By the way, I would like to congratulates Malaysia U23 team for winning the Sea Games gold. Its been 20 years and great to know that there are 2 buddies of mine in there..Obviously Coach Rajagopal knows what he is doing and I have said it before these boys have potential. But then suddenly a few people minus their football brains jumps in and try to do stuff that would do more harm than good to the national team. 1st off is pulling out the Harimau Muda squad from the league. The continuity is already there in order to have a strong national team in years to come, but by removing them from the league just throws everything back to square one. Its leaves Coach Azraai and Coach Azman scrambling for friendlies in order to get the boys match exposure. Ideally the boys need 1 competitive match a week, but now there are restricted to training. Organizing friendlies is no easy task, added with the competitiveness that are require to get the boys in top condition, both the coaches are loaded with problems which is not from their wrong doing.
Thats 1 problem, then next problem is sending the U23 boys to overseas. May I know what for..?? I thoroughly agree on what Coach Azraai and Akmal Rizal said on the press, training with no matches, its a waste of time. Plus we are sending players not wanted by the clubs...and if I'm the coach down there, do you guys think I would care if the boys improve or not ? What exactly these people are thinking ??
If they say that our current league team coaches is not good enough, why not COACH THE COACHES, from grassroot to professional. By having good coaches around the country, it will enable our young boys to be coach the right way, having the good habits and by all that, it will improve our league, and when the league is good, our national team will be good as well. Simple as that and it is not rocket science. Err..maybe rocket science to someone born without a football brain !!
Also if they do want to send our boys, send them to teams where they can play week in week out and not just training. Also why it has to be England ??? We all know their academies is not doing well..they are not producing the Messis, Kakas, Agueros..how many young England stars move on to become world beaters recently..?? None..?? Which shows why the national team itself is not doing well. If these guys really want to send our players out, make sure send them out for trials so that we can have teams look at them and hopefully offer them a contract..and by the way..not those 23 years old yeah...I'm talking about 14 - 18 years old players. send them out for trials, get them contracts to play..not in England, loads of other places to choose from. Make sure they don't neglect their education while continuing their football dream.
I can rant and rant about it, but i think its enough...I met up with Coach Azraai and Coach Azman today at FAM to discuss on organizing a playing trip to Shanghai for Harimau Muda. COach Azman is the one that ring me up.....we had a great chat about football...and I have a lot of respect for them. Hopefully they will continue to work hard with the squad although their plans are all gone with the pulling out of the team from the league and I will try my best to lessen their burden in organizing friendlies by contacting my contacts.
Till then....TANAH TUMPAH DARAHKU....AKAN TERUS BERJUANG UNTUK MEMBANGUNKAN BOLASEPAK MALAYSIA !!
