An injury time goal by Kim Bo-kyung in the 91st minute helped South Korea draw with host Saudi Arabia 1-1 and share points in the Asian Olympic Qaulifying match at the Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd Stadium here Sunday. Earlier, Omar Sultan Al-Khodhari had put Saudi Arabia in the lead in the 60th minute. Ealsewhere, Syria boosted its chances of qualifying for the London Olympics with a 2-1 win over Japan at Amman, while Australia slipped into danger of missing out after losing 2-0 to Uzbekistan in Tashkent. Syria, looking to bounce back from a 2-1 defeat to Japan in November, pressed from the start. That paid off when Mohammad Fares' free kick deflected into the net off Japan striker Yuya Osako in the 19th minute. Japan leveled in the 44th minute with an equalizer from Kensuke Nagai but Syria's Ahmed Saleh scored in the 90th minute. In Tashkent, a goal in each half for Uzbekistan in frigid conditions saw it emerge as the favorite in Group B with two matches remaining. Three teams from Asia will qualify and a fourth will be chose in playoff between Africa and Asia. Other results: Qatar 2, Oman 2; UAE 1, Iraq 0; Bahrain 2, Malaysia 1. Blatter wants to reinstate Egypt football chiefs FIFA President Sepp Blatter said he will seek to reinstate fired Egypt football federation leaders, calling their dismissal “direct interference” by the Cairo government. Blatter spoke Sunday in the Paraguay capital, where he attended a special congress of South American football officials aimed at toughening up rules against government intervention. The president of Egypt's football federation and his board of directors resigned Saturday, having already been dismissed by the country's prime minister, Kamal el-Ganzouri, following the riot at a game that left more than 70 dead. Blatter said the firing of federation president Samir Zaher and his leadership constituted “a direct interference in the organization of football.”
