as we all malaysian know, we just won the SEA games gold medal in football, beating our arch nemesis, indonesia!!!! a dramatic match that end up in 1-1 draw which then decide through penalties which we won 4-3(amek mu,haha)....HOOOORRREEEEYYYY!!!!!!!
but then, moments before im posting this post, Malaysia lose 0-2 to syria in the olympic group qualifying rounds...sad...
well, i got mixed emotions n opinions about our national squad n the fate of malaysian football...first of all, yes, i am proud with their achievements in the sea games. they've shown that malaysia is definitely one of the power house in football in sout east asia region that is(judging by the u23 squad n champions of the AFF suzuki cup)...
BUT...wake up call people, we r still far behind...the footballing system in our nation is i think still not up to the standard if we are to compete against other asian giants..our leagues still below the par...the quality,*sigh*,is still far reach from the level that'll put us as the same ranks as other nations...sometimes,the current state of our league or footballing thingy watever really made me questioned myself, what really went wrong??
if we look back in history,our footballing quality is not that far from others and we did produce some brilliant players along the way...that history my friend should've been the foundation of our country's football development(which i think we should reap the outcome right now)...but then, what had happen???where did it all go??honestly, if the FA build the ground from those past years of glories,'fixing' the leagues or perhaps build an academy and such, its not impossible that we're playing at the 2006 world cup...i mean, look at korea, japan, they were able to do it, so why aren't we??hurrrrmmmmm...perhaps we were buzy chasing the 2020 vision or maybe buzy building sky scrapers...aaa what the heck...
yes, who am i to say such words n judgments on our football whatever league squad thingy, u don't have the authority! ur not even an expert in these sort of things!"...yup, perhaps, but as a fan n a malysian who loves football as much as his love to life, i think i have the rights to voice out my opinion...its my blog for god sake!hehe...
all in all(cam esay la plak), i hope that our nation football will....i don't know, i hope for the best n definitely improvements....MALAYSIA BOLEH!
below is a video of one of the greatest footballing legend that our country produce n of course some glimpse of how great our football was...the golden age as they call it...