{"id":17510,"date":"2025-12-07T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=17510"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:02:42","slug":"young-lions-head-coach-firdaus-apologises-to-fans-praises-teams-effort-after-timor-leste-sea-games-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=17510","title":{"rendered":"Young Lions head coach Firdaus apologises to fans, praises team&#8217;s effort after Timor-Leste SEA Games loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Firdaus&#8217; men led through Amir Syafiz, but were eventually sunk by a<\/span> goals from Vabio Canavaro, Anizo Correia and Olagar Xavier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the blast of the full-time whistle, some of the Young Lions collapsed to the ground, while others were in tears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We started with a goal and we didn&#8217;t build on it,&#8221; said Firdaus,<strong> <\/strong>who pointed out that his side conceded three &#8220;very easy goals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It became very difficult for us in the second half, we had to take more risks. We had some very good chances which we should have converted, we didn&#8217;t take it. But<strong> <\/strong>all in all, I&#8217;m very happy with the effort of the players. It&#8217;s all about (recuperating) for the next game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next game for the Young Lions would be a tough one. On Dec 11, they face hosts Thailand, which have already thrashed Timor-Leste 6-1 in their opening game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The three countries were drawn in Group A following Cambodia\u2019s withdrawal from the competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/sea-games-bangkok-team-singapore-football-firdaus-kassim-timor-leste-elimination-5565586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firdaus&#8217; men led through Amir Syafiz, but were eventually sunk by a goals from Vabio Canavaro, Anizo Correia and Olagar Xavier.\u00a0 After the blast of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}