Enough with the exhibition mode, its time for serious and meaningful friendlies

I never impress with the idea of our national team to play in an exhibition match, against any visiting european football clubs. The fact that our national team never learn or never earn any slice of benefits from it. Personal glory  or self satisfactory maybe, enjoyed by most of the national team players. But in term of football progress, we should take a long look and re consider future similar fixture.

A national team must at any way, to be played in an A GRADE international fixture. Thats mean Malaysia to play any national team in this planet, and NOT to play against any club side whether localy or internationaly. I urge FAM to be more serious on this, planning and arranging future international friendlies, or friendly tournament. Why am i not happy with these fixture? Well, i have come up with some reasons why we need to arrange friendlies fixture accordingly

First, exhibition games against the BPL clubs won't help the Harimau Malaya to climb up the ladder in FIFA ranking. The result was totaly meaningless, but again and again, the team always exposed by the visiting teams with our boys normally well beaten and the coach will end up saying "They are in different level, they are world class players"....and so on. We have to accept the painful reality, currently our football are not up to the expectation as yet. The team gave their best, played with pride eventhough looked tired considering that they have been serving the fasting month of Ramadhan with full of sincerity. To achieve higher rank in FIFA's list, the only way is by playing against another national team, not a club side.

Second, the visiting BPL teams are not playing anywhere near 70% of their true potential capability. They are here only for marketing purpose, making money by penetrating south east asia's market. They are not here to help our football. They are not interested with our talent. So, why are we so serious playing against them? In actual fact, they dont even bother on whatever outcome that may occur after the game. It is better for us, the host to field a selection or best eleven from our Super league. The best foreign imports plus some 3 or 4 top local players. They are promoting their brand, so we should unleash our local brand as well, which is the Super league itself.

Third, Harimau Malaya should be given a true international game. This is where FAM looked lacking so much. Can we play a lesser side from europe such Macedonia, Cyprus, Belarus, Lithuania and etc? Why is it so hard for FAM to arrange a quality fixture? Or lesser south American side such as Venezuela, trinidad & Tobago and etc? Is it so impossible for FAM to find an opponent or is it just because effort was not sufficient enough to attract suitable opponent for friendlies? Please let the Super League All Star to play against the visiting european clubs. Its time for FAM to move on, no more exhibition game for our beloved national team, please give them a real football.