thats why i want RG tu put someone in the reserve to pressure him for place... Badri Radzi is the name most local football fans wants to be given chances..

As a people of Terengganu myself, i like JKT a lot.. his long shot is superb.. a bit of flair as well.. and still quite young too.... but his problem is, he is not a pure CM....if he want to break into the NT, he had to go through Badrul Baktiar, Kunalan, Amirul Hadi and co.....thats a crowded road there... IMO, i had no doubt he had what it takes to be in NT.. if he make an a specially good contribution for Terengganu, it will again gives another head-ache to Rajagopal...

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 3 2011, 10:50 AM

Review on Pool of national Team players...

Defender Left:

Azmi Muslim*
Asrarudin Putra Omar
Sabree Mat Abu

Azmi Muslim’s rose to prominence can make a good Hollywood rag to riches story. The former forklift driver‘s talent was found by TV3 reality show, My Team, and grow strength by strength into one of the best attacking left back in the country. Like any good left back, he has springs on his steps and can terrorize the opponent with his speed on the hit-and-run and overlaps. His left foot cross was crucial in our country’s run to the 2009 SEA games Gold medal. Despite his attacking prowess, he still cannot find the right balance with his defensive side. Due to that, Azmi yet to taste pure first team squad status in the NT as RG usually start with the more defensive Sabree Abu and only introduce Azmi as an impact sub later on. But the talent is there, and after a season with Kedah, his game has started to become more mature but a hamstring injury in Malaysia Cup semifinals prevents him from showing it at the AFF Suzuki Cup.

Much hope were put on Asrarudin Putra Omar when he caught the eye of PSV Eindhoven, they offer him a week trial, after a good performance at 2007 Champions Youth Cup. Safe to say, the potential then are yet to be materialized. It annoys a lot of fans when RG use him constantly as the starting left back as he is not even the starting left back for Selangor. But we all knew Rajagopal’s predicament, as after Azmi Muslim’s injury, Asrarudin is the only player with a natural left peg in the team. A right legged left back plus a right legged left winger will equal zero penetration and predictable deliveries from the left. To be fair, Asrar is not all bad. He is quick, works hard and can be decent going forward. You can see he tried very hard to curb his attacking instinct to focus more on his defensive side during the AFF Suzuki from the semi-finals on. But, we can also see that he was not good enough at that. He tried to be patient with his tackles but still can be caught flat by the opponent’s winger on 1-on-1. He also prone to individual mistakes too as he was responsible for 3 of the 5 goals Indonesia scored during the opening match mauling. It speaks a lot about the dearth of left footed talent in the team when he still starts the next match against Thailand. His late tackle against Thailand in the box can alter the history differently for us if a penalty was called. In my opinion, he has the right physique and skill to be a defender. He just need to train diligently on some defensive technique and habits.

Sabree Abu is our own in-house utility man in the team. He can plays anywhere on the back four and primarily used as a defensive midfielder by Kedah. Previously, he was Rajagopal’s favorite left back as he is much more dependable defensively compare to the more attacking Azmi Muslim and Asrarudin Omar. He is sure footed with his tackle and very good at closing down opponents. But his problem at left back is he has no use whatsoever going forward. No cross and no penetration. If he received the ball on the left, chances are, that the ball either be cleared or passed back to GK to be cleared. But still, he is the safest bet to choke the opponent on that left hand side.

Others:

Titus James Palani ??
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MY VERDICT

This is easily our weakest and problematic position in the team. The balance is not right as the players are either too attacking or too defensive. The only left legged players in the team brought liabilities defensively and this has jeopardized Rajagopal’s plan for midfield as well, as Kunalan’s attacking range have to be shackled because he is the only winger who can track back a lot to cover the left backs even though he is much more comfortable, attacking wise, on the right. Sabree Abu can only be considered as a stop gap measure there as there is only so much he can do with his right foot at left back. New talents coming out from the league to challenge the left back position are also not clearly visible. So, unless there are surprise gems in the Harimau Muda squad, Rajagopal has no choice but to continue developing Azmi Muslim and Asrarudin Putra Omar in that position with the former hold a better edge to improve as he is the starting eleven for his state side, Kedah.

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 11 2011, 08:07 PM

Bro.. you know why Nike make that jersey in Indonesia right... harga sehelai jersey tu sahaja dah boleh bayar gaji seorang pekerja dengan anak2 dia sebulan....

yap... thats the one.. as i said, he tried very hard to focus more on his defensive side from the semi-final on, but the laps of concentration are still there. I think Indon's right side, Ridwan had a field day piling crosses from Asra's side only to be stoped by Khairul Fahmi each time..

i would have done that if aku dah habis bayar sumer hutang dan tak ada apa2 lagi ikatan dan tanggungan dalam hidup...

someone forgot that RG has a small matter of World Cup qualifying in June to attend to....

OKS can win back that job if he can bring the team far at the olympic qualifying... pakistan will be nothing.. depends highly on the luck of the draw, we can quickly be put against the likes of Japan, korea and Iran....

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Added on January 3, 2011, 9:20 pm thanks for the input bro rocko. I agree on all points and even planning to touch about the jack of all trades and the weight issue on the Right Back segment...

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 3 2011, 09:20 PM

Jika kita ingin menghasilkan pemain bola sepak berkualiti, kita perlulah menyumbang supaya kerjaya sebagai pemain bolasepak boleh menjadi kerjaya yang berkualiti.

Puji mulut sahaja tak guna. kalau kita bank-in RM30 sahaja ke dalam akaun SAM ni, kita dah bagi lebih dari seringgit seorang kepada setiap player dan staff.



Sumbang Tabung Ganjaran Akujanji melalui akaun CIMB SAM

2011/01/02
PERSATUAN Penulis-penulis Sukan Malaysia (SAM) bersetuju membuka akaun khas persatuan bagi membolehkan orang ramai menghulurkan sumbangan sebagai tanda penghargaan di atas kejayaan skuad bola sepak negara menjuarai Piala AFF Suzuki, baru-baru ini.

Presiden SAM, Ahmad Khawari Isa berkata, orang ramai kini boleh menyumbang melalui akaun SAM tanpa had minimum bagi memberi peluang peminat yang ingin turut serta dalam Tabung Ganjaran Akujanji yang dilancarkan baru-baru ini. Orang ramai boleh menyumbang melalui akaun CIMB SAM di nombor: 1426-0006500-00-5. “Akaun ini akan dibuka selama dua minggu dan hasil sumbangan itu nanti akan diserahkan kepada pihak berkaitan untuk disampaikan kepada barisan skuad bola sepak Piala AFF Suzuki nanti.

“Saya juga menyeru orang ramai dan peminat untuk turut menyumbang walau RM5 sekalipun sebagai sebahagian dari tanda penghargaan dan terima kasih kepada skuad Harimau Malaya,” kata Ahmad Khawari.

Setakat ini, RM91,400 sudah terkumpul, daripada enam syarikat iaitu Double XL Services Sdn Bhd (RM22,000), WSL (MSC) Sdn Bhd (RM22,000), Aiman Motor Sdn Bhd (RM22,000), AR Factor Resources Sdn Bhd (RM10,000), SPA Integrated Sdn Bhd (RM10,000) dan Kelab Futsal Arena (RM2,200).

Blogger sukan, Mohd Rizal Hashim turut menyumbang RM3,200.
Badan korporat dan orang perseorangan boleh menghubungi pejabat SAM di talian 03-20780985 atau faksimili di 03-20706294 pada setiap Isnin, Rabu dan Khamis. Sumbangan boleh juga dibuat dengan berhubung terus dengan Setiausaha Agung SAM, Faisal Jamal di 014-2366200.

BHARIAN

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 3 2011, 09:51 PM

dont wait from the government for everything.. this is a chance for us to PERSONALLY involved with appreciating our players who moved us..

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Added on January 3, 2011, 10:02 pmKBS only give 5k per person... same like when they won SEA Games... the other 4k per person are from current amount in the Aku Janji fund..

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 3 2011, 10:02 PM

*cough*norshahrulmatsaiddahcopnakbagitanah*cough*

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Added on January 4, 2011, 7:50 amCheers and chants are all right when the team is winning. But it only take a freak accident in the bathroom to wreck Mahali's or Faizal Abu Bakar's career. No state will offer them a contract before their injuries healed. They have to recover on their own and fight again from the bottom. In the mean time, how do they, as the provider of the family, look into at their child's eye and say we have to think twice about eating at KFC or buying toys until daddy can find a job... who would cheer and chants for them then? will that be enough?

i wont be saying this if our players are all millionaires like in the BPL. But the truth is the financial state of our league is dire. There are not enough money from outside coming in. A lot has been said about how short the span of a sportsmen career is.. job security are very treacherous... so as a professional, they must work hard to be the best of the best so to achieve financial stability and collect retirement pool as much as they can while they are at the top.

Of course not one of them ever come out to say they want any reward. I have no doubt they only did what they did in the spirit of love for their country. if there are no reward, they would have still do no less then what they already did. But if they can bring the priceless joy to us, why not we do the same to them?

The most important reason, the main reason why i type this is, i want to break the stigma that football is a self-torturing-labor-of-love type of career. When we read football players can receive hundred of thousands of ringgit in yearly income if they are good, parent would start sending their young kids to academies for training.. not only parents will be proud to see their children get the adulation on the field, but they are also will feel safe to know that the financial side of their children are also backed. This stigma is the real killer of our football youth development.

And we also have to start questioning the notion a sports player performance will suffer if they receive bumper reward. There a lot of reason why performance drop. Could be the training problem, personal problem, opponents just get better or simply because they overachieved with their performance in the first place..there many casses of athletes become not good with or without bumper rewards... But stingy, fickle and butthurt people mainly choose to focus on the monetary reason because they sick of their mundane 9-5 jobs that barely worth to pay their debt and they get jealous when these SPM-pon-tak-lepas sportsmen receive more money then they do.

Datuk LCW and Nicol David has shown that monetary reward does not necessarily make the player's performance drop. If anything it will spur the athletes to get better as, with good enough income, they can leave their worldly problems at the gates of their training ground and just concentrate on training. Right now, some players even worried that their car will be repossessed at the parking lot when they are training...

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 4 2011, 09:51 AM

i truly thinks the success of the ISL are purely base on the loyal and supportive nature of their fans. every football match were treated as a carnival no matter how good their team are of who the opponent is...

from this strong base, the industry has the capital to give good benefits to the players and hire quality imports.

Theri PSSI is as sucky as FAM, but contrary to Malysia who turn their support to EPL, them Indonesian turn their undying support to their local clubs...

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Added on January 4, 2011, 12:50 pmthey also like to gossip and hope for the downfall of others too... the old cliche Cerekarama story of "poor kampung boy who suddenly lost their footing and become cocky after they got rich and famous with an anak datuk model wife before the get hit-by-a-car/crashed-their-head-to-some-rock/swallowed-by-the-earth as a punishment" never gets old... we wished that to happen in real life all the time..

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 4 2011, 12:50 PM

my team Ganu punya route pon ok jugak... .. Perak ja yang mungkin block ke semifinal...

takde harapan bro... Kelantan dah tak power dah season ni...

sajeeeeee...

it makes sense bussiness wise.. theredwarrior are among the hottest rising brand last year...

the problem with KL is... its more of a Cheras thing then a greater KL thing.. dont you think?

can people of Chow Kit and Gombak go al the way to cheras to see them...

of course during the Azman Adnan days everybody supports KL

I know Azman is a Selangor Legend. But somehow i have a greater memories of Azman with KL didnt they won back to back Piala Malaysia with him in the squad..

gimme five mann.... ABS FTW..

i think ASTRO think that too.. thats why they payed 120mil for the tv rights and will spend another 100mil in marketing (propably include better broadcasting equipment as well)

finding a commentator with local footbal passion and knowledge complete with radio friendly voice and presentation is very tricky..

the Englishman are born with radio friendly voice and presentation, so they just need to pick an ex player who knows what there are talking about and they are good to go. Commentary are among the main reason why EPL broadcast are more delightful than other foreign league programme IMO..

most BM commentators has an annoying voice tone on air... like the old Radio Klasik model... what we need is Radio Era level of radio station revolution to the local football match commentatory...

Rizal Hashim for me has a smoothing radio friendly voice..

This post has been edited by aressandro10: Jan 6 2011, 12:47 AM