Finally, we have the new champion of Europe, from the land of Don Quixote. No doubt that Spain deserves the victory due to their superb control of the field and the Matadors that kept the bullish Germans at bay all the time. They had broken the curse of losing, winning their first international cup after 44 years.
While many Malaysians are still amazed and overjoyed by this outstanding performance, our own soccer team is no way to the top. Many years have past since the days of the formidable Mokhtar Dahari, Soo Chin Aun, Hassan Sani, Santokh Singh or Spiderman Arumugam. Those were days according to my dad when we held the status as one of the best in Asia. Currently, based on FIFA ranking, our national soccer team is ranked 169 in the world. While in Asia, we are standing at No. 32 behind our SEA neighbors Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar.
Lately, Malaysians are exposed to foreign soccer thanks to ASTRO and ever since then many have been hardcore and fanatic worshipers of foreign teams and clubs such as MU, dress up like their icons and crazy hunting for teams' collectibles. Some to the extent of buying MCs to recover back their sleep after watching exciting match in the early hours of the day. But when it comes to our own national side or pro league, many feel that its not worthy to support and watch those lousy football. See the crowds' attendance at the venue for pro league, its such a disappointment. Don’t blame it on ASTRO for putting live EPL matches every weekends, we should blame the people responsible for the destiny of the soccer in this country.
When the national side lost, the same people will use back the same excuse all over again. With millions of ringgits spent on developing talents at local, are we really putting the right potential players in the development program? With some prominent VIPs, politicians and royal family running the association, no doubt the budget might have drained down to the wrong parties while selections might have been done under biased circumstances leaving the real potential players out of the scope. Even when it comes to small games like the SEA games, the participation from our lowly soccer team is questionable. Are we sacrificing other potential winners for the sake of soccer team?
Malaysia is not lacking in every sense by looking at the soccer facilities that it has. We are experience and proud enough to have organized many 5 stars tournaments. But to get real kicking job done in the right way on the real field is always the number one enemy of our soccer team. Getting the right people to manage, choose and involve the right players to play for the country is something that must be seriously considered. Anyway, for the time being we still have someone to cheer such as Titus James who makes the nation proud, carving his career in France.
Hopefully one day we can see the Malaysian team wins the Asia Cup, at least.
While many Malaysians are still amazed and overjoyed by this outstanding performance, our own soccer team is no way to the top. Many years have past since the days of the formidable Mokhtar Dahari, Soo Chin Aun, Hassan Sani, Santokh Singh or Spiderman Arumugam. Those were days according to my dad when we held the status as one of the best in Asia. Currently, based on FIFA ranking, our national soccer team is ranked 169 in the world. While in Asia, we are standing at No. 32 behind our SEA neighbors Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar.
Lately, Malaysians are exposed to foreign soccer thanks to ASTRO and ever since then many have been hardcore and fanatic worshipers of foreign teams and clubs such as MU, dress up like their icons and crazy hunting for teams' collectibles. Some to the extent of buying MCs to recover back their sleep after watching exciting match in the early hours of the day. But when it comes to our own national side or pro league, many feel that its not worthy to support and watch those lousy football. See the crowds' attendance at the venue for pro league, its such a disappointment. Don’t blame it on ASTRO for putting live EPL matches every weekends, we should blame the people responsible for the destiny of the soccer in this country.
When the national side lost, the same people will use back the same excuse all over again. With millions of ringgits spent on developing talents at local, are we really putting the right potential players in the development program? With some prominent VIPs, politicians and royal family running the association, no doubt the budget might have drained down to the wrong parties while selections might have been done under biased circumstances leaving the real potential players out of the scope. Even when it comes to small games like the SEA games, the participation from our lowly soccer team is questionable. Are we sacrificing other potential winners for the sake of soccer team?
Malaysia is not lacking in every sense by looking at the soccer facilities that it has. We are experience and proud enough to have organized many 5 stars tournaments. But to get real kicking job done in the right way on the real field is always the number one enemy of our soccer team. Getting the right people to manage, choose and involve the right players to play for the country is something that must be seriously considered. Anyway, for the time being we still have someone to cheer such as Titus James who makes the nation proud, carving his career in France.
Hopefully one day we can see the Malaysian team wins the Asia Cup, at least.
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