Our Sarawak football team has never been doing so well all this while. Or to be concise, our Sarawak football is amongst the weakest, at least at present. Although I do not really follow its development, I know our Sarawak football team is in real bad shape, for quite some times already.
To really excel, it must come a long way and a great effort must be put into it. The followings are just my ideas and suggestions on improving our state football standard.
Football skills and spirits must be nurtured from early childhood, right from primary schools to secondary schools to universities. Every primary and secondary school must have a mandatory football development department where talented kids could be properly and systematically trained and groomed to become an excellent future footballers. These future talents must be identified and continuously and consistently trained until they are skillful and old enough to be absorbed into our state squad. And all those grooming must not ends here, it must continue into national and international levels.
Sarawak is a huge country with diverse resources and complex ethnicity. When it comes to selection of our state players, there has always been bias practice. Pardon me for revealing this reality. As we may be aware, the selection of our state players has been confined to players from Kuching division and a majority Malays. What about other divisions? There should be a well balance intake amongst all races within Sarawak, I mean I’m sure there’s ample talents amongst Iban, Bidayuh, Chinese, Melanaus and so forth. To be fair and to make sure Sarawak a strong football team, I would suggest that, selection of state players to include players from all divisions regardless of race. A proper selection system must be implemented, if we were to make Sarawak a football powerhouse. Do I need to elaborate further?
Players’ commitment is another factor which contributes to the strength of any football team. Without commitment, anything we undertake in life will fail, same thing with football team, as I have experienced from managing my own little football team previously. When I talk about commitment, it involves the welfare and financial status of the players. So, the welfare and finance of the players must be taken care of properly and without fail. Sarawak has been known to face this problem previously, and the effects are unforgettable to other players. So, a well managed team with a well managed financial standing stand a chance to be amongst the best teams in terms of players’ commitments.
An association that is free from outside and political influences is deemed to perform well in terms of managements. When there’s an outside interference in the affairs of any association, the management of that particular association will find it difficult to make decisions and thus affect the performance of the management, which in turn affect the performance of the team in general. So, I suggest, our Sarawak football team management must be 100% free from outside influence, especially political influences.
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I agree that Sarawak football is not at its best right now and i really do agree a big change must be done inside the association first. I don't know how the association works but i hope they will think of somethings that will bring changes our football situation. Right now the problem is financial. Some of the players doesn't have the spirit to go for training but that is not the problem because they also got other jobs. Besides that, the selection of players. The players must be fit to play and they must have the initiative to train by their own to improve their skills, stamina and game play and don't just rely on the training from coaches. This will help them to identify their weaknesses. If i were given a change to play with Sarawak i will do my best and do whatever it takes to help the team. I know that everyone misses the old days when Sarawak play a beautiful football, i hope and pray that day will come again. Good luck and all the best for all the players.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the selection of players must be done on an open selection basis so that everyone would have a chance to show what they can do. I understand now that players is taken from Sarawak cup teams. For me this is unfair for other Sarawakians because there are also talented but they don't have the chances to play. Players should be search all over Sarawak. Other countries like the European country they search for talented players that they will train to improve. For example West Ham United has its own football academy and a club that provides quality players to other clubs for profit. Most of England players is all from West Ham football academy. This is only my suggestion on how to improve Sarawak football and for Malaysian football.
ReplyDeleteTalking of football on national level- non of the teams are professionals All that is needed are good teams. There are many many theories on how to improve the Sarawak team, on how to solve FAS financial crisis etc. ACTUALLY THERE IS ONLY one reason and it is also the only answer - THE MANAGEMENT. Bad Management greatest sin is not to recognise merit. When nepotism, politic, racialism and ego dictate the Management's actions - you have a team like Sarawak. Ever wonder why Brunei never excel in sports? Those elements are their curses, and now ours too. A team that doesnt perform doesnt attract spectators, with no spectators there is no revenue.It is really very simple arithematic. Eventhough there is no revenue , the egoistic Management will go on spending, so in the end you will have a club like FAS amd a team like Bujang Senang. The name of Sarawak team is really 100% fitting for the Management team of FAS. Semua bujang senang.
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