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        "msgid": "ri-booters-to-play-with-china-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-11-03 00:00:00",
        "title": "RI booters to play with China",
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        "summary": "RI booters to play with China JAKARTA (JP): National soccer players will take some valuable lessons in Beijing on Wednesday in the run-up to their campaign at the 18th Southeast Asian Games in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Secretary-general of the national team committee, Endro Sumardjo, told reporters on Wednesday night that the Chinese Football Association had confirmed that its Olympic team would entertain the Indonesians in a friendly match. It is not clear where the match will take place.",
        "content": "<p>RI booters to play with China<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): National soccer players will take some valuable<br>\nlessons in Beijing on Wednesday in the run-up to their campaign<br>\nat the 18th Southeast Asian Games in Chiang Mai, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary-general of the national team committee, Endro<br>\nSumardjo, told reporters on Wednesday night that the Chinese<br>\nFootball Association had confirmed that its Olympic team would<br>\nentertain the Indonesians in a friendly match. It is not clear<br>\nwhere the match will take place.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's good to play a team as strong as China. They will show<br>\nus what our weaknesses are during the match,\" Endro said.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be the first out of three warm-up matches<br>\nagainst foreign teams proposed by the All-Indonesia Football<br>\nAssociation before the SEA Games in December.<\/p>\n<p>China is one of eight Asian teams which will be vying for two<br>\nberths to the 1996 Olympic Games soccer competition. Indonesia,<br>\nrepresented by its junior players who have just finished their<br>\ntwo-year stint in Italy, crashed out of first round of the<br>\nOlympic qualifying stage.<\/p>\n<p>Endro said that the national SEA Games team will bring all its<br>\n20 players to China. The squad includes six Italian trainees who<br>\nalso failed in the Olympic qualifying round.<\/p>\n<p>The national soccer body sprang some surprises when it<br>\nannounced the team line-up on Sunday, dropping premier league top<br>\nscorer Peri Sandria and two of three players from the league<br>\nchampion team Persib Bandung. Persib's fast-running winger Kekey<br>\nZakaria was among those dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Yadi Mulyadi is the only Persib player left on the<br>\nlist. The soccer body will have to axe two more players by Nov.<br>\n15 as required by the SEA Games Organizing Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Yadi will rejoin the team on Monday after helping his side<br>\nreach the Asia Club Championship quarterfinals over the weekend.<br>\nPersib beat Pasay City 3-1 in Manila, the Philippines, for a 5-2<br>\naggregate win.<\/p>\n<p>Persib is now traveling to Brunei for two friendly matches. It<br>\nheld the Brunei SEA Games team 1-1 on Wednesday and will meet the<br>\nsame side again tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The Bandung team will miss Yadi in the Asia Club<br>\nquarterfinals, scheduled to take place from Nov. 26 to Nov. 30.<br>\nThe Asian Football Confederation has yet to announce the venue<br>\nfor the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Romano Matte's men won all their four warm-up matches in East<br>\nJava and East Kalimantan. They will shortly move their home base<br>\nfrom Gresik, East Java, to Sukabumi, West Java to acclimatize<br>\nthemselves to the cool weather expected in Chiang Mai during the<br>\nGames. (amd)<\/p>",
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