Brunei-Sabah Friendly Tomorrow
By Benny Ang

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Brunei national football team will be hosting Borneo neighbours and Malaysia Cup runners-up Sabah in a pre-season football friendly tomorrow, January 9.

The match will take place at 8pm at the JBS Complex. Berakas and will be an invaluable chance for both sides to gain some match fitness with the start of the Malaysia League just one month away.

Sabah will also play a second match on Sunday afternoon at the Jerudong Mini Stadium against B-League runners up DPMM FC.

For now, the Brunei team will continue under the guidance of Zainuddin Kassim as coach and Rosanan Samak as his assistant although BAFA have not ruled out the possibility of engaging a foreign coach for this season just yet.

Mark Williams' contract has not been renewed and he will definitely not be featuring for the Wasps despite his consistency in leading the rearguard.

However, they have already retained the services of Australian Brian Iman Abdullah Bothwell for another season at least so they have another maximum of three additional import spots to fill.

One potential import is hereon trial and will feature in the friendly against Sabah. Nineteen year-old defender Ouedraogo. Souleymane from Burkina Paso arrived in Brunei yesterday and will be given an early chance to impress the Brunei management.

But there is no news on when any additional import players will arrive to try their hand in playing for Brunei.

Sabah themselves are also in the midst of trying to finalise their import Lineup despite having retained the services of their two imports in Robert Gaspar and Keith Gumbs.

With the additional import being allowed, the Sabah coach has been given the task of selecting the final player and will use the game against Brunei as a chance to gauge potential import players. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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