If you have ever had an opportunity to watch Malaysia play, don’t expect too much. This is my only advice to those who love the game. I considered myself a fanatic fan for local football during my early days, but no more now! I went to stadium to watch Penang play in City Stadium and almost all the matches involving Malaysia in Klang Valley. However, I feel sick each time watching them play in the stadium. Yesterday, it was a match between Malaysia versus Singapore in Asean Cup competition. I had managed to catch a few minutes of the match after coming out from the barber shop. My colleagues actually invited me to the stadium but I’m in no mood to go there. You won’t believe that after football turning professional for almost 10 years here. (The first professional league in Asia, but Japan does it much better than us in such a short time frame) Our national players still could not apply the basic skills, such as passing, holding and shooting the ball properly. Terrible!!! Our striker even balloons the ball without any pressure from the opponents. And until today, we still use the technique “hit-and-run”, too many long ball and too direct. This technique is not suitable for Asian team since we could not physically match the European players. Asian teams, such as Korea and Japan, have starting to look for new technique but Malaysia is far away behind. I promise myself if Malaysia enters the World Cup Final I will go to watch them no matter where. But it will not materialize if this is same team I watched yesterday! Look at the world ranking, where is Malaysia?
38 Iran
47 Japan
51 Korea Republic
111 Singapore
117 Hong Kong
126 Lebanon
135 Kazakhstan
137 Thailand
139 Kyrgyzstan
141 Yamen
144 Bangladesh
145 Sri Lanka
151 Laos
152 Malaysia
We are below Laos!!!! This year, we are going to hold the Asian Cup and again we qualify because we are the host nation, not based on merit. Is this going to be the same for World Cup Final? Lack of professional management in local league, majority of players with no attitude and desire, bias in selection of team players….. Malaysia football is going nowhere!
2 comments:
Who said it's going no where??? It's going somewhere! Down the effing DRAIN!!!
Bad to worse. But I guess you can use the same phrase to describe most of Malaysia - education system, race relations, sports standard, etc.
The only sports which seem to be doing well are those individual events where the parents push the children to excel. Can't rely on the government to provide ANY sort of infrastructure. What happen to the 1000 badminton hall project by ex-PM's wife? What happened to all the playing fields for children?
One of my Korean friend said that he is proud of our national team in the late 80. He remembers the Merdeka tournament, and even mentions "Mokthar Dahari" name. But now, all the ManU friend knows abt Ji-Sung Park... Time Change
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