RI eyes SEAG soccer gold

RI eyes SEAG soccer gold

JAKARTA (JP): Chairman of the National Sports Council Wismoyo
Arismunandar said yesterday that the soccer gold is an imperative
at the 19th Southeast Asian Games here next year.

Wismoyo told the new board of the Indonesian Soccer
Association yesterday that the national team ought to be smarting
from a string of upsets in the 18th Games last December.

"These failures should motivate us to bounce back," Wismoyo
said. Indonesia was denied a place at the SEA Games semifinals
when it was ignominiously tipped out with a 0-1 defeat to
Vietnam.

Wismoyo swore in reelected soccer chief Azwar Anas and his
staff yesterday. Azwar, the State Minister of People's Welfare,
won his second four-year term at a national congress last month.
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