The World Cup 2010 has started for about a week now. This edition is indeed one of the toughest World Cup with some shocking results involving favourite teams. In the first leg of 1st round matches, Spain were the most miserable team losing their game to Switzerland. Brazil had a tough time with the minnow North Korea.
But my standing ovation goes to North Korea for their superb play against Brazil. Initially before the match, I would expect Brazil to whack at least 3 goals but after the first half ended, I realised that North Korea have been playing well with their strong defensive shield targeting every spear and arrow coming from the onslaught Brazilian. They also showed they were able to switch to attacking mode at the right time. Although Brazil managed to score 2 goals in second half, Ji Yun-Nam pulled back with a consolation goal and that is enough for the team to celebrate against a team with multi-million dollars worth of players.
Contradict to North Korea’s political stand, the national football team don’t bear a single element of Kim Jong Il on the field. Although most of the players are amateur players wearing pariah football kit, that didn’t stop them to qualify for the World Cup Finals. Only a few attempts and they made it to 1966 and now 2010. That’s a great achievement. To live in a hostile country like North Korea never stop their players to show their patriotism especially Jong Tae-Se who cried while singing national anthem. He’s the only player so far that cried while singing national anthem.
Back to reality, again and again when is Malaysia going to qualify to World Cup? 2014, 2018 or … ? After Mokhtar Dahari’s era, we keep on sending our “whipping boys” to World Cup Zone Qualification for other Asian teams to wallop. We haven’t showed any progress one after another. Thousands of promises have been made in the media that they will do better but the results always go back to 0? I don’t really cheer for their previous SEA games success because that is just a pariah tournament.
We have a long history and as powerhouse of football nation in the past, but somehow after billions of ringgit spent to build the modern team, we still failed to repair the status. I guess it’s better to spend the money on other sports or welfare of the people. I feel humiliated to compare the achievement of North Korea with Malaysia?
Here are my suggestions to improve Malaysian football. We should stop subsidising FAM because based on my rating on their KPI performance, they fail miserably!!! Players now should start working with employers and their monthly allowance awarded by FAM should be cut to minimum. All remunerations should also be cut to minimum until the team start to make progress. Each player will be evaluated periodically based on KPI. Just give the under par players a sack but the door is opened to them if they improve. All political figures should be removed from FAM including the royal family. Let the local professionals including sport managers/ techticians/ coaches with excellent and proven CVs regardless of race, religion and political views to reset and develop FAM from ground.
But my standing ovation goes to North Korea for their superb play against Brazil. Initially before the match, I would expect Brazil to whack at least 3 goals but after the first half ended, I realised that North Korea have been playing well with their strong defensive shield targeting every spear and arrow coming from the onslaught Brazilian. They also showed they were able to switch to attacking mode at the right time. Although Brazil managed to score 2 goals in second half, Ji Yun-Nam pulled back with a consolation goal and that is enough for the team to celebrate against a team with multi-million dollars worth of players.
Contradict to North Korea’s political stand, the national football team don’t bear a single element of Kim Jong Il on the field. Although most of the players are amateur players wearing pariah football kit, that didn’t stop them to qualify for the World Cup Finals. Only a few attempts and they made it to 1966 and now 2010. That’s a great achievement. To live in a hostile country like North Korea never stop their players to show their patriotism especially Jong Tae-Se who cried while singing national anthem. He’s the only player so far that cried while singing national anthem.
Back to reality, again and again when is Malaysia going to qualify to World Cup? 2014, 2018 or … ? After Mokhtar Dahari’s era, we keep on sending our “whipping boys” to World Cup Zone Qualification for other Asian teams to wallop. We haven’t showed any progress one after another. Thousands of promises have been made in the media that they will do better but the results always go back to 0? I don’t really cheer for their previous SEA games success because that is just a pariah tournament.
We have a long history and as powerhouse of football nation in the past, but somehow after billions of ringgit spent to build the modern team, we still failed to repair the status. I guess it’s better to spend the money on other sports or welfare of the people. I feel humiliated to compare the achievement of North Korea with Malaysia?
Here are my suggestions to improve Malaysian football. We should stop subsidising FAM because based on my rating on their KPI performance, they fail miserably!!! Players now should start working with employers and their monthly allowance awarded by FAM should be cut to minimum. All remunerations should also be cut to minimum until the team start to make progress. Each player will be evaluated periodically based on KPI. Just give the under par players a sack but the door is opened to them if they improve. All political figures should be removed from FAM including the royal family. Let the local professionals including sport managers/ techticians/ coaches with excellent and proven CVs regardless of race, religion and political views to reset and develop FAM from ground.
