
One of my daily routine is browsing several of my favorite football sites to update the world's number one sport news. Then, i bumped with the news of upcoming match between Portugal vs Bosnia. And then there was I in front of my laptop wondering what has got us wrong in term of football development in our country. I mean, back to 10 to 15 years ago, Bosnia was just ending up the war that has ravaged every single thing in their country, converting the country to bare shattered land . In terms of football perspective, they lost a lot of young generation, potential stars because of that bloody war with the serbs but now here they are competing against one of top-dogs in the world to qualify for 2010 South Africa World Cup. I am amused with this situation and I myself can only wonder what has gone wrong with our fucked up national team. We couldn't even qualify the 1st world cup group qualifying stage for quite some times. No wonder a lot of veterans in our country dubbed them as
"jaguh kampung". sigh~
All of this years, i have been looking our domestic football situation for quite some times. I even tried to tag along my dad to support the national team. But he seem not interested with it anymore and even questioned there are no used to watch domestic football and it's wasting my time. My dad used to support state and national team back when he was young. And I wonder what makes he changed so much these days. I can feel there was a lot of frustration in him towards our own football.
Sometimes, I had thought about how will the FAM try to curb these situation? They are losing a lot of people interest, faith and confidence and sadly it's not just the young generation but also the golden ones to. Me myself have to admit that i prefer watching european football especially premier league rather than local ones. I do have my own local favorite team which is Selangor F.C, but i always have been dissappointed with the way they played all these years. You could even laugh with the way they played sometimes. I mean, our local player sucks when it comes to long ball game but yet in certain match they have been applying it all over the pitch. hahahaha!!
They also played long ball approach when playing with the european team. I remember back then when i watch our beloved national team played against Chelsea last year. For god sake, who the hell stupid enough to play long ball against team that are physically larger and taller than your team? There was Terry and Alex in the heart of Chelsea defense and they are damn tall, large and athletic. Every time our national team played long ball to striker upfront, there will always be Terry and Alex cutting off the ball from our strikers. Aside of that, our player has never been good in long ball or crossing or anything like that, so better of stick with short passes and emphasis on movement of the players.
But overall, i think there has been a lot of improvement with the current crop of team compare with the previous crop. Tactically better, good movement and positioning, better mental strength, and show some creative movement in the centre midfield or both flanks. Much more better compare with national teams 10 years ago.
I think that's enough of my rampant today.
PS: Well, all of us (guys mostly) knows how sulky it is our national team even though it's one of the main sports in our country. personally, I blame it to the top notch of FAM.