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Gamba Osaka midfielder Yasuhito Endo has been named AFC Player of the Year, but it was South Korea's night at the Asian football awards in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

DOHA: A high ranking delegation of the Qatar 2022 Bid Committee will attend the AFC Annual Awards Night 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to take part in the prestigious event today .

Get in: Japan's team, including Shinji Okazaki , Yuki Abe and Shunsuke Nakamura, were first to qualify for World Cup 2010 Japan's World Cup record: 1998 1st rd, 2002 2nd rd, 2006 1st rd.

SYDNEY: Two Japan players have been nominated for this year's Asian Player of the Year award after their national side were surprisingly overlooked for the final nominations for the team of the year award.

Milan Macala's Bahrain lineup took its World Cup elimination frustrations out on Yemen on Wednesday, rebounding from a weekend loss to New Zealand with a 4-0 Asian Cup qualifying victory.

Making reservations: Anvar Gafurov and Bakhodir Nasimov scored either side of half-time for the Uzbeks.

Japan remain firmly on course for the 2011 Asian Cup after they overcame a spirited Hong Kong 4-0 in a one-sided qualifier.

Shunsuke Nakamura is expected to lead a star-studded Japan side against Hong Kong tonight as the two teams go head-to-head in their 2011 Asian Cup qualifying match at Hong Kong Stadium.

Japan's football chief has raised the decibel level against vuvuzelas -- long, plastic trumpets used by South African supporters -- at next year's World Cup.

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Irana s Hadi Aghily is a candidate to win the AFC Player of the Year 2009 award, according to AFC.

Bafana Bafana are prepared to put their bodies on the line to beat Japan when the countries meet in a friendly international at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Saturday.

JAPANESE full-back Yuto Nagatomo is back on Celtic's radar, increasing the possibility of a January bid for the man recommended by international team-mate Shunsuke Nakamura.

Kawasaki Frontale badly needed a win on Sunday to wash away the events of the past week, when they were handed a public grilling over their attitude after losing to FC Tokyo in the Nabisco Cup final.

NAGOYA : Two-time champions Al Ittihad moved within a match of regaining their AFC Champions League title yesterday when they defeated Japan's Nagoya Grampus 2-1 in the semi-finals. The Saudi giants, who won the tournament in 2004 and 2005, built on their emphatic 6-2 first-leg victory for an 8-3 aggregate win with Saleh Al-Saqri and Amine Chermiti ...

Shimizu S-Pulse missed the chance to climb to the top of the J.League as they slumped to a 2-1 defeat at Oita Trinita .

East meets west at the semi-final stage of the Asian Champions League with teams from the opposite ends of the continent fighting it out to make the final which will be held in Tokyo on November 7. The first leg of the penultimate round takes place tonight as Nagoya Grampus of Japan take on Saudi Arabia's Al-Ittihad, the first ever meeting between ...

The Socceroos will head to next year's World Cup boasting an attacking weapon more potent than many of world's top strikers in midfielder Tim Cahill.

South Korea's Pohang Steelers are determined to make the most of home advantage in their AFC Champions League semi-final on Wednesday, as are Saudi giants Al Ittihad who host Japan's Nagoya Grampus.

Europeans and South Americans will wage proxy football battles in the Asian Champions League semifinals.