Sporting Afrique FC

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Sporting Afrique
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Full nameSporting Afrique Football Club
Nickname(s)The Flamingos
Founded2006
Dissolved2007
Ground Yishun Stadium
Yishun, Singapore
Capacity3,400
Chairman Collin Chee
ManagerR. Balasubramaniam
League S.League
2006 S.League, 9th of 11

Sporting Afrique Football Club was a professional football club which played in Singapore's S.League in 2006. The team was made of players from an African descent. The squad consisted of young players from Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya and Ghana. [1] In allowing Sporting Afrique to join the league, the S.League hoped that their involvement would make the competition more exciting, and possibly unearth some good players who might be able to change their nationality to Singaporean and thus play for the Singapore national football team in the future.

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History

Sporting Afrique started off their debut 2006 S.League season in a 2-1 win over Woodlands Wellington in their first home match at the sold-out crowd, Yishun Stadium. The stadium was packed of African continent supporters. The club finished in 9th place out of 11 teams in the S.League in the first and last season.

Controversies

Sporting Afrique were involved in a number of off-field controversies, and their application to participate in the S.League again in 2007 was rejected by the FAS. [2] The club played its home games at the Yishun Stadium.


In June 2006, it was reported that, while the players had been promised monthly salaries of S$1,600 (~US$1,000), they only received S$100 a month (~US$60), as S$700 was deducted for food (reportedly a monotonous diet of rice and chicken), and S$800 for accommodation despite all 22 team members living 5 or 6 per room in the same house in an area where a typical house rental was around S$3,000. They barely can go anywhere other than the stadium as they find travel is too expensive and their contracts also forbade talking to the media, but team members contacted the BBC anonymously, drawing international attention. Club president Collin Chee, who had initially claimed to be "not short-changing any of them", eventually backed down and agreed to raise their salaries to S$600, with performance bonuses and better housing. [3] It was revealed that one of the players, Jacques Ngo’o turned down a bribe of more than $5,000 ahead of an S-League match. Despite the attempted bribe which amounted to several times the player monthly salary, the player’s decision to displayed the honesty and integrity still show the good hearted among the African player's. [4]

Seasons

SeasonPosPWDLFAPts Singapore Cup
2006 9th305916365824Preliminary

Notable players

All the players that leave the club following the club dissolvement

Flag of Cameroon.svg  Cameroon


Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana


Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya


Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria


Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore

Coach

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References

  1. ↑ Rutherford, Peter (19 January 2007). "Sporting gives Africans chance to shine in S'pore". Reuters. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  2. ↑ Tan, Kenneth (10 March 2019). "Turning full circle: Family man Collin Chee opens up on abrupt departure from Singapore football and coming back with Dads for Life". JupiterFutbol. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "Hopes dashed in Singapore". BBC Sports. 14 June 2006. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  4. ↑ Thomas Biketi’s Sporting Afrique set to disband Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
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