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Futra ketua pasukan baru negara

KUALA LUMPUR -- Ketua jurulatih baru, pengurusan baru, pemilihan pemain baru dan kali ini ketua pasukan baru pula dilantik dalam skuad sepak takraw elit negara yang tidak lain tidak bukan, Mohd. Futra Abd. Ghani.

Pelibas regu emas Sukan SEA 2005 itu menggalas tanggungjawab besar tersebut hasil keputusan sebulat suara yang dicapai dalam satu perjumpaan pasukan ketika mereka melapor diri di Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN), Bukit Jalil bagi sesi latihan pusat untuk Sukan Asia Guangzhou, kelmarin.

Ketua jurulatih, Iskandar Arshad yang mengumumkan keputusan itu ketika sesi latihan ringan semalam, berkata: "Selain pengalaman, dia menjadi pilihan kami atas beberapa kelebihan dan ciri-ciri tertentu untuk memimpin pasukan ini."


Pelantikan Futra agak mengejut memandangkan dia hanya dipanggil menerusi Kejohanan Piala Presiden PSM, awal bulan ini setelah menarik diri selepas Sukan Asia Doha 2006 biarpun berjasa bersama Normanizam Ahmad dan Zulkarnain Arif dalam mengakhiri kemarau emas 12 tahun negara.

Ketika Sukan SEA XXV di Laos, Disember lalu, pengumpan regu ketiga, Mohd. Hafizie Manap ditugaskan mengetuai skuad negara yang menyaksikan mereka hanya mampu meraih sebutir pingat perak berpasukan dan sebutir gangsa antara regu.

Iskandar yang mengambil alih jawatan daripada Haris Abdul Rahman yang tidak disambung khidmatnya sejak bulan lalu, memberitahu: "Azman Nasruddin (pelibas simpanan 2005 dan berpengalaman Sukan Asia 2002 dan 2006) pula dilantik sebagai penolong ketua pasukan negara."

Sementara itu, mengulas mengenai sesi latihan Sukan Asia, Iskandar berkata, hanya tiga pemain yang dikecualikan daripada sesi latihan iaitu Zulkarnain, Khairul Anuar Ibrahim dan Syafiq Ab. Rahman kerana mereka perlu membereskan urusan majikan dan hal peribadi.

"Bagi fasa latihan empat minggu pertama ini, kita banyak bertumpu kepada sesi kecergasan dan fizikal di Institut Sukan Negara (ISN).

"Pendedahan antarabangsa yang terdekat bagi mereka ialah Piala Datuk Bandar Hatyai di Thailand (dari 1 hingga 4 April). Kami akan menghantar dua regu walaupun masih terlalu awal untuk menilai dan memilih pemain atau gandingan mana di antara 24 pelatih sekarang," katanya.

Sementara itu Futra, seorang guru Pendidikan Jasmani ketika ditemui berkata: "Kepercayaan oleh jurulatih kepada saya ini turut memerlukan kerjasama rakan sepasukan demi membentuk sebuah pasukan yang kuat dan kembali digeruni lawan.

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