Profits and Loss

Inviting world-famous soccer clubs to play exhibition matches seems to be the trendy thing to do. Spectators are the winners, but the national team ends up as the 'losers'.

July 30, 2013

There is no need to be too excited over the playing of three top-flight English Premier League clubs visiting Jakarta over the past two weeks. Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea, who are enjoying a break from official tournaments, did not fly all this way because they heard there were some great soccer teams in this country.

It is probably fair to suspect that they came because they knew that it would be easy to 'control' the Indonesian teamwhich has

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