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Pilihan Liga-S buru kemenangan ketiga berturut-turut
OlehZainal Jamari
DUA pemain veteran disertakan dalam skuad Pilihan Liga-S yang kelihatan kuat untuk perlawanan mempertahankan Piala Sultan Selangor di Shah Alam hujung minggu ini.
Jurulatih, V. Sundram Moorthy, telah menyertakan pemain midfield Tampines Rovers, Rafi Ali, dan Mohd Noor Ali dari Geylang United, ke dalam skuad 20 orang.
Rafi telah 77 kali mewakili Singapura sementara Noor Ali pula telah 44 kali menyarung jersi negara.
Daripada skuad 20 orang yang akan ke Shah Alam itu, 14 adalah bekas pemain dan pemain skuad Singapura sekarang, termasuk 10 yang mewakili Singapura dalam perlawanan-perlawanan kelayakan Piala Dunia yang baru berakhir.
Singapura telah memenangi Piala Sultan Selangor sejak dua tahun lalu dan berharap dapat mencatat hat-trick dalam pertemuan kali ini.
Singapura memenanginya buat pertama kali dalam 2006, mengalahkan Selangor 3-0 di Stadium Negara – kali terakhir acara tahunan itu diadakan di sini.
Pada tahun berikutnya, Singapura menang 3-1 di Shah Alam.
Sebelum perlawanan itu, satu pertemuan antara pasukan veteran Singapura dengan Selangor akan dilangsungkan.
Para peminat boleh mengingat kembali zaman Piala Malaysia apabila Sundram, Dollah Kassim, Robert Sim, Lee Bee Seng, Haslir Ibrahim, Malek Awab, Salim Moin, Samad Allapitchay, Yahya Madon dan Syed Faruk menyarung jersi Singa sekali lagi untuk menentang ‘musuh ketat’ mereka Selangor.
Juara perlawanan utama akan memenangi hadiah RM50,000 ($20,900) sementara pemenang perlawanan kedua akan memenangi hadiah RM10,000.
Tiket untuk menyaksikan perlawanan berharga $3 dan boleh dibeli di Pejabat FAS, Jalan Besar, dari 10 pagi hingga 6 petang sehingga Jumaat ini.
Skuad Pilihan Liga-S: Lionel Lewis, Razif Yahaya, Precious Emuejeraye, Kaze Teffo Giscard, Ali Imran Lomri, Park Mun Ki, Mohd Noh Rahman, Jufri Taha, Mohd Noor Ali, Rafi Ali, Isa Halim, Shahril Ishak, Shi Jiayi, Fahrudin Mustafic, Shahdan Sulaiman, John Wilkinson, Mohd Khairul Amri, Aleksander Duric, Gabriel Obatola dan Aliff Safaein.
Veteran Singapura: Lim Chiew Peng, Lee Bee Seng, Samad Allapitchay, Razali Saad, Robert Sim, Au Yeong Pak Kuan, Haslir Ibrahim, Terry Pathmanathan, Gulam Mohamed, Ishak Saad, Yahya Madon, Syed Faruk, Malek Awab, D. Tokijan, Salim Moin, Shamsudin Rahmat, Dollah Kassim, V. Sundram Moorthy, Abdullah Noor dan Ho Kwang Hock.
Mereka yang berminat boleh mengikuti pakej pelancongan U-Turn berharga $55 atau penginapan satu malam di Hotel May Tower dengan harga $130 seorang.
Sila telefon Akbar Hashim, 9664-4942 untuk butir lanjut.
Cyberita
OlehMohd Sani Ali
SELANGOR dan Johor dijangka menjadi saingan ketat dalam Pesta Bola Sepak Legenda Sembilan Sepasuk yang akan berlangsung di Stadium Hougang hujung minggu ini.
Menurut jurucakap penganjur Persatuan Bola Sepak Melayu Singapura (PBMS), Dino Dakarlan, Selangor dan Johor merupakan antara lima pasukan yang telah mengesahkan penyertaan mereka dalam temasya bola sepak yang julung-julung kali dianjurkan bagi para pemain veteran era Piala Malaysia dan Piala Emas Raja-Raja.
‘Berdasarkan senarai pemain yang mereka lampirkan, kami menjangka Selangor dan Johor mampu meningkatkan saingan dalam temasya ini,’ kata Dino.
Turut serta ialah Persatuan Bola Sepak Melayu Inderapura Pahang, Kelab Bola Sepak Cina Wilayah Persekutuan dan Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.
Cabaran Persatuan Bola Sepak Melayu Selangor akan diketuai pengurusnya, Haji Khaidir Buyong, dan antara pemain yang turut dikenali peminat setempat ialah Khalid Ali, K. Gunasegaran, Redhuan Abdullah, Ismail Ibrahim, Ghani Ali, Yap Kam Choon dan Khan Hung Meng.
Veteran Persatuan Bola Sepak Melayu Johor yang diketuai Haji Ahmad Marakan membariskan, antara lain, Fadzli Ahmad, Yusof Mahamood, Fadzail Mat Mayan, Mohd Salleh Haron dan Yunos Ban.
Inderapura Pahang pula menampilkan, antara lain, bekas pemain nasional Malaysia, Ahmad Yusof, Abd Samad Mat Salleh dan Abdul Aziz.
Namun, kehadiran Cina Wilayah Persekutuan, Dewan Bandaraya KL dan Inderapura Pahang tidak harus diperkecil kerana setiap pasukan itu difahamkan telah membuat persiapan rapi bagi memeriahkan Pesta Bola Sepak Legenda PBMS ini.
Melayu Singapura akan menampilkan tiga pasukan – SMFC ‘A’ dan ‘B’ serta PBMS – yang akan membariskan antara lain Dollah Kassim, Razali Saad, Malek Awab, Othman Abdullah, Yakob Hashim, Shahri Rahim, Amin Nasir, Abdullah Noor, D. Tokijan dan Gulam Mohd.
Pesta bola sepak ini juga disertai Farrer Park Dynamo, Serani Singapura, Jurong Veteran dan Essex Lasallians.
Kehadiran Patrick Wee, Au-Yong Pak Kuan, Robert Sim, Lim Teng Sai, Lim Jit Tai, Ho Kwang Hock, bersama Tony Quah dan Ivan Quah dalam pasukan Chinese Oldies pasti bakal menyemarakkan lagi pesta bola sepak ini.
Format pertandingan akan meletakkan 15 pasukan peserta dalam tiga kumpulan dan bermain secara liga satu pusingan.
Juara dan naib johan kumpulan akan disertai dua lagi pasukan terbaik dalam setiap kumpulan untuk mara ke peringkat suku akhir hingga ke pertandingan akhir yang akan dijalankan secara kalah mati.
Cyberita
SINGAPORE : Players begin their careers not even thinking about joining the select Century Club: The journey is too long, the obstacles innumerable.
For any footballer to play at least 100 matches for his country – one of the most hallowed marks in sport – distinguishes him as one of its best players in a decade or more.
For the last seven years, Fandi Ahmad thought he had played 100 international matches for Singapore.
It now looks as if he is short of the mark, by six caps. The source of this confusion? An apparent administrative oversight by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS).
Fandi is not the only Singapore centurion who seems not to have actually crossed the 100-international match mark, according to Fifa records.
Former Lions goalkeeper David Lee, reported to have collected 105 caps in a 17-year international career, is short by 10 caps.
Ex-Lions skipper Nazri Nasir falls short by three matches. According to FAS records, he collected 104 international caps when he last played for Singapore against Malaysia in April 2004. But according to Fifa’s records, Nazri only has 97.
In a report on May 22, TODAY revealed that football’s world governing body Fifa had, for the first time, admitted two Singapore players to its exclusive Century Club.
The list released in March included defenders Aide Iskandar and S Subramani among a group of 137 elite footballers, including Franz Beckenbauer, Bobby Charlton and Paolo Maldini.
But apart from Fandi, former Singapore greats Samad Allapitchay, Lee and Malek Awab were missing from the list – even though all were inducted as centurions by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in a glitzy ceremony in 2000.
The AFC had based their selection on records submitted by the FAS in 1999. But a check by TODAY of Fandi, Lee and Nazri’s records, and of newspaper reports dating back to September 1979, showed that the FAS made mistakes with various games.
According to Fifa, only World Cup matches (including preliminary competitions), continental competitions like the Asian Cup (including qualifiers) and friendly matches between senior national teams qualify as ‘A’ internationals – the benchmark for a cap.
Friendly matches must satisfy certain criteria, such as neutral referees, to be recognised as ‘A’ internationals. In Fandi’s case, four of the six matches in question were friendlies that did not meet the bar. The other two occurred in the 1992 Merlion Cup, when Singapore took on the Thai Olympic side made up of a number of teenagers, and the South Korea B team.
The FAS admitted that its previous system of record-keeping was not ideal.
Said spokesman Eric Ong: “The FAS accepts that we may have under-invested in our records-keeping practices in the past.
“But we can assure everyone that for the past decade, all our records have been maintained and kept up to date diligently.”
Fandi, who represented Singapore for 19 years, could not hide his disappointment. “I guess you can say that I feel very let down,” said the 45-year-old, now based in Jakarta as coach of club Pelita Jaya.
“I played at nine SEA Games – that means I already have 36 caps, even if we did not make it to the latter stages.
“But we reached the final three times. How can I not have 100 caps?”
Tampines Rovers skipper Nazri said: “I am really disappointed. But at this point in my career, that’s something I cannot change.” –
Channel News Asia
When it comes to football, if there’s one thing a player has to be able to do, it’s adjust to change.
One minute a team can be up 1-0 and cruising towards victory, the next it can find itself fighting for its life after yielding two quick goals.
Surprisingly, it’s not all that different for a film-maker, who can start out making a movie about one thing and end up with a work about something else entirely.
That’s what happened with the homegrown documentary The Kallang Wave, which goes into general release tonight at the Picturehouse after being screened last month as part of the cinema’s first anniversary.
Produced at a cost of about $100,000 by a group of seven fresh mass communications graduates from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, The Kallang Wave began in 2003 as a nostalgic look at the National Stadium ahead of its planned demolition to make way for a new Sports Hub.
“But as we interviewed people like Fandi Ahmad, Malek Awab, Quah Kim Song and former Singapore national coaches P N Sivaji and Sebastian Yap to get their take on the stadium’s importance,” said Lee Yanfeng, who co-directed the film along with Hanafi Ramdan, “we realised that almost everyone wanted to talk more about Singapore football than the Grand Old Dame.”
What Lee, Hanafi and the five others ended up with was the story of Singapore – compiled partly through the editing down of about 120 hours of archive and interview footage — as told through the dreams and pain of the nation’s footballers and fans.
“We hoped to use football to talk about the bigger theme of the erosion of passion among Singaporeans,” said Daniel Yap, the film’s writer and narrator.
“The underlying message of the film is not to let the pursuit of success be at the expense of passion.”
The most poignant scene in the film was shot during an open-top bus ride by the Lions after they had captured their second Asean Football Championship – then known as Tiger Cup – in 2005.
While photos of the players displaying the trophy atop the bus have been widely seen, what many people don’t realise is that the team was barely acknowledged as they did the rounds of bustling Orchard Road.
“We had just won the Tiger Cup for the second time,” recalled Lee.
“But as the players soaked in the celebration and waved enthusiastically to the crowd along the busy streets, almost no one bothered to wave back.”
Much as the film-makers hope that The Kallang Wave becomes a widely-seen record of a rich period in Singapore sports history, above all, their aim is to provide audiences with food for thought.
“We want people to think about the film after watching it, and hope that they will ask themselves the questions that we did,” said Yap.
Added Lee of the three-year process of reviewing the nation’s sporting history: “It made us feel so sad to ask ourselves – ‘What happened to Singapore’s passion?’.” –
Channel News Asia
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