BATU 5: January 2009

Sathianathan launched a scathing attack on the state of the domestic game in the country in wake of the Tigers’ mauling by the UAE.

A seething Sathianathan felt his side was unable to compete as the poor standard of the Malaysian league meant they were out of their depth when coming up against the region’s more powerful sides, underlining that he stood by his comments and would take the consequences if they proved unpalatable to the country’s footballing authorities.

"I have to be honest about it but the M-League is not football. And if I have to go because of [saying] it then I have to go," he said.

"It is obvious that five or six days preparation is not enough when you can see that the players were not fully fit and they struggled in the second-half.

"I have no problem with the players' commitment but fitness is an issue. When only three players passed the fitness test we conducted before the match against the UAE, what does it say about the standard of the M-League?"

What happened to our Malaysia soccer? I use to watch Selangor playing and even exited when time Malaysia playing. Now I don’t even care if Malaysia soccer team was trash 5-0 by UAE or beaten by our neighboring country Thailand by one nil. There is no more interest in watching the Malaysia team playing and feel disgrace watching them play. What happened to our national team soccer?

When I open my back portion of the star paper I straight away skip the section on our national soccer or Malaysia league or what ever M or Super league. I feel disgusts even want to know about the progress of our country soccer. I fell I don’t want to do with anything related to our soccer in our country, i'm so dissappointed. I fell so so malu of what our soccer in Malaysia has happened.

Have a look at Vietnam, Myanmar or evem our small little neighbor Singapore, they all have improve so much. Seeing our national player face we know that they will lose the game not even stated playing.... no commitment and no desire to play well. Before we play our national team already loose. We can’t even compete in South East Asia and please don’t even think of ASIA.... our country would not ever ever play in a world cup by this rate. Wining SEA game already been so difficult... pls dont think aobut world cup.

How do we get this type of player in out national team? DO they even go thru a selection session? We are a multi racial country and why there is only malay playing in the team? Where is all the good Indian, Chinese, sabahan, sarawakian player?

I’m so sad that I heard from yesterday ESPN sport center comment on out national player training schedule. I heard there are even player give an excuse that his wife won’t allow him to go to training due a specific reason… if you don’t come for training please get off the national team. There are more commit player around which include Indian, Chinese, sabahan, sarawakian player who will want to hard so play for our country…. Please get out of the national because you are a disgrace to the country.

It really a disgrace to see our national player, are they playing soccer? If you open our start paper dated 28 January 2009, there is RM300million was dumped into FAM since 1997 to 2007. where is all the money gone? What have FAM done and most important why there are so many rubbish player in our national team?

Our national team nick name is Harimau Malaya and by the rate the national team are playing they should downgrade to Sang Kucing Malaya

Have a look at the result; is the national team just serve as a practice session for other country????

2007 AFC Asian Cup Group C Matches

10th July 2007
Malaysia 1 China PR 5

14th July 2007
Malaysia 0 Uzbekistan 5

18th July 2007
Malaysia 0 Iran 2

2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification

21st Oct 2007
Bahrain 4 Malaysia 1

Are we playing soccer? I’m so sad even look at the score.

Please don’t blame the coach. Blame all the player who want to show off. All the player should be dumped... they are the disgrace to the country. I don’t even want to know a single national player name because I feel they are disgrace to our national team.

Few things have to be chance:
1. Dumped & change the entire rubbish squad national player.
2. Apply a mandatory evenly distributed multi national team i.e 25% Malay, 25% Chinese, 25% Indian, 25% other races
3. Those who don’t take training serious should not be in the team
4. Increase / improve body structure of the team because they are so not fit, so not tough and they look like kindergarten children running around compare to the other opponent player.
5. Improve technical skill not just show off i.e central defender can’t even clear a simple ball to the half way line when under pressure
6. Player who smoke should not be in the team.

FIFA Code:MAS
FIFA Ranking: 164
Highest FIFA Ranking :75 (August 1993)
Lowest FIFA Ranking :166 (October 2007) how many country resistered under FIFA???? Hope not 166....

Please someone do something to salvage out pride of the nation. Please make us proud off our Sang Harimau Malaya & don’t become a laughing stock of other people.

Thanks to all the other people who work so hard, so commited to make changes to our national team.