Courtesy: Asian Indoor Games Official Web Site

Team Sports Draw of the 2AIG

The Macao 2nd Asian Indoor Games Organising Committee (MAIGOC) held the Team Sports Draw of Hoop Sepaktakraw, Kabaddi, Futsal and Indoor Hockey for the 2nd Asian Indoor Games yesterday (27th June) at the Westin Resort.

Chairman of Board of Directors of MAIGOC Mr. Manuel Silvério, welcomed the representatives from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and Technical Delegates and representatives who participated in this important meeting. He expressed, before the Team Sports Draw commenced, MAIGOC has already received submissions of athletes and officials from 41 NOCs, with which the Team Sports Draw of Futsal, Hoop Sepaktakraw, Indoor Hockey and Kabaddi were also conducted yesterday.

For Futsal men and women, the Organising Committee has received 15 and 7 applications respectively from the NOCs. Macau Football Association Treasurer Mr. Chiu Kam Vai and Member of the Administrative Board Mr. Lau Weng Hang were assigned by the Futsal technical delegates of the 2AIG to conduct the team sports draw. Four groups will be competed in the 2AIG Futsal event. According to the results of the 1st Asian Indoor Games, MAIGOC has listed the first four winners in the men’s category as the seed teams which are Iran, Thailand, Uzbekistan and China. The result of the Teams Sports Draw is: Group A - Thailand, Malaysia, Macao, China and Afghanistan; Group B – Uzbekistan, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam and Japan; Group C – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Indonesia; Group D – China, Kuwait and Qatar. For women, the competition will be carried out in two groups, and the first and the second winners of last edition’s AIG, Uzbekistan and Thailand, also became the seed teams. The result is: Group A – Thailand, Iran, Malaysia and Japan; Group B – Uzbekistan, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Four teams, Hong Kong, China, India, Iran and Macao, China will compete in the men’s category of Indoor Hockey event. The Indoor Hockey technical delegates of the 2AIG have assigned the Chairman of the Macau Hockey Association Mr. Alfredo M. Sales Ritchie to explain the rules to the participating teams, and according to the regulations, team sports draw will not be conducted for Indoor Hockey. The four teams will just compete in round robins.

Due to the withdrawal of Nepal Olympic Committee in Kabaddi, Technical Delegate Mr. E. Prasadrao announced to change the competition method to round robin (according to the regulations) instead of group competition. The teams then will compete for the gold medal base on their placing, while the 3rd in the round robin will juxtapose with the 4th for the bronze medal. Participating teams include Bangladesh, India, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

There will be 13 men’s team and 7 women’s team in Hoop Sepaktakraw. Conducted by Mr. Abdul Halim Bin Abdul Kader, the sequence of the team draw for men is Thailand, Macao, China, India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Iran, Cambodia, Singapore and the Philippines. For women, the sequence is India, the Philippines, Macao, China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar.



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