Kadenge Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Corbin Ong starts for Go Ahead Eagles in the Eerste. They are leading Fortuna Sittard 1-0 at the half. This move to Malaysia sucks. Hope for his sake that it is for big bucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 If he signed with the Champions of the league perhaps the move is not so bad. He may get into Asian Champions League games with that club and may earn a move to a bigger Asian league. If he can parlay this into a move to the J-league, K-league or Chinese Super league, it will be worth it (tho I don't see a future Chinese move with their cut back on foreigners). I would prefer him to stay in Holland as I think he would/could make it to the Errdivisie. Just trying to see the positives here with this move, as it will happen whether we like it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 I've attended a few matches between Malaysian and Hong Kong teams in the second tier of the Asian League - the standard sucks. Not much more to say than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheatsheafSK Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Go Ahead just fired their trainer Vlemmings and it seems that the players were taken by surprise: https://www.fcupdate.nl/voetbalnieuws/325330/ontslag-vlemmings-verrast-spelers-van-go-ahead-eagles/ [Google translate]Go Ahead Eagles, which relegated from the Eredivisie, has so far had a very disappointing season in the Jupiler League. Kowet is in 14th place after sixteen matches. "It's not right that Leon is only to blame, at the moment you could fire the whole team, it's that bad, I feel guilty about the trainer, I just sent him a message and thank you for the pleasant and instructive cooperation. " This suggests there is dysfunction at all levels, particularly in the management. If players were not happy, but not necessarily unhappy with the manager, this could have influenced Corbin-Ong's willingness to jump at a new opportunity elsewhere. Fussball_eh and jpg75 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Called up by Malaysia.. so he's gone? Can't say I'm too upset but it's just strange he would give up so soon. https://t.co/cyi7YxWYzF ray, Bison44 and johnyb 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
to70 Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 He ain't going to be going to the WC any time soon. johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Club Linesman Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 Even Malaysia plays two games during this window. The CSA really needs to get their shit together and figure out how to get the men’s team two games a window. Bring on the League of Nations and let’s play 2 even if we are only scheduled for one! Bbeto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Too bad. I thought he showed potential against Scotland. That being said, he is playing there and they could probably use him more than us and he'll probably get more caps with Malaysia in the long run. Good luck to him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Also, according to that article is seems like this would not cap-tie him. So no risk for him, perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadenge Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 42 minutes ago, Obinna said: Too bad. I thought he showed potential against Scotland. That being said, he is playing there and they could probably use him more than us and he'll probably get more caps with Malaysia in the long run. Good luck to him! I thought he looked good as well. For someone who started consistently in B3 and then in the Dutch 2nd div. you would think he could do much better than be playing in the Malaysian league. Perhaps he received a lucrative contract? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_M Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Goodbye. 1 asian cup qualification in last 35+ years and didn't qualify for 2019 CNMNTPERUELIGIBLE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 2 hours ago, Club Linesman said: Even Malaysia plays two games during this window. The CSA really needs to get their shit together and figure out how to get the men’s team two games a window. Bring on the League of Nations and let’s play 2 even if we are only scheduled for one! I am starting to wonder if the 1 friendly windows might be a bit about FIFA ranking manipulation. Our ranking has inched up the last few months I believe (don’t have the numbers in front of me right now). The World Cup Qualifying draw usually takes the rankings from right after the previous World Cup, so if playing fewer games would help our ranking now, that *might be able to help us a bit. Hard to say though since we don’t know how Qualifying will work, but the CSA probably know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northvansteve Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I don't begrudge him this. He was called up once and played as a sub. Thought he looked ok. But clearly not in the picture for Canada any time soon. He would be behind De Jong, Adekugbe, Morgan, Awuah, possibly some of the USL players like Tissot, and there are some decent fullbacks coming up thru the system like Boakye and Ruby. hamiltonfan and xman14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingback6 Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 This is a shame. Thought he looked serviceable in his appearance for us. But moving to Malysia put him off of our depth chart for sure. Probably just wants to play. And he will be a starter for Malaysia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 (edited) This is very curious - Malaysia does not allow dual citizens. They are strict with this. If he has a Malaysian passport now, he doesn't have a British or Canadian. I suspect this is a Tam N situation - not a citizen but playing in friendlies, despite the article calling him naturalised. If he is naturalised, he isn't Canadian anymore. Full stop. I also don't see how he can play for Malaysia regardless - he played for Canada prior to "naturalising" with Malaysia. So he should be ineligible to represent them, and only eligible for England since he had the citizenship prior to his match with Canada. F--king FIFA and their unequal and inconsistent application of the rules. * For what it's worth, looking at the Malaysian law he would become a citizen by "registration" and not "naturalisation". Edited March 20, 2018 by BCM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Another thing for guys like him and Emery Welshman before him is that if/when CPL gets going I think there is a decent chance their domestic rules will be based on CMNT eligibility, like it is in the Voyageurs Cup. So if you cap tie yourself to a different nation, CPL will consider you an international, which would make it harder to come “home” to play. Stryker911, jpg75 and deschamp86 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 2 hours ago, BCM1555362349 said: This is very curious - Malaysia does not allow dual citizens. They are strict with this. If he has a Malaysian passport now, he doesn't have a British or Canadian. I suspect this is a Tam N situation - not a citizen but playing in friendlies, despite the article calling him naturalised. If he is naturalised, he isn't Canadian anymore. Full stop. I also don't see how he can play for Malaysia regardless - he played for Canada prior to "naturalising" with Malaysia. So he should be ineligible to represent them, and only eligible for England since he had the citizenship prior to his match with Canada. F--king FIFA and their unequal and inconsistent application of the rules. * For what it's worth, looking at the Malaysian law he would become a citizen by "registration" and not "naturalisation". His mother is Malaysian so he’s eligible, he wasn’t naturalized. If his mother wasn’t Malaysian he would have been ineligible for anyone but England after he was capped by us, you’re right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WheatsheafSK Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I don't get this move. I feel like I need to know more about his motivation. Six-months ago he is getting good minutes for one of the larger teams in Ereste divisie. Then he signs with a Malaysian team and transfers out of the Netherlands. On top of that a year ago he gets his first cap for Canada, and now he is suiting up for Malaysia. All seems like a rather swift trajectory shift. It would make more sense to me if he gave up on soccer, pursued something totally different. Instead he sticks with soccer, but just as he is pushing up the soccer hierarchy both in Europe and for his national team, he does a 90 degree turn. johnyb and deschamp86 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zem Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 7 hours ago, Kent said: Another thing for guys like him and Emery Welshman before him is that if/when CPL gets going I think there is a decent chance their domestic rules will be based on CMNT eligibility, like it is in the Voyageurs Cup. So if you cap tie yourself to a different nation, CPL will consider you an international, which would make it harder to come “home” to play. It would be increbidly stupid if they did that, and I doubt they will since the two competitions have different administrations. Also, since the VC is a cup competition, even having childish rules like that is sort of okay because the player requirement is extremely small, but doing that in a league causes serious problems. For one, it means that if a Candian player in the CPL is capped by another nation mid-season, suddenly that player's club has an extra foreign player and are violating the league's roster rules. The other big reason is that it doesn't actually do anything other than limit the league's domestic player pool and pointlessly blackmail dozens of players who don't have a chance of playing for Canada anyway. The Ballou Tablas, Ricardo Ferreiras and Asmir Begovics of the world don't care about this rule. The players who are affected by this are guys like Kevin Chan-Yu-Tin, Emery Welshman and Adrian Butters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnyb Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 19 hours ago, Northvansteve said: I don't begrudge him this. He was called up once and played as a sub. Thought he looked ok. But clearly not in the picture for Canada any time soon. He would be behind De Jong, Adekugbe, Morgan, Awuah, possibly some of the USL players like Tissot, and there are some decent fullbacks coming up thru the system like Boakye and Ruby. Agree that I'm not upset but I had him ahead of a lot of the players you mentioned. Like a lot of guys on here I'm just very confused. jpg75 and Club Linesman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzAndSting Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 13 hours ago, WheatsheafSK said: I don't get this move. I feel like I need to know more about his motivation. Six-months ago he is getting good minutes for one of the larger teams in Ereste divisie. Then he signs with a Malaysian team and transfers out of the Netherlands. On top of that a year ago he gets his first cap for Canada, and now he is suiting up for Malaysia. All seems like a rather swift trajectory shift. It would make more sense to me if he gave up on soccer, pursued something totally different. Instead he sticks with soccer, but just as he is pushing up the soccer hierarchy both in Europe and for his national team, he does a 90 degree turn. Perhaps his decision to move to Malaysia wasn't soccer related and seeing where this would put him he's decided to pursue a NT career with his new country. Obinna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 I suspect him playing with the Malaysian national team might have been part of getting a financially rewarding deal with his Malaysian club. Let's not forget that until a year and a half ago he was a career German 4th division player. In his breakout season of 2016/17 he became a starter on the worst team in the German 3rd division which was a pretty small club and likely paying a low salary despite a few surprising years in the 2nd Bundesliga (and now are in 4th division which is an appropriate level for a club of their size). While Go Ahead Eagles have some name recognition, they are currently a lower table 2nd tier team and probably not paying a very high salary. He is soon to be 27 and probably has not made a lot of money in his career so far. Also it is to be noted that after the relegation of FSV he did not sign with a better more financially wealthy 3rd division team. Even with our current weakness at the back he was unlikely to become more than a depth player at the national team level with some up and coming players likely to push him even out of that role in the near future. I suspect that if he realistically looked at his career and prospects while getting offered a financially rewarding deal in Malaysia with expectations of playing on their national team it would be a very attractive offer for him to make some money in his career instead of being a moderately paid lower division player in Europe and a fringe Canadian national team player. Obinna, soccer.shocker, Yohan and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
to70 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Didn't play in the vs Mongolia although it was predicted prior to the game that he would be in the starting line-up http://www.foxsportsasia.com/football/asian-football/822537/malaysia-11-games-without-victory-after-mongolia-draw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JamboAl Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Scored a goal in today’s 2022 World Cup Qualifier against Timor-Leste. Yes, it’s started folks! Obinna and Addona 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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