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Menteri pun letak jawatan: Zol

Oleh Meor Hisham Zulkifli dan Syed Riduan Ahmad
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'Saya tidak beri tekanan kepada sesiapa, ia lumrah dalam kepimpinan'

"TEPUK dada tanya selera," kata Ketua Pengarah Majlis Sukan Negara, Datuk Zolkples Embong ketika ditanya mengenai kesediaan Presiden Persatuan Sepak Takraw Malaysia (PSM), Datuk Ahmad Ismail untuk mengundur diri.

"Saya tidak memberi tekanan kepada sesiapa tetapi perkara ini lumrah bagi sesebuah kepimpinan. Pemimpin negara pun akan letak jawatan jika gagal menerajui negaranya dengan betul," katanya.


Pada masa sama, pemberontakan semakin jelas apabila ahli Majlis PSM, secara terbuka mencabar MSN supaya membubarkan program takraw, mengetepikan larangan Ahmad yang meminta semua pegawai PSM tidak menyalahkan MSN atau Institut Sukan Negara (ISN).

Ahli Majlis, Tengku Adnan Tengku Burhanuddin yang juga penyelaras PSM-MSN, semalam mengulangi pendiriannya mencabar langkah MSN mahu mengurang bajet ke atas persatuan itu.

"Saya minta anda tanya Datuk Zol, katakan berani atau tidak MSN gugurkan program sepak takraw?. Biar mereka kecilkan peruntukan. Selepas ini jangan tanya kalau kami buat latihan untuk atlit Sukan Asia hanya dalam masa lima hari," katanya.
AKSI pemain septakraw Malaysia (baju kuning), ketika menentang Thailand pada Sukan Sea ke-25 di Veintiane, Laos, awal bulan ini. Malaysia hanya mampu mendapat pingat perak. - Foto Bernama

Zolkples ketika ditemui selepas Majlis Penutup Konvensyen Sukan Kebangsaan berkata, MSN selama ini melayan sepak takraw dengan baik termasuk membayar gaji jurulatih, pegawai penyelaras dan elaun atlit.

"Malah skuad wanita yang sepatutnya hanya program separuh masa, tetapi kita anggap sebagai program penuh. Kegagalan di Laos perlu dinilai sendiri oleh PSM. Kaji secara mendalam kesilapan mereka. Ini tidak.

"Jurulatih mengadu mereka tiada suara. Banyak campur tangan dalam latihan dan pemilihan atlit. Bagi saya, tiada siapa yang lebih besar daripada sukan. Individu atau persatuan tidak penting. Kami akan tetap jalankan program walaupun mereka keluar."

Ahad lalu, Ahmad menyatakan kesediaannya berundur pada pemilihan yang dijadual Februari ini kerana menganggap PSM bertanggungjawab penuh terhadap kegagalan negara di Sukan Sea Laos baru-baru ini.

Skuad negara hanya membawa pulang satu perak dan satu gangsa dari Vientiane dan lebih memalukan apabila tewas kepada Laos, negara yang sebelum ini dianggap begitu kerdil dalam sukan itu.

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