Southeast Asian Games: Indonesia footballers reach final

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s footballers set up a mouth-watering final clash with Malaysia as the hosts’ gold medal spree at the Southeast Asian Games continued unabated. Indonesia were on 138 golds in a bulging 350 medal tally with three days of competition remaining, two golds short of what the Games’ organisers have calculated they need for their first overall win since 1997. But the gold most coveted by fans is the under-23 football event, which Indonesia will contest with their arch-rivals Malaysia tomorrow after beating Vietnam 2-0 in the semi-finals.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 20^th, 2011.