3RD ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Israel 1964
The third Championship in 1964 attracted the participation of 16 teams of which 12 teams took part in the Final Championship in Tel Aviv, Israel. The tournament was perhaps the poorest of the first three. Though played to big crowds in Haifa, Jerusalem , Jaffa and Ramat Gan, the standard of football was no where near as the previous tournaments. Sir Stanley Rous attending the tournament on FIFA's behalf , also commented on the relatively poor level of sportsmanship displayed by the participating teams. Israel, on purely practical terms, was not a wise choice of venue, coming hard on the heels of the Asian Games in Jakarta. It was again the home team who dominated; however, the holders, South Korea did not send their strongest team, who were kept at home preparing for the Olympic Games qualifying match against South Vietnam which was being played at the same time in Seoul !! The decisive game was played between Israel and India early on, but if the Koreans had beaten Israel by three clear goal margin before a capacity 40,000 crowd in Ramat Gan, they would have won the title for the third time running. Instead Israel won 2-1 to take the title with India second and the Korean Republic settled for third. ranked fourth.
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| FINAL STAGE |
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| Israel | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5:1 | 6 |
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| India | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5:3 | 4 |
| Korea Republic | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2:4 | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1:5 | 0 |
| [1] | Israel | Israel vs. Hong Kong | 1:0 | |
| [2] | Israel | India vs. Korea Republic | 2:0 | |
| [3] | Israel | Israel vs. India | 2:0 | |
| [4] | Israel | Korea Republic vs. Hong Kong | 1:0 | |
| [5] | Israel | India vs. Hong Kong | 3:1 | |
| [6] | Israel | Israel vs. Korea Republic | 2:1 |
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Last updated on Wednesday, June 11, 2008