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MSN mahu temukan legenda berjiran

KUALA LUMPUR - Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN) bersedia mencontohi perlawanan bola sepak Piala Sultan Selangor dengan menganjurkan sebuah pertandingan khas yang menemukan bintang legenda sepak takraw Malaysia dengan lawan seangkatan dari Thailand sekiranya mendapat sambutan hangat penyertaan dan penonton.

Ketua Pengarah MSN, Datuk Zolkples Embong berkata, perlawanan berkonsep nostalgia perebutan Piala Malaysia antara Selangor-Singapura itu mungkin mampu diterapkan ke sukan sepak takraw dan sebagai langkah awal, sambutan dalam Libas Memori 2009 Sabtu ini bakal menjadi kayu pengukurnya.

Perlawanan khas nostalgia itu turut membuka peluang peminat setia sukan ini termasuk generasi baru, mengimbas semula aksi jaguh lama musuh tradisi Malaysia seperti Pakdee Dangwatanapaibul, Surat Na Chiengmai, Veeras Na Nongkhai dan Kriengkrai Mutalai.

"Ia satu idea yang baik untuk mengembalikan kegemilangan dan populariti sepak takraw Malaysia dengan mengambil contoh Piala Sultan Selangor yang diadakan secara tahunan," katanya pada sidang akhbar mengumumkan kejohanan khas untuk bintang legenda sepak takraw negara itu di Casa 1 MSN, Bukit Jalil, semalam.

Menurut Zolkples, kejohanan ini turut membuka peluang pemain negara generasi sekarang menimba sedikit sebanyak ilmu sepak takraw daripada aksi bintang silam yang masih berbisa dari segi kemahiran dan berpengalaman luas walaupun dengan tenaga dan kepantasan yang agak terbatas.

Katanya, Libas Memori 2009 di Kompleks Sukan MSN, Taman Keramat, Kuala Lumpur akan menampilkan nama besar sepak takraw satu ketika dulu seperti Adnan Saidin, Azman Ismail, Malek Shamsuddin, Zabidi Shariff, Iskandar Arshad, Rosli Ab. Rahman, Suhaimi Yusof, Ku Halim Ku Musa, Nordin Sabaruddin, Baharom Johar, Yusoff Chik, Mohd. Noor Abdullah dan ramai lagi.

"Saya juga menyeru pemain kebangsaan sekarang meluangkan cuti latihan hari itu dengan menonton aksi mereka kerana peluang ini amat sukar diperoleh.

"Kami mahu menjadikan persaingannya lebih terbuka dan seimbang memandangkan dua regu dari MSN dan wakil media turut diundang menyertainya," kata Zolkples yang juga bekas tekong juara Majlis Sukan Sekolah-Sekolah Malaysia (MSSM) dan pernah mendapat bimbingan Allahyarham Rubaii Daud Halim, bekas jurulatih Adnan pada era 80-an.

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