lowlander Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, dyslexic nam said: For someone with resources - pretty damn good I suspect. Food would be amazing, fascinating cultural history, world class beaches, etc. Not sure I would move there forever but for a few years in my 30s? Hells yeah. I lived there for 5 years until 2018, with family, we loved it. Great culture, great food, great base to travel the country and region. Not a good political situation but a great experience. Edited August 8, 2022 by lowlander dyslexic nam, johnyb, nolando and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearcatSA Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 I really liked Cambodia for the two weeks we travelled around there in 2016. I'd go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GasPed Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 On 8/7/2022 at 12:47 AM, Unnamed Trialist said: Remember when Issey Nakajima-Farran was tearing it up in Malaysia, which is higher level than Cambodia, and then he was just a competent CPL player. So Cambodia must be even lower than CPL. A partly relevant anecdote - my son was in Cambodia a number of years ago with Samaritan's Purse installing water filters in villages. At one stop, some kids noticed he had a soccer ball and invited him and his missions team to a pick-up game after dinner. When they showed up at the field, they were mortified to find the entire town had showed up, including the village team in their full kit. So it was Village vs. Samaritan's Purse (team of 8, some of whom had barely played soccer) in front of a roaring (ok, talking and smiling) crowd of 200. But, after 30 minutes, they only lost 3 -1. (To be fair, if it had gone longer the entire SP team would've expired from heat stroke.) My son's observation was this - the Cambodians were small and quick but it was clear they had not played any proper organized soccer at all. Their passing was poor to non-existent and they had some individual tricks/skills but no real idea of formations, structure, tactics, anything really. He thought he was quite easily the best player on the pitch - an athletic 19 year old, played club and high school soccer but that's it. The point of it all being that soccer is literally played everywhere on the globe, but many places still lack the infrastructure/training to produce quality players. Cambodia is one of them. lowlander, cornerkick, yothat2 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 hour ago, GasPed said: A partly relevant anecdote - my son was in Cambodia a number of years ago with Samaritan's Purse installing water filters in villages. At one stop, some kids noticed he had a soccer ball and invited him and his missions team to a pick-up game after dinner. When they showed up at the field, they were mortified to find the entire town had showed up, including the village team in their full kit. So it was Village vs. Samaritan's Purse (team of 8, some of whom had barely played soccer) in front of a roaring (ok, talking and smiling) crowd of 200. But, after 30 minutes, they only lost 3 -1. (To be fair, if it had gone longer the entire SP team would've expired from heat stroke.) My son's observation was this - the Cambodians were small and quick but it was clear they had not played any proper organized soccer at all. Their passing was poor to non-existent and they had some individual tricks/skills but no real idea of formations, structure, tactics, anything really. He thought he was quite easily the best player on the pitch - an athletic 19 year old, played club and high school soccer but that's it. The point of it all being that soccer is literally played everywhere on the globe, but many places still lack the infrastructure/training to produce quality players. Cambodia is one of them. You have to figure that they are going to go nuts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, in the upcoming years. Not sure when, say maybe 15 years; but if you look at demographics, you'd have to think that Asia is going to be absolutely terrible to try to qualify from for a WC, even if expanded. The Real Marc and GasPed 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 Svay Rieng has gone from having a 6 point gap to collecting 1 of the last 15 points and falling 3 points behind his old club and also level on points with 3rd place. Can still finish first though, but the current slide suggests maybe not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Top scorer this season with 25 goals and team of the year honours. https://fb.watch/hgjxZGyNNL/?mibextid=qC1gEa Fresh Prince of MTL, Ruffian, Xavier. and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Seeing that picture above I had to do a double take. This is (at least?) his second time playing in a league called CPL. The Real Marc, An Observer, sebdeserio and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaFan123 Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 I can’t imagine the quality of a league where 33 year old Haber scores 25 goals. Good for him though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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InglewoodJack Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 I think more leagues should put fake snow in their highlight videos. BradMack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Signed a 2 year extension Ruffian, Obinna and johnyb 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradMack Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 On 12/8/2022 at 9:11 AM, CanadaFan123 said: I can’t imagine the quality of a league where 33 year old Haber scores 25 goals. Good for him though! fine wine CanadaFan123 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Marc Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 What an adventure. Nice shirt too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearcatSA Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 AFTN or another podcast should get him on for an interview to talk about his experiences in that part of the world (or maybe it has been done?). You could probably do a Dave Bidini Tropic of Hockey style book or documentary collectively profiling Canadian players plying their pro soccer careers in unheralded places of the world. (Maybe that has already been done, too; I'm not up to speed on my soccer reading of late.) nolando and Onelessstar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Marc Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Would have to get Tom Rajabzadeh who lived in the stadium in his third tier Austrian team. http://www.iranian.com/News/Jan99/soccer.html BearcatSA and ray 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Still scoring, 3 on the weekend https://youtu.be/HxfBEeipjeM Metro, K Edgar, johnyb and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacbru Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 He's a giant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalTransport Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 31 minutes ago, jordan said: Still scoring, 3 on the weekend https://youtu.be/HxfBEeipjeM Too bad he didn't have this striking brilliance for Benito Floro. We would be World Cup Champs now 😜 jordan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 3 goals is great but honestly based on those highlights he really should have had 7 “today goals”. Cute stadium and some very enthusiastic support. Happy for him. Bikerack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvroArrow Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 14 hours ago, jordan said: Still scoring, 3 on the weekend https://youtu.be/HxfBEeipjeM He looks like he is at least a foot taller than everyone else on the field. Makes winning those headers a little bit easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearcatSA Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Only he, Jackson, and Begovič from that 2007 U20 World Cup team are still playing in the pro game, I believe. The Real Marc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Highlights from last game and his goal at the end https://www.facebook.com/share/v/KF7ztx3MoydMCPRf/?mibextid=KsPBc6 Bertuzzi44, lowlander, Obinna and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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