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Bawah 20 ke Pra Sukan SEA


SKUAD Harimau Muda gigih berlatih bagi menghadapi kejohanan Pra Sukan SEA di Vientiane, Laos dari 2 hingga 6 Oktober depan.


MALAYSIA hanya akan menghantar skuad bawah 20 tahun (B-20) negara, Harimau Muda untuk beraksi pada Kejohanan Bola Sepak Jemputan Pra Sukan SEA 2009 di Vientiane, Laos dari 2 hingga 6 Oktober depan.

Ini kerana, semua pemain skuad B-23 negara kendalian K. Rajagobal akan beraksi pada siangan Piala Malaysia bermula Sabtu ini kecuali enam pemain Harimau Muda iaitu Ahmad Shakir Md. Ali, K. Gurusamy, Fandi Othman, Muslim Ahmad, Mahali Jasuli dan Faizal Muhamad.

Jurulatih Harimau Muda, Ong Kim Swee berkata, seramai 29 pemainnya termasuk enam pemain tersebut mula turun menjalani latihan petang semalam sebagai persiapan menghadapi Pra Sukan SEA itu.

"Sebenarnya skuad Harimau Muda bakal menghadapi dua kejohanan. Selepas Pra Sukan SEA di Laos ini, kami akan terus ke Vietnam untuk Kejohanan Jemputan B-21 Piala Newspaper 2009 bermula 9 Oktober depan.

"Daripada 29 pelatih yang ada ini, kita akan berlepas ke Laos Rabu depan dengan hanya membawa 20 pemain terbaik gabungan separuh pemain B-18 dan separuh pemain B-20," katanya ketika ditemui pada sesi latihan di Wisma FAM, Kelana Jaya petang semalam.

Menurut Kim Swee, bagi Pra Sukan SEA, Malaysia akan membuka tirai saingan bertemu Thailand pada 2 Oktober diikuti perlawanan menentang Vietnam pada 4 Oktober dan Laos pada 6 Oktober.

"Kejohanan berlangsung secara liga satu pusingan. Hanya Laos turunkan skuad B-23 manakala Thailand dan Vietnam akan hantar pasukan B-19 yang pernah kita bertemu pada Kejohanan B-19 ASEAN (AFF) di Vietnam Ogos lalu.

"Kejohanan ini satu pengalaman baik buat pemain muda kita terutama enam pemain kita yang akan bersama skuad B-23 ke Sukan SEA Disember depan. Mereka dapat mengambil kesempatan merasai suasana dan keadaan padang di Laos," jelasnya.

Bagi saingan Piala Newspaper 2009 pula, Kim Swee berkata, Malaysia akan bertemu Iran B-21 pada 9 Oktober dan China B-21 pada 11 Oktober bagi saingan Kumpulan B manakala Kumpulan A pula membariskan tuan rumah, Vietnam, Thailand dan Singapura.

"Kita diundi dalam kumpulan sukar tetapi kita harus cuba beri saingan untuk mara ke separuh akhir. Dua kejohanan ini cukup penting sebagai persiapan kita ke pusingan kelayakan Kejohanan B-19 Asia (AFC) 2010 di China, November depan," ujarnya.

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