Another draw

May 01, 2014 - 08:10:32 | Shimaaz Ali
National team players during a training session in Male'.

Male’, MALDIVES – Maldives national team’s third friendly game in Thailand training camp against Customs United FC ended with a 1-1 draw.

Maziya’s striker Asadhulla Abdulla broke the deadlock in the 10th minute but in the second half Customs United FC leveled the game. National team coach Drago used the reserve players in this match to give them the chance to play competitive games.

Maldives won the first game against Osotspa by 1-0 and the second game against Thai U19 ended with a 1-1 draw. Ashfaq scored the goal against Osotspa while Mohamed Umair scored against Thai U19.

Maldives team will be back on Sunday.

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Ahan on May 01
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Seriously????????????? Playing against a 3rd division team and ended up with JUST a draw???!!! C'mon are we preparing for a Kammathee Cup????? :::: BTW if i am not wrong Suzain told TWO teams from thai premier league (1st division) and Thai u23.
Fan on May 02
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Another draw, another camp in Thailand for another tournament. We can put a lot of ANOTHER in front of what national team has been forced to go through. Because FAM inadvertently or by design, see this as yet another tournament.
Imma on May 02
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In a way, I understand the way the matches were arranged. It allowed the coach to test his whole squad, and also prepared the players to play every other day, as they will be doing so during the tournament. However, serious questions need to be asked over FAM's comments prior to the training camp. The teams we faced were not the sort of teams Suzain boasted about, and definitely nowhere near the quality of the teams we would be facing in the tournament. And what is the deal with Thailand? If costs were such an issue, why not camp in India? I'm sure that I-League clubs are more than willing to play their full teams against our national team for half the price. One more thing; do we have any friendlies arranged before the tournament? Because Suzain did say that we will be playing one friendly in Male' and one in Addu against national teams. If so, who are they?
footballmad on May 03
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I do agree too that there needs to be two more matches, at least one against a good team at the National Stadium to get back to feeling the way it really is on the day. 5 matches is what the coach wanted and he should be provided that opportunity, especially now that he has had the chance to assess the skills of all the players in the 3 matches played sop far.
ahmed on May 04
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This Maldives football team going to lose the cup and that is 75% information i get so upto today. come home. FAM of Maldives you are too week. i think we need to change FAM and rule of FAM.

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