Bolasemput..

Bila orang tua-tua nak mula main bola lagi...

End of the day, kena 2-0...

Selasa next week main dengan Security pulak. Hopefully, we could turn down the table by beating them and secure at least 2nd place.

P/s - Total min permainan : 10 min 15 sec... ;-)

Dibaham

What a pathetic displayed of football by the national squad in the first leg of the world cup qualifier just now. It was a wrong choice of tactical, wrong choice of players lined up in the first half of the game. Both central defenders played like a school boys although Qiu Li (age 30 with bulging tummy) and Alexsandar Duric (age 40) are two ‘old school’ forward, who could run as slow as donkey. And midfield…there were no midfield at all, a big loopholes in the middle of the field. Amar, Ismail Faruqi and captain Shafiq did not have the edge over Shahril, Mustafiq, Shia Jiayi and the rest of the Singaporean. Ismail were all over the pitch with no clear vision on how to score goal (or at least to assist in scoring goal). But then I guess, in overall, two things need to be considered carefully in the second leg, leadership and mindset change.

Three earlier matches with the EPL top four did not earn the boys the needed confidence to overcome the fear of playing in a full capacity crowd at Jalan Besar Stadium…(max 6K?). Deyy, pegang bola control game daa…

Leadership is another issue. The back four need leader. They need an experience leader to tell them when to push forward and when to calm down in a situation. The defenders are in dire strait of getting the service of the likes of Aidil or Norhafiz Zamani.

Let’s focus on the next game coming 28th July without the service of Shafiq and Aidil. No doubt Raja will push his boys in the first 20 minutes to look for the two deficit goals. Kunanlan & Amirul should start in the wing where they would expect lots of thru balls from the backline. Both of them should push forward every time they have the ball on their feet. Safee will be their target man. In the midfield, we should have the service of both Amar Rohidan and Shakir as defensive midfielder to provide extra support to the backline. Baddrol Bakhtiar and Amirul Hadi should at all time swap places in the midfield to support Safee. To provide extra power in counter attack, probably Wan Zack from Harimau Muda should be given a chance to show what he is made of.

The backline should have the service of Subramaniam in the right half for the first 30 minutes to neutralize Qiu Li and Duric. Mahalli can have his place back to support Hadi in the wings on the second half. Fadhli Shas is a good player but lack of leadership quality. He needs Norhafiz to play alongside him. Asrarudin Putra is a confirm player in left back.

Sharbinee is a no go and to be replaced by Apek or Farizal simply because both the latter are better in having effectively communication with the central defenders.

So Datuk Raja must go for 4-5-1 to have supremacy in midfield until Harimau Malaya ease the deficit and go back to the usual 4-4-2 (or vice versa have the bus ready in front of the goal post) after that. That’s my 2 cents.

P/s – Bring back the glory of the 70s (Harimau Malaya was ranked in the top 50s in 1978).

RIP: See Kim Leong

Physiotherapist Kim Leong, known to us as coach Leong was a good man. He used to coach us during football preparation for the 6th Yayasan games (Pesaya) back in 2001. With a background of a physio, he taught us not only how to play a technical/tactical match but also how to handle our physics in a challenging games like football. At the end of the tournament, Yayasan Perak ended up in third place, a notable position for a new team grouped and blended for the last 3 months.

Coach Leong had that characteristic of a man that anything came out from his mouth will be obeyed without much confronting. Thou some of us might ended up vomit at the far corner of the field resulting from his daring style of coaching. Within 3 months he turned us from a bullied 4 nil team (at a frendly by Tambun Army) to a 2-1 quarter final wins against Pahang (with the likes of Azharuddin Aziz, a prominent semi-pro player at that time). We lost to eventual winner Sabah 6 nil thou in an opener (hehe..). Coach Leong made us walk heads up every time we entered the field. And that feeling of high spirited, full of confident player was all over for the next few years playing football.

Thank you from all of us – the Yayasan Perak 2001 footballers under your service, Riazuan, Shahrul Izham, Zaraq, Suhaimi (GK), Yusri, nawawi, Anwar, Syed, Jefri (C), Zulkifli, Fadil and Team Manager, En Shafaruddin.

Coach Leong died of a heart failure at the Seremban General Hospital yesterday at 2.13am.

A Nice Nu Yer Present..

It was a night to remember for the Malaysian Young Tigerz, and they did it at the Gelora Bung Karno in front of a full 100,000 capacity Indonesian spectators. We won 4-2 on aggregate although we lost 2-1 in that 2nd leg.

Whatever it was, we have for the 1st time since the last 14 years, lifted the South East Asia cup of glory….and poor Indonesia, they were again for the fourth time only as good as a bridegroom.

The game might have gone the wrong way if Firman Utina were able to convert the penalty earlier in the first half. But Khairul and the backliner kept their cool throughout the match. In my opinion our national keeper deserved the MVP award. Safee Sali was just superb. His fifth goals in the tournament really turned down the attacking tempo of the ‘Gonzo’ and the rest of Timnas.

Jupe on the other hand was not on sight (maybe had some problem with her laser beam?). The rest of her ‘Ultraman’ did not do work well too.

Hail King Gobal! You’ve led us to SEA Games gold, 2nd stage of Asian Games and now Suzuki Cup victory.

It’s really a good present for Malaysian in closing down the curtain of 2011.

Young Tigerz

It was a heart pumping filled action at Bukit Jalil a few days back. I bet things will even be crazier in two days time at Gelora Bung Karno. Whatever it was, the ever-waiting glory of Malaysian football and the Malaysian’s wildest expectations has came to live when the Young Tigerz trounced the mighty Indonesian with a 3 nil margin. It was a fantastic show, (best ever displayed since the 2-1 winning team of Moscow Olympic 1980s qualifier) at a fully packed stadium of more than 90 thousands spectators, and million more in front of their TVs.

With the fighting spirit shown by the Tigerz, I believe it will be a miracle for the Indonesian team to turn back the table or come back strongly. The key success factor is never look high on others cos’ we are now the best in South East Asia. In different perspective, the key losing factor would be over-confident of the comfortable 3-0 score line. And with the fanatical freak Indonesian fan?…

Wait seminit. That was not the key gone-astray factor. If Malaysia loses the 2nd leg, it would be because of no other than the sensational sexy actress with busty laser beam 36D cup, Jupe or Julia Perez. Nor Shahrul will find it difficult to even jog around, considering his inexperience first night. Khairul Fahmi, Safee Sali would barely open their eyes in handling the laser beam from the busty (Gaston’s playground) 36D cup. Even King Raja could barely give orders, cos’ his mouth will be flooded with saliva..

Yup…these Young Tigerz are special. They’ve brought back the joy and pleasure of watching Malaysian football. I’m a proud Malaysia football team supporter!!!!

Go King Raja, Go Tigerz, kick their ass hard…

Korea’s World Cup Dream..Malaysia?

Prinsip asas yang anda akan belajar tentang management adalah beberapa singkatan ayat yang mudah diingati sebagai PLOC – Planning, Leading, Organizing and Control. In a simpler word PLOC refers to a process/cycle in management. Kebanyakan dari kita sometimes too focused on the planning part, ending up lost steam towards the implementation (‘cos unable to provide good control or monitoring). Worst still if one unable to lead and organize.

Planning is very simple, a few brainstorm and workshop sessions will do. Leading and organizing might be tough but unable to monitor and control would be the worst part of all. What’s all these got to do with the  above title? Ontahlah…

WHITE RAJAH...LAGI

We were in Kuching last weekend having another round of interview. At night, we had dinner at the newly refurbished The White Rajah restaurant while having a good time with the Korea-Greece match up (and Abigail the waitress too :p~~). My mind was at the game so much that I was not enjoying the food at all. After all, who could enjoy hotel’s chicken breast ‘repertoire’ something..a chicken chop with spicy mushroom soup, covered by pasta. Mannn..pasta mama mia killed my appetite totally!

Anyway, I figure out we might need three Super Mokh and Ghani Minhat at the front line, five more James Wong, Dollah Salleh, Azizul Abu Hanifah in the midfield, another five Chin Aun, Zainal Abidin Hassan and Santokh in the back line (to exclude Shebby Singh kinda if any) and few Spidey Arumugam at the goalkeeper, just to make up squad for the next World Cup. Anything less than that gabish, no go, pocik yilek…Anyway, let’s put the past glorious moment of Malaysian football aside and start to think for the future.

In Malaysia, we produced good skilled young player. Four of our under 16 players sent to Chelsea for training had a good training record as compared to the local. Comes 17, 18 and so on, they’ll good enough to be Chelsea’s ball picker. Why this happen? Ontahlah..maybe we need to relook at our PLOC. There must be something somewhere that we’ve missed out in that cycle.

Until we figure out that, we are only as good as the cheer leader for the Korean team. Hoorey!!