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Tugas berat Karathu, Raja Azlan Shah


KARATHU (kanan) dan Raja Azlan Shah akan mengemudi Perak bagi menghadapi kempen Liga Malaysia musim depan.


"SAYA perlu kerja keras."
Itu antara ungkapan awal M. Karathu selepas diumumkan sebagai ketua jurulatih Perak yang baru bagi menggantikan Steve Darby.

Karathu mengakui, dia terpaksa bekerja keras bagi membentuk sebuah pasukan yang mantap selepas kehilangan ramai pemain berpengalaman.

Antara pemain utama Perak yang berpindah termasuklah Hamsani Ahmad, Nasril Nourdin, Chan Wing Hong, K. Nanthakumar, Azlan Zainal, Hardi Jaafar, Khalid Jamlus dan Shahrulnizam Mustafa.

Manakala ketua pasukan, Ahmad Shahrul Azhar pula dikatakan mengambil keputusan untuk bersara daripada arena bola sepak kerana faktor usia.

"Saya hanya mempunyai tiga pemain berpengalaman dan selebihnya merupakan pemain-pemain muda yang beraksi dalam Piala Presiden musim lalu," jelas Karathu ketika ditemui semalam.

Selain itu, bekas penjaga gol Selangor, Megat Amir Faisal serta dua pemain Perak musim lalu, S. Subramaniam dan Razali Umar Kandasamy merupakan tiga pemain berpengalaman yang disenaraikan dalam skuad Seladang musim depan.

"Saya berharap ketiga-tiga pemain berkenaan akan menjadi tonggak utama kepada pemain-pemain muda yang lain," tambah Karathu yang akan dibantu penolong jurulatih, Raja Azlan Shah Raja Shoib.

Pengumuman Karathu sebagai jurulatih Perak telah dibuat oleh Presiden Persatuan Bolasepak Perak (Pafa), Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin.

"Beliau (Karathu) dipilih berdasarkan pengalaman luasnya dalam permainan ini dan pernah membimbing banyak pasukan menggondol berbagai piala dalam sukan ini.

"Saya yakin Karathu mampu membawa pasukan ini kembali ke persada bola sepak tanah air walaupun hampir sebahagian pemain adalah pemain muda dari pasukan Piala Presiden yang diketengahkan musim ini," katanya pada sidang akhbar selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat pertama Pafa bagi tahun 2008/2010 di pejabat persatuan itu di Ipoh semalam.

Karathu pernah membimbing Perak beberapa musim pada tahun 80-an dan membawa skuad Seladang itu menjuarai Piala FA pertama pada tahun 1990.

Mohammad Nizar yang juga Menteri Besar Perak berkata, mesyuarat itu juga membuat beberapa lantikan bagi mengisi kekosongan jawatan Ahli Majlis, Setiausaha, Bendahari dan Pengurus Pasukan.

Anggota Exco kerajaan negeri Jamaluddin Mohd Rodzi dilantik sebagai pengurus pasukan manakala Setiausaha Akhbar Menteri Besar, Anuar Hashim dilantik sebagai Setiausaha Pafa.

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