 Timor-Leste have major improvement at the 2011 SEA Games, when they use overseas players from Brazil and Australia whom their parents are exile from the Indonesian invasion in 1975.These players contribute success at the two matches of the 2011 edition; especially from Murilo de Almeida who managed to score three goals.Overall the under-23 team began to did well and was one of a new potential teams at the SEA Games.