Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Well beaten, or deceived?

With expectation running high prior to the AFC U22 qualifier between host Myanmar and Malaysia, we always believe this talented assembled u22 side will soldier on and win the tie.

The team had to deal with various injury casualties and coach Ong Kim swee was forced to make changes, including playing Fandi Othman as a centre back.

First half was a game to forget. Irfan Fazail didn't play well. Gary Steven looked a bit slow and less aggresive. Nazmi Faiz need to discover himself as he displayed series of poor touches and lack of meaningful running into advance position. OKS need to sort out with Nazmi what was wrong with him lately.

I am not interested to elaborate more on the how we conceded the goals, but at the same time rumors started building up that host Myanmar fielding overaged players in their squad. I just cant believe the rumors with the fact that for today modern football most participating countries are dead serious with their own youth development.

Its hard to accept if any side in this world would do the unthinkable, by deceiving the opponent and also the organizer which is the AFC. For me, this is very UNsporting and contradict to the true value of sportsmanship.

To coach Ong Kim Swee, whether our boys were deceived or not, i suggest they need extra session on how to enhance their fighting mentality wherever they play. 

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