KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Hockey Confederation (MHC) competitions
committee are in favour of reviving “Kem Bakat” after each age-group
tournaments as a means to identify and develop new talents.
Newly-appointed competitions committee chairman M. Gobinathan said yesterday that this concept used to provide youngsters with a platform to gain valuable exposure and those selected were given a chance to train with national coaches.
“For some reason, it was discontinued. When we organise domestic meets, there has to be some objectives to achieve. So, we want to work with the development committee to bring back the Kem Bakat concept,” he said.
“For a starter, we can pick 30-odd talented players at the end of a tournament and hold a one-week or 10-day long special camp. These camps had produced talented players in the past.”
Gobinathan said that he will look into streamlining the rules and regulations. “Other than that, we also need to review the drawing up of fixtures for tournaments so as to ensure that hosts have ample time and opportunity to publicise and promote the tournaments concerned,” he said.
“That’s why we need to have a full-time competitions secretary or manager ... handling this on a part-time basis is not working. There are a lot of admininstrative matters to handle for now.”
Gobinathan said there are no plans to add any more tournaments to the MHC calendar, though he would like to see the existing ones improvised and made more relevant.
He also agreed with calls for changes to be made to tournaments in order to keep them going.
“It’s more important that we find ways to see that these tournaments remain relevant. We can make them better and also ensure they generate publicity so as to attract more spectators. We do have a good mix of tournaments,” he explained.
He said they will meet soon to draw up the calendar for next season
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Newly-appointed competitions committee chairman M. Gobinathan said yesterday that this concept used to provide youngsters with a platform to gain valuable exposure and those selected were given a chance to train with national coaches.
“For some reason, it was discontinued. When we organise domestic meets, there has to be some objectives to achieve. So, we want to work with the development committee to bring back the Kem Bakat concept,” he said.
“For a starter, we can pick 30-odd talented players at the end of a tournament and hold a one-week or 10-day long special camp. These camps had produced talented players in the past.”
Gobinathan said that he will look into streamlining the rules and regulations. “Other than that, we also need to review the drawing up of fixtures for tournaments so as to ensure that hosts have ample time and opportunity to publicise and promote the tournaments concerned,” he said.
“That’s why we need to have a full-time competitions secretary or manager ... handling this on a part-time basis is not working. There are a lot of admininstrative matters to handle for now.”
Gobinathan said there are no plans to add any more tournaments to the MHC calendar, though he would like to see the existing ones improvised and made more relevant.
He also agreed with calls for changes to be made to tournaments in order to keep them going.
“It’s more important that we find ways to see that these tournaments remain relevant. We can make them better and also ensure they generate publicity so as to attract more spectators. We do have a good mix of tournaments,” he explained.
He said they will meet soon to draw up the calendar for next season
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