I share your sentiment. Foreign players and coaches have all said one thing in common, that our players have the ability and skill. However, there is doubt over their mental strength. I'm not merely referring to onfield circumstances e.g. going a goal down. I'm referring to environmental factors such as being exposed and having to adapt to an entirely different culture, food, language, weather, customs and living conditions. I'm talking about having the discipline to train harder, to watch their diets, etc. Recent history would suggest that our lads cannot do so. Everyone who has been sent away on stints, has wanted to come back citing a preference to stay local.

I for one think that Fahmy is good enough to play abroad and I don't mean in countries like Cambodia or Vietnam. However I have doubts over his ability to acclimatize. My colleague works closely with KAFA and meets the Kelantanese players often enough. They are almost all very reserved, shy and are uncomfortable in social situations. How then can they adapt to being on foreign soil? Safie is another one but then Indonesia isn't that different from Malaysia culturally.

Aye we had a strong team back then even after our Golden Era. We had our version of David Seaman in goal I.e. Khairul Azman. Other solid players were Ismail Ibrahim, Azizol Abu Hannifah, the Kinta Express I.e. P.Ravindran, Yap Wai Loon and P.Somasundram.

Hmm maybe and maybe not. I mean Fandi Ahmad from Singapore plied his trade overseas for a bit.