Huynh Due cancels deal with Persija<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The contract between Jakarta-based soccer club Persija and
\nVietnamese star Le Huynh Duc has come to nothing as he has been
\ndenied a permit to leave the country, the club announced here on
\nWednesday.<\/p>\n
\"We made a one-year contract with Le during the Tiger Cup.
\nRenumeration was already agreed, but he told us that he could not
\nproceed because the Vietnamese Police Headquarters would not
\nrelease him from duty,\" Persija manager Aang Hamid Suganda told
\nThe Jakarta Post here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old striker is an active police officer with the
\nrank of major, currently playing with Ho Chi Minh City-based
\nAsian Bank.<\/p>\n
He scored six goals and led Vietnam to third place in the
\nrecently concluded Tiger Cup, a biennial soccer competition among
\nthe Southeast Asian nations, in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The Vietnamese team captain was to have been paired in the
\nIndonesian league matches, which will kick off on Sunday, with
\nstriker Bambang Pamungkas, who came out as top scorer at the
\nTiger Cup with eight goals.<\/p>\n
\"It's deplorable that he has been unable to join us here,
\nbecause it already looked certain that he would be playing here
\nwhen we made the deal,\" Aang said.<\/p>\n
The failure to recruit Le has prompted Persija to turn to
\nEmanuel Ayub, a 20-year-old striker from Cameroon.<\/p>\n
\"He was a former Cameroon junior team member and has proven to
\nbe a prolific striker,\" Aang said, adding that the player had
\nalready joined the team for a training session.<\/p>\n
Ayub was top scorer in the 2002 Vietnamese league with 20
\ngoals, but Aang failed to mention which club Ayub played for.<\/p>\n
The recruitment of Ayub, who will be paired with Bambang, Andi
\nSupendi and Nova Zainal in the striking line, makes a foursome of
\nthe foreign recruits to Persija, the other three being Mbeng Jean
\n(Cameroon), Antonio Claudio (Brazil) and Sasho Dimitrov
\n(Bulgaria).<\/p>\n
This has reached the limit set by the Soccer Association of
\nIndonesian (PSSI), which allows only four foreign players for
\neach club.<\/p>\n
Coached by Bulgarian Atanas Georgiev, Persija, which won the
\n2001 league, will kick off its campaign with a derby match
\nagainst Persijatim of East Jakarta at Lebak Bulus Stadium in
\nSouth Jakarta on Sunday.<\/p>",
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