Should I do it ?

My coaching stint in Shanghai will end soon. It might be the complete end of my stint here or it will just be a brief one as I may return. Its all depending on how things work. My wife's contract is up after our 7 years adventure in Shanghai and frankly speaking its tough to leave after all these years of my involvement in the football scene here.

Everything is so connected. The club, the friends, the players, the routine...it will be a big adjustment for me once I'm back to Malaysia. As I have mention previously in my blog post, I have always wanted to promote our Malaysian young local players to be notice in an international level tournament. It will always be my goal, and this might be a chance for me to do it, but then should I take the risk ? Its no one man task. I know as I was involve on the day 1 of starting QiLin FC.

I do always ask myself...should I do it ? I have options to stay in Shanghai and continue what I do here. Or I can always coach for another club back home in Malaysia. Or even I can find a 9-5 job to support the family ( I seriously do not want to do this ). Why should I take a risk to promote local football where it may fail. I might be thinking negatively here but its a fact that starting my own football club is a huge huge task.

First, I need to find a group of people that I can trust, people that can complete their task when they are ask to. And that is difficult. So lets say I have found them. Then I will need a venue. If I don't own a venue, yeah I can always rent them. But by committing half of your budget to rental fees, this officially will make the club screaming for registration fees. And by that, quality of players maybe sacrifice in order to achieve the monetary target. OK..lets say now I have found a person that is willing to invest in a facility. And that I think should kickstart the club but then how am I gonna change the mentality of our Malaysian parents ? If I found a gem of a player, will the family willing to part ways with him in order for the player to achieve his experience overseas ? There are just too much unanswered questions but still to be honest I WANT TO GIVE IT A SHOT if given a chance.

As at now, I don't have the financial capacity to take the risk unless someone come forward. Ministry of Sports maybe..?? Hopefully...

So my options are

1) Come back to Shanghai once I have everything sorted out back home

2) Coach for a Malaysian club ( expat base ). This is because I have not seen any local clubs that are doing the right thing a football club should do

3) Take the risk...start my own youth football academy

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