The Cambodia women’s national under-20 football team, who have been training at the Bati Youth Football Academy since February 19, is increasingly focused on qualifying for the AFC U20 Women’s Asian Cup qualifiers round 1 in Group G, which will be held on March 8. Due to the 2024 AFC U20 Women’s Asian Cup’s first round matching for Group G, Cambodia will be the host. Prak Vuthy, the coach of the Cambodian team, set the goal of going to the second round, as the women’s team face strong competition in this important tournament. “The potential and ability of our women’s…
Author: Chhorn Norn
Cambodian mountain bikers have shown their strength ahead of the 32nd SEA Games, after claiming eight awards from two events in Thailand. The event in Phichit province, Thailand was their last international hit out before the May games, which are being held on their home soil for the first historic time. The Royal Cup Thailand MTB National Championship and the 2023 Thailand Mountain Bike Cup 1 both provided an excellent rehearsal ahead of the games. “These two international events were a great opportunity for our cyclists to strengthening their capacities and spirits,” said Nou Chamroeun, secretary-general of the Cambodia Cycling…
Flying Bike Super Cross 2023, the Kingdom’s premier dirt biking event, has returned from a long hiatus to thrill the crowds. With almost 50 athletes from as far afield as the US and Europe – as well as Cambodia and its neighbours – the March 5 event saw some spectacular racing. The event, held at Prek Leap commune in the capital’s Chroy Changvar, was divided into several classes, in order to guarantee closer racing. Pierre Yves Catry, the founder of Flying Bikes, explained that the different categories meant less mismatches. It also meant the crowd got to witness some very…
Led by Minister of Tourism and CAMSOC permanent vice-president Thong Khon, the Cambodia SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC) held a March 4 meeting with Cambodian ambassadors from across South East Asia to discuss the torch lighting ceremony of the upcoming May 32nd SEA Games. CAMSOC secretary-general Vath Chamroeun said the meeting aimed to organise the torch lighting ceremony in each of the nations in the region where Cambodia maintains an embassy. “The ambassadors exchanged opinions and provided details of how a ceremony could be conducted in their locales. Thanks to their input, Thong Khon was able to issue recommendations for…
Cambodia’s national team athletes across all sports who are scheduled to compete in the 32nd SEA Games in May will not be allowed to apply for leave during the upcoming traditional Khmer New Year holiday. Instead, they will be expected to focus on training to prepare for the regional biennial multi-sports event, hosted by the Kingdom for the first time in history. At the awards ceremony for coaches and petanque players who won bronze medals from the World Championship Single, Doubles and Mixed Doubles matches 2022 in Denmark on March 1, Ouk Sithicheat, director-general of sports at the education ministry,…
Vath Chamroeun, secretary-general of the national organising committees for SEA Games and ASEAN Para Games (CAMSOC-CAMAPGOC), denied that Cambodia set a price for the live broadcasting rights of the upcoming biennial multi-sports events, as reported by a Thai media outlet. Chamroeun made the remarks during a March 1 working group meeting to organise the International Broadcasting Centre for the production and promotion of the two events. He informed the working group that recently a Thai network had reported that CAMSOC had set a high figure for the sale of the live broadcast rights of the huge regional sporting event. “CAMSOC…
The national organising committees of the 32nd SEA Games and 12th ASEAN Para Games (CAMSOC-CAMAPGOC) said delays to the construction of the sport village that will house visiting athletes are no longer a concern. WorldBridge Sport Village, the developers who are building the village, has given assurances that the project will be completed by March 31. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Tea Banh, who serves as president of CAMSOC-CAMAPGOC, inspected the site on February28 and received the commitment of WorldBridge CEO Sear Rithy that the target would be met. The commitment followed Tea Banh’s warnings that construction…
President of the E-Sports Federation of Cambodia (EFC) Chea Chanboribo expressed concerns over the development of esports in the Kingdom, saying the sport still faces many challenges despite its inclusion in the upcoming 32nd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games 2023 in Cambodia. He said that although it is recognised by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC), and has become a full member of the E-Sports Federations of Asia, ASEAN and the World, there is a lack of understanding about the division between esports and certain online gambling practices. If not managed carefully,…
Prime Minister Hun Sen offered praise to former general manger of the national football team Keisuke Honda, who has taken on the challenge of steering the U22 side through the upcoming SEA games. He focused on the team culture the former Japanese star built, which holds that the team ranks above the individual, regardless of the fame of any one player. The prime minister, who was both a volleyball and football player in the past, considers a structured team performance the most important element of both sports, but especially football, where a coherent attack and defence are equally as important.…
Prum Samnang became the first Cambodian boxer to win twice in a row at the Thai Fight event after stopping Russian Firdavszhon Naiimov in the first round of the February 26 event. On the same night, Thoeun Theara – who last December claimed a title at the event, making him the first Cambodian to do so –knocked out the Moroccan boxer Oussama El Kouche. As the fame of Samnang and Theara grows, so too does the reputation of Kun Khmer in the world of combat sports. Samnang took less than two minutes to stop Naiimov in the first round of…