UUM To Compete In The FAM Cup 2010?

UUM will most likely compete in the FAM Cup 2010. Efforts towards forming up a strong team for the competition had been geared by the UUM Sports Centre, headed by it's Director, Encik Shafferi Rejab. Series of trials had been conducted and to date, 10 players had been identified and their names had been submitted to the Registrar's office. The selected trialists will be called soon for an interview. Currently there are only few players (staffs) left to be considered to represent UUM to the tournament. They are Ahmad Rafiqi Roslan, Mohd Hamzah Adanan, Rozaimi Omar (defenders), Mohamad Ibrahim, Mohd Fahmi Mohd Zulkifli, Mohd Sayazi Abdul Mutalib (midfielders) and Asyraf Ibrahim, Mohd Iswandy Abdul Wahab and Syafulrizam Azizan (strikers).
Several players from the students' team, The Northern Warriors, will also be called up to strengthen the team. This will ensure that the soon to be set up team, will get full support from the UUM's community. The team will be most likely coached by UUM's staff coach, Azman Hj Eusoff.

Meanwhile, UUM's Vice Chancellor, Tan Sri Nordin Kardi, had given his consent towards putting up a team to the FAM Cup challenge. With this effort, it is hoped that UUM will be able to promote is name back to the country's football fraternities.

The Northern Warriors To Participate in IRAUG 2009

The Northern Warriors will be participating in the Indian Rim Asian University Games 2009 in Perth, Australia. The games is scheduled for December 7th - 11th 2009. The multi-sports games is jointly organized by University of Western Australia (UWA), Australian University Sport (AUS) and Eventscorp of Australia. The UUM soccer team will be accompanied by badminton and another sport to be confirmed later. Besides soccer and badminton, the games will also host beach volleyball, hockey, cricket, judo, rugby 7, tennis, water polo and ultimate.

The soccer event will be played in an 11-a-side format where each team is allowed to register 18 players and maximum of 5 officials. Therefore, a thorough selection will be made to select the strongest possible team to represent UUM and the country. The current Inter DPP Mini Soccer Carnival and the proposed UUM Champions League will be the best platform to identify potential players for the purposed. The preparation for the tournament will start in November.

UUM Champions Cup 2009

The preparation towards the inaugural UUM Champions Cup 2009 is heating up. The budget for the tournament had been finalized by the UUM Sports Centre and its organizing committee. Should everything goes well, the tournament is scheduled for it's soft launch on October 5th 2009 simultaneously with the semi finals and final match of the UUM Inter DPP Mini Soccer Carnival which was adjourned before Ramadhan. The organizing committee is trying very hard to get sponsors to contribute to the tournament and efforts towards securing a deal with a telecommunication firm is at the final stage.

Representatives from the Students Residential College (DPP) will be invited for a briefing pertaining to the tournament and the outcome will determine the full concept. The organizer is optimistic to get all the DPPs to participate in the inaugural tournament except for DPP Muamalat where majority of it's students are girls.

However the proposed 3 months period to run the league needs to be scrapped as the students will be sitting for their final papers in November before taking a long break and allowing the UUM soccer team, The Northern Warriors, to prepare themselves for the PRIMA Cup in Thailand, the UiTM Quadrangular Invitation Cup in Shah Alam and the Indian Rim Asian University Games in Australia.