Having watched how the Harimau of Malaysia played in the AFF-Suzuki cup, it sort of made me wanted to write a short piece on the future of our nation's football hope. I like what i saw in this team here. Being a young side, the discipline instilled by Rajagopal was clearly seen. Their defence against the Vietnamese at Hanoi was good. From what i recalled, Malaysisn players do not like to go in hard for a challenge. What i saw the other night was refreshing, players willing in to go in for sliding tackles, which many Malaysian players nowadays do not have such technique (or they sayang their legs?). This sort of defending is important to breakdown the attacking move of your opponent, it kind of display to your oppponent the no-nonsence approach of you. No strikers would like to be treated it this way. This will be crusial when we meet the Indonesian in the finals again.
I personally believe the mark of our country's rise to greatness in football will have to start with one step at a time. If we can win this cup, that will mark a small step of achievement because ASEAN region is the first step out to go before we set our mind to be a powerhouse in Asia, then the world. We need to remember the last time we won a Senior tournament was the 1989 SEA games. Winning the SEA game gold medal recently(which is for under 23 ) is nothing to shout about. Show me that you can beat teams in South East Asia, followed by strong side like Iran, Japan, South Korea..then we will be recognized as a strong team.
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Sad to say, I think Msia can only win Asean level tournaments and that too out of sheer will, guts and some tactics, not skill or technically. Why? Bcos our grassroots are not strong enough.
Asia? No way la. Watching the last 20 min of the Msia-Vietnam 2nd leg match with Vietnam down to 10 men, u could see that Msian players are not intelligent la. Instead of clearing and blasting the ball up to no one but Vietnamese players to start their attacks again, the Msian players should have kept possession with their addtional man advantage. But no, they still whacked the ball up. There was 1 time when Msian player A got the ball on the left wing and his friend Player B runs up inside of him. An opponent came up to check him but instead of playing a short pass to Player B and then move to an open space to play "monkey" to keep possesion, this Player A attempted a long pass across the field which didn't reach the target and was intercepted by an opponent. Another example was how Amri Yahya wasted a golden chance to nail the Vietnamese coffin when a Msian striker headed the ball across the 6yard box for Amri to strike but Amri ballwatched and waited too long.
How to be Asian powerhouse when Japan and South Korea are so strong in their grassroots and youth programmes? Already an 18yr old Japanese has joined Arsenal this week. A few Japanese are doing well in the Bundelisga. Soccer in our Msian schools are almost dead. Nowadays, kids and youth soccer are being taught at private soccer academies. In the future, our Msian state players will come from these academies, not from schools. However, most of these academies' coaches are not qualified and are coaching based on what they learned from school and clubs and state teams which they played for 20-30 years ago. Those methods are quite old and redundant now. Nowadays, the coaching emphasis for kids and youths between 6 to 16 yo are on technical skills - dribbling, ball control, passing and receiving - skills that should be learned and mastered as young as possible so that when they're older, they have a solid foundation to build on.
Did u know that Spain has about 15,000 coaches with A or Euro licence? 15,000 coaches! And most of them coach using the same methodology of dribbling, ball control, passing & receiving. No wonder the La Liga and Spain are doing so well. England only has abt 2,000 A licence coaches. Now u know why England flopped at major tournaments.
Hmm, after reading what saudara Michael said..certainly food for thought..15,000 qualified coaches!
Malaysia to play in WC...dream on (if things are still not change as it is now.)
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