Tiger Street Football Singapore: The internationals on show at the Bay

This weekend marks the sixth installment of this year’s Tiger Street Football tournament and the Singaporean leg will be no different from the one’s before in Cambodia, Australia, Malaysia, Mongolia and China.

Local teams will battle it out in the one-of-a-kind Tiger Cage to earn the right of being called the Tiger Street Football Champions.

On the second day of the event, international teams will join the fray and stake their claim for the big prize and priceless bragging rights.

Teams from Germany, Italy, Vietnam and Malaysia have been given the invites for the Singapore leg this weekend at Event Plaza at Marina Bay Sands and they are nothing short of raring to go in top gear.

Here are the teams coming to Singapore:

Germany - Street Eagles

The Street Eagles are a street soccer team from Germany. They consist of semi-professional football players and professional football freestylers. At the 2011 Tiger Street Football tournament, the Street Eagles attained third place in Guangzhou, China as well as in Da Nang, Vietnam. Now the team is much stronger than back in 2011. In this year’s competition they also finished third in Phnom Penh, Cambodia but claimed the top prize in Sydney, Australia.

Italy - Football.it

Footwork - used to describe clever groundwork and their skillful feet - are exactly what they claim to be. Speed, technique, intelligence, creativity and intensity are the team’s main traits. Formed in 2007, the legendary and respected freestyle crew comprises of freestyle champions, panna heroes and street champions. They might be young but don’t let their age fool you. With no fear and an everlasting hunger for more victories, ‘go big or go home’ is

their mantra.

Vietnam - Thai Son Bac Futsal Club

Thai Son Bac are Hanoi’s premier professional futsal club in Vietnam and are owned by the Thai Son Bac Electric Equipment and Trading Co. Ltd. They were formed in July 2007 after futsal tournaments started becoming popular in Vietnam. Before that, most of the players were street footballers and the coaches were trained in 11-aside football. Currently, four players in Thai Son Bac play for Vietnam’s national futsal team. Thai Son Bac’s players are known to be skillful and are undoubtedly the strongest set of players in Hanoi.

They been consistently aiming to improve their game with new strength and conditioning regimes along with revamped game strategies. In Vietnam’s national futsal tournament they consistently placed strongly, ranking fourth in 2009, first in 2010 and third for three years in a row from 2010-2013.

Malaysia - Equal FC

Equal FC is an amateur futsal team that started with street soccer seven years ago, before making the switch to futsal. The players are from the state of Melaka and have been playing together for about six to seven years.

The team has participated in more than 150 tournaments and won over 100 championships. Sani Abdul Rahman is the team manager who led them in representing Malaysia at the 2010 KIA Futsal Championships in Johannesburg, South Africa. The team also won second place at the Adidas Championships in Singapore and at the 2012 Tiger Street Football in Vietnam, they defeated the Samba boys Brazil in the group stages. Demonstrating that they have what it takes to compete with the major players in the international arena, they are a force not to be trifled with.

This Singapore leg is the sixth stop of the tournament which has seen an increase in the level of participation in the region due to the introduction of three additional stops in Cambodia, Australia and Mongolia, on top of Malaysia and China.

For more information, log on to www.TigerStreetFootball.com andhttps://www.facebook.com/TigerBeer.SG.

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