{"id":3277,"date":"2009-02-02T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2009-02-02T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:19:10","slug":"coach-sathianathan-sacked-for-telling-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/02\/02\/coach-sathianathan-sacked-for-telling-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Sathianathan sacked for telling the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you believe this? Coach is sacked for telling the truth<\/a>? For being brave?\u00a0 I wonder why the FAM did not sack itself – starting from the very top itself.\u00a0 They’ve been in power for decades and find it easy to blame everyone else except themselves. How convenient. How many chances do they need? Why are we forced to accept sub-standard management? Year after year we only get excuses and crap from FAM. Spending money on forums, seminars, workshops, etc – but end results same only. No wonder we are graded “D” by AFC on management. Why not we just get some of the league management team from other countries and pay them to run FAM and the whole football structure? At least we can blame the foreigners if things still fail!<\/p>\n

I remember seeing angry Sathianathan on TV making the famous “M-League is not football” comment. Practically every expert who had done research\/consultation have provided probable solutions. We have had foreign coaches, foreign players, different rules for practically every season of the football league etc. But we have had the same FAM leaders all this time. And our football team never did change for the better.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t take a genius to realise that everything from the grassroot to the top must be revamped. Acts, rules and procedure must be reinvented. Players choosen without fear or favour. Scientific methods incorporated. Leagues to be started from pre-school itself – under 7 all the way till under-23. So many things can be learnt from practically every country who is about us in the footbal standing. That’s about 150 countries!<\/p>\n

Year after\u00a0 year we tend to hear the same problems – salary and EPF not paid, foreign players taking legal action, national team losing here and there, changes of coaches in state teams, players not fit, lack of funds and sponsorship, changes in league rules and regulation, stadium fees unpaid, matches postponed, etc. All this are pointing to failures in FAM itself – lack of willpower, enforcement and proper long-term strategy. Being weak and probably having some self-serving agenda.<\/p>\n

Now the coach is being made scapegoat. Pity the guy. He could only work with the stuff he had. With only 3 fit players, we must be holding majlis kesyukuran for being trashed only 5-0.<\/p>\n

If it was up to me, I’ll call the state of football in Malaysia as a criminal act. And the criminals are in FAM and state FAs.<\/p>\n

FAM need to be man enough to take in the chin. Not be cowards. You can sack coaches. But you can’t sack the public who tells you “M-League is not football”!<\/p>\n

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The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) today decided to terminate the contracts of national head coach B. Sathianathan and national team manager Datuk Soh Chin Aun.<\/p>\n<\/table>\n

FAM deputy president Datuk Redzuan Tan Sri Sheikh Ahmad said the termination of Sathianathan and Chin Aun\u2019s contracts was to pave the way for new faces to head the national football team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FAM executive committee meeting chaired by FAM president Sultan Ahmad Shah were unanimous in their decision to terminate Sathianathan and Chin Aun\u2019s services. Sathianathan will be given a month\u2019s notice while Chin Aun\u2019s termination takes effect immediately,\u201d Redzuan told reporters at Wisma FAM after a three-hour meeting here today.<\/p>\n

Redzuan however, did not reveal the actual reasons for the termination of the duo\u2019s contracts but football critics feel the 0-5 defeat to UAE in the Asian Cup qualifiers last Wednesday and Sathianathan\u2019s comment about the M-League could have weighed heavily against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe post of the new head coach will be discussed soon by the management committee for the national team headed by Sultan Ahmad Shah,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Redzuan added that FAM had identified a list of local coaches to replace Sathianathan who had guided the national Under-23 squad to win the Merdeka Cup in 2007 before being appointed head coach of the senior team in September 2007.<\/p>\n

As for the post of team manager, Redzuan said Datuk Capt. Gulzar Mohamad, one of the four FAM vice presidents, would replace Chin Aun who was actually a stand in manager for FAM deputy president Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar.<\/p>\n

\u201cKhairy was initially appointed team manager but since he could not fully commit himself, he had sought Chin Aun\u2019s assistance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that the committee also decided in today\u2019s meeting that seven states and clubs that still owed players and coaches RM620,000 in arrears as wages, must settle the outstanding amount by Dec 31 or face drastic action.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they failed to settle the arrears, FAM will take drastic action, including barring them from competing in the M-League next season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

FAM has also picked a seven-member delegation to meet Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Wednesday to discuss the direction and future of Malaysian football, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Can you believe this? Coach is sacked for telling the truth? For being brave?\u00a0 I wonder why the FAM did not sack itself – starting from the very top itself.\u00a0 They’ve been in power for decades and find it easy to blame everyone else except themselves. How convenient. How many chances do they need? Why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117,112,90],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-crime","tag-discrimination","tag-role-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}