The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has sanctioned the Macau Football Association (MFA) for failing to play the second leg of their first-round match against Sri Lanka in the Asian Football Association’s FIFA World Cup 2022 preliminary competition.
Goncalo César de Sá
Founder and Editor-at-Large
Founder of Macao News, Gonçalo has been a journalist since 1973. Born in Mozambique, he was a lieutenant in the Portuguese army during the African country’s colonial war before working in its Ministry of Information during the period before independence. He later worked for companies like the BBC, Agence France-Presse, RTHK and Lusa Portuguese News Agency and has lived across the world, settling in Macao. Since 2009, Gonçalo, who has made video documentaries on the Portuguese in Asia as well as books on Macao and Japan, has been director of Macaulink Media Group. His best memories after such a varied career? “The 70s in Macao,” he says. “Having breakfast at the Caravela Hotel, facing the river.”
The Macau Football Association (MFA) reaffirmed during a special press conference Sunday that it has decided not to send its team to play Sri Lanka tomorrow in the second leg of a 2022 World Cup qualifying first-round clash.
This year’s Macao International Dragon Boat Races grand final in the Open Category (500 meters) was won by the Thailand National Team in the men’s category and China’s NanHai Jiujiang in the women’s category.
The FIVB Women’s Volleyball Nations League (VNL) Macao 2019 ended Thursday with a China victory over Korea.
The German female racing car driver Sophia Flörsch, who survived a horror crash during the Formula 3 Grand Prix race of the 65th Macau Grand Prix on November 18, was discharged from hospital Monday and returned to her country late last night, the local authorities announced.
German F3 driver Sophia Flörsch underwent a seven-hour surgery on her cervical vertebrae Monday after her horror crash at the Macau Grand Prix on Sunday, tweeting in German last night that the surgery went well without complication.
Red Bull Junior Dan Ticktum took victory in the Macau Grand Prix for the second successive year after a crash-marred Formula 3 race.
The Macau Grand Prix was brought to a standstill during a Formula 3 race when German driver Sophia Floersch went flying through the air after a high-speed crash.
The Formula 3 champions of Europe Mick Schumacher and All-Japan Formula 3 Championship title winner Sho Tsuboi , as well as last year’s winner head a top-quality entry list for the Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix – FIA F3 World Cup to take place in Macau on November.
Athletes Sou Soi Lam and Wong Sok I Friday won two more medals for Macau in Karate during the Asian Games 2018, in Jakarta.Asian Games
The Macau athlete Li Yi won Wednesday the silver medal in the women's Wushu Changquan, in the Asian Games 2018, in Jakarta, Indonesia
Macau´s Huang Junhua (C) won Tuesday the Gold medal for Men's Nanquan & Nangun All-Round match during the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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