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Salahkan media pandangan cetek

MELAKA - Jurulatih badminton kebangsaan, Datuk Misbun Sidek berkata, pemain yang menyalahkan media sebagai punca kegagalan mereka pada Piala Thomas berfikiran cetek.
Jurulatih perseorangan negara itu menegaskan, media memainkan peranan yang amat besar dalam menobatkan sukan badminton sejak dari dulu hingga sekarang.

Katanya, tanpa ada peranan yang dimainkan media tidak mungkin Malaysia mampu berada pada kedudukan terbaik di ranking dunia.

Malah beliau turut menafikan, bahawa media antara punca pasukan Malaysia tersingkir pada separuh akhir Piala Thomas selepas kalah 0-3 kepada China, sekali gus gagal merampas Piala Thomas selepas 18 tahun.
"Tanggapan media menjadi punca kekalahan skuad negara adalah tidak benar sama sekali. Itu merupakan pandangan yang cetek kerana saya amat menghargai dan mengalu-alukan laporan yang dibuat oleh wartawan.
"Tidak wajar menuding jari kepada mana-mana pihak ataupun pemain sendiri. Saya juga tidak salahkan pemain saya sebaliknya kita kena akur dengan kekalahan ini kerana China memiliki segala kekuatan dan sebenarnya bukan rezeki kita tahun ini untuk merampas Piala Thomas," katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita pada majlis penutup program Kem Badminton bersama Kelab Nusa Mahsuri anjuran Jabatan Belia dan Sukan negeri Melaka di Kompleks Sukan Ayer Keroh, semalam.
Majlis penutup telah disempurnakan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kebajikan, Perpaduan, Belia dan Sukan negeri, Datuk Ab. Karim Sulaiman.

Program yang diadakan selama dua hari itu dikendalikan oleh Misbun bersama adiknya, Rahman dan bekas pemain kebangsaan, Roslin Hashim.

Kata Misbun lagi, semua pemain mesti akur dengan kekalahan kepada China dan ia bukan disebabkan latihan yang tidak mencukupi tetapi lawan sememangnya terlalu ampuh dan unggul untuk ditewaskan.
"Dakwaan persiapan dan latihan tidak mencukupi adalah tidak benar. Pada saya, pemain telah memberikan sepenuh tenaga dan berjuang habis-habisan tetapi hakikat yang perlu diterima ialah China memang terlalu hebat dan berada kemuncaknya," ujarnya.

Skuad badminton negara gagal melangkah ke perlawanan akhir apabila tewas 0-3 kepada China, manakala skuad Piala Uber pula disekat oleh Indonesia di peringkat suku akhir tewas juga dengan keputusan 0-3.
Buat Misbun, kegagalan tersebut sepatutnya menjadi pengajaran dan pelajaran terbaik buat semua pihak.
Beliau tidak menafikan Persatuan Badminton Malaysia (BAM) harus memberikan tumpuan kepada melahirkan lebih ramai pemain remaja sebagai pelapis sebagai persiapan menghadapi Piala Thomas yang akan datang.

Bagi tujuan tersebut beliau berkata, Kelab Nusa Mahsuri akan mengorak langkah membantu BAM untuk mencungkil bakat-bakat baru khususnya pemain berpontensi di Melaka.

"Melaka akan menjadi hub bagi zon Selatan untuk Kelab Nusa Mahsuri mencungkil bakat-bakal baru kerana di sini banyak kemudahan yang mampu disediakan oleh kerajaan negeri," ujarnya.


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