The Lao Elephants will be hosting the Indo-China Cup this year in Lao! We need your help to make this event a success! If anyone would be willing to volunteer there time it would be very much appreciated! We need people to help assist with the running of the event, umpires, goal umpires, boundry umpires, scorer/time keeper, officials etc…… If you think can you assist in some way please...
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Following the resignation of President Langas, the Lao Elephants are delighted to announce the election of Mr. Paul Simcock to the throne. Promising his reign to be one without mercy and much blood-shed President Simcock made his first address to the playing list: “I would say i’m a bit of an animal-lover. In this way I think I will be really good for the Lao Elephants, combining co...
The Vietnam Swans celebrate their win at the 2010 Indochina Cup Despite putting in a spirited effort to send off their President in style, the Lao Elephants were unable to stomp home from the 2010 Indochina Cup as Kings of the Mekong. One a hot, humid, Saigon day this year’s Indochina Cup was competed by the Vietnam Swans, Thailand Tigers, Cambodian Corbras and the Lao Elephants. Keen to r...
The Vientiane-based Lao Elephants are excited to announce to all members that Tuesday night training at Hospital 103 has been moved to Thursday nights at the Amercian Ambassador’s Residence sporting field, located opposite Anna Grilled Duck, just up the road from the European Steak House. Reading from a prepared statement to the press-pack gathered at ‘Phants HQ in Ban Thad Khao this m...
Former Lao Elephants President Marty Sharples sets the scene for the Lao Elephants’ third assualt on the annual Asian Champs: Match Reports Asian Champs Shanghai The 11th annual Asian Championships, and the Lao Elephants 3rd on the trot, has been played and won in Shanghai. As per usual they were a triumph for the men in pink in every sense of the word. The Phants maintained their perfect re...
May 23rd will mark the beginning of one of the biggest rivalries in Lao Elephants history as the Northern/Central Lao Elephants take on their Southern Lao Elephant sisters. This match will see the unleashing of two of the strongest AFL teams to take to a Savvankhet stadium since Phomvihan led his Revolutionary Raiders to victory against the Maniacal Monarchs in ’75. Speaking at a packed pres...
Phants returning to the hallowed Pit High Altitude Training (PHAT) Centre to resume the quest for Pa
In what surely must rate as the second greatest spectacle ever seen in the Greater Mekong Subregion (the first of course being The Moment That Time Stood Still when The Captain, Legend and Number One Umbrella Holder Sanitsouk Sengdara kicked truly on the run from close range to lodge the first ever sausage roll on the board for his Lao brethren), hundreds of Phants were seen in force on the street...
In ceremonies unrivalled for pomp, prestige, beerlao, innebriated ‘phants and (hopefully) posterity two ‘Phant phavourite sons were recently married (see picture for depiction of wedding celebrations). Messrs Alex Kimura (nee Barker) and Tom Saysana (nee Callander) tied the knot to usher in a new era in their lives and, no doubt, their ability to turn up to the track on Wednesdays and ...
As the AFL season continues to show the Richmond Tigers’ improvement over the past 5 seasons with Terry Wallace at the helm, hopes are high at the Lao Elephants that Coach Sibree and President (P)Henlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly will lead the Elephants to continued success. The recent training and match preparation schedule insituted by these two titans of the game has previous preside...
The AFL has always known that the southern provinces of Laos PDR have been fertile hunting grounds for the Laos Elephants – more fertile than Gary Ablett Senior’s loins for that matter – names such as “Langas” and “Frenchy” and “that big bloke from the mine who can lift two forklifts while drinking a beer lao” quickly come to mind. Well they ha...
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