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Match Report: North Korea: 4 – Taiwan: 0
After a bruising five games of football in the AFC Women’s finals, Taiwan’s tournament is over after a comprehensive defeat to North Korea. Having lost to China a few days earlier, the Mulan were out of the AFC Finals itself but had been moved into a ‘best of the rest’ bracket that was designed to…
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Match Report: China: 2 – Taiwan: 0
Taiwan did everything right but it wasn’t quite good enough after a gutsy, determined and heroic stand against one of the better teams in international women’s football. Two goals in extra time from China mean that Taiwan’s AFC Women’s Finals are over. On paper this should be a painful loss, but in reality there are…
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Ex National Team Coach Ejected From AFC Game
Amid the chaos of yesterday’s game between Taiwan and India, news has emerged that former national team coach, Chen Kuei-jen, was ejected from the game at halftime for shouting ‘Go Taiwan’. Additionally, Radio Taiwan has reported that Taiwanese fans also had placards with pictures of Taiwan’s players taken away by security. Although no longer employed…
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Match Report: Taiwan: 3 – India: 1
It was a tale of three goal posts and plenty of tough tackles, but Taiwan have advanced to the knock-out phases of the AFC Finals for only the second time in three decades. It was hard slogging against an Indian team that had lost both their previous group games– including a 11-0 defeat to Japan–…
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Match Report: Taiwan: 1 – Vietnam: 0
Taiwan’s womens team took a major step towards qualifying out of their AFC Finals group after beating Vietnam. The Mulan were simply too much for their opposition, who had their moments but over the course of ninety minutes were visibly the weaker team on the field. Having lost in valiant fashion to Japan only a…
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Match Report: Japan 2: – Taiwan: 0
Taiwan began their AFC Women’s Finals tournament in Australia with a gutsy but perhaps inevitable defeat to tournament favorites, Japan. The Mulan had a clear game plan from the beginning; defend deep, play selflessly and try to limit the opportunities for the tournament favorites to shoot from inside the Taiwan penalty box. For a large chunk…
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