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KBS sasar skuad bola sepak layak Olimpik


DEMAM kejayaan bola sepak pada Sukan Sea XXV di Laos, tampak belum kebah dengan Kementerian Belia dan Sukan (KBS) kini membayangkan kemungkinan meletakkan sukan itu dalam program Road To London 2012, untuk persiapan ke pusingan kelayakan Sukan Olimpik.


Menterinya, Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek, berkata berdasarkan kepada kejayaan skuad bimbingan K Rajagobal meraih emas di Vientianne, selayaknya ia dipertimbangkan untuk dibantu menjejakkan kaki di Olimpik, yang kali terakhir dilakukan ketika skuad negara diterajui Soh Chin Aun pada 1980 di Moscow.

“Kementerian akan pertimbangkan untuk meletakkan bola sepak dalam program ini. Bola sepak adalah sukan yang kita tidak boleh ketepikan dan kita lihat negara seperti Laos dan Vietnam, betapa pasukannya sentiasa berada sama taraf dengan Malaysia, di sebalik serba kekurangan.




“Kita yang mempunyai pelbagai kemudahan termasuk Stadium Nasional dengan kapasiti 100,000 penonton tetapi skuad bola sepak kita merudum pada satu ketika dulu dan sekarang baru menunjukkan peningkatan.

“Perkembangan bola sepak negara memerlukan tempoh yang panjang tetapi saya pasti kita akan dapat melakukannya dan menjadi sekurang-kurangnya yang terbaik di rantau ini.”

Sementara itu, Ahmad Shabery berkata, tidak wujud pertentangan kepentingan mengenai cadangan kontroversi menggunakan dana hasil daripada perolehan cukai dan duti import ke atas rokok untuk program pembangunan sukan negara.
Sebaliknya, kata Ahmad Shabery, ia akan dapat membantu meningkatkan prestasi sukan negara ini yang memerlukan dana yang tinggi untuk melahirkan atlit berbakat yang dapat bersaing di peringkat tertinggi sehingga Sukan Olimpik.

“Ia bukannya kita menerima tajaan secara langsung, sebaliknya meminta sebahagian daripada wang melalui cukai yang dikenakan ke atas penjualan rokok disalurkan untuk pembangunan sukan.

“Ketika ini pun wang daripada cukai ke atas rokok digunakan untuk peruntukan untuk program ataupun jabatan-jabatan berkaitan... maka saya rasa tidak ada kesalahan untuk sebahagian daripadanya diperuntukkan untuk pembangunan sukan,” katanya. BHARIAN

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