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'Ada masa sedia pasukan mantap'

Oleh Mohd Fadzrie Hazis
fadzrie@bharian.com.my


IMBAS kembali aksi hambar Malaysia ketika menentang Singapura pada Sukan Sea Korat 2007.

Azzuddin yakin skuad berwibawa ke Laos

KELEWATAN Persatuan Bola Sepak Malaysia (FAM) menamakan jurulatih skuad bawah 23 tahun kebangsaan (B-23) mampu menjejaskan peluang negara menamatkan penantian pingat emas selama 20 tahun di Sukan Sea Laos, Disember ini.

Ketika negara jiran seperti Vietnam sudah mula membentuk barisannya sejak tahun lalu, FAM masih belum dapat memastikan siapa yang akan diberi kepercayaan untuk mengendalikan skuad B-23.


Namun bagi setiausaha agungnya, Datuk Azzuddin Ahmad, beliau masih mempertahankan hujah bahawa barisan negara akan mempunyai barisan mantap dan masa mencukupi untuk persiapan.

“Kami akan menyusun beberapa aksi perlawanan persahabatan antarabangsa buat skuad B-23 selain turut bersaing dalam Pestabola Merdeka, tetapi ia akan diumumkan selepas kami menamakan jurulatih B-23 selepas mesyuarat Exco awal bulan depan.

“Saya percaya kami dapat membentuk barisan yang mampu mencabar kerana beberapa pemain senior masih layak beraksi di Sukan Sea nanti,” kata Azzuddin.

Namun, realiti yang mungkin tidak disedari FAM ialah jurulatih yang bakal dilantik mengendalikan skuad B-23 pasti memerlukan sedikit masa untuk membentuk keserasian dan barisan yang mantap.

Barisan B-23 Vietnam membuktikan potensi mereka apabila muncul juara Pestabola Merdeka tahun lalu dan menjelang Sukan Sea Disember ini, mereka sudah beraksi bersama dalam tempoh lebih daripada 14 bulan.

Jika dibandingkan dengan skuad B-23 kebangsaan yang masih belum dibentuk, mereka akan hanya mempunyai tempoh persiapan kurang dari sembilan bulan sebelum Sukan Sea bermula apabila jurulatih baru dinamakan awal bulan depan.

Azzuddin sebelum ini juga tidak menolak kemungkinan FAM mengambil seorang jurulatih untuk mengendalikan skuad senior dan B-23 serentak yang dilihat sebagai langkah penjimatan kos.

Tetapi pendekatan itu sudah terbukti gagal sebelum ini dan mungkin ada baiknya jika FAM mencontohi langkah Vietnam yang mengambil dua pengendali berbeza untuk skuad senior dan B-23 mereka.

Hasilnya, skuad senior Vietnam kendalian Henrique Calisto muncul juara Piala Suzuki-AFF tahun lalu manakala skuad B-23 mereka muncul naib juara di Sukan Sea Korat, tatkala barisan senior dan B-23 kendalian B Sathianthan gagal dalam kedua-dua kejohanan itu.

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