National Football Squad for Asian Cup

Semalam aku dengan member-member rajinkan diri pergi tengok Malaysia belasah Cambodia 6-0 di Stadium Shah Alam. Not much we can say about their performance. One thing for sure, majority yang hadir bukan penyokong bolasepak, tapi pengkritik. Pengkritik yang betul-betul ikhlas dan sedikit kejam. Makian dan cemuhan mereka tak kenal player, pegawai, setiausaha agong, referee, atau siapa sahaja. Termasuklah Rita Rudaini yang datang menyokong 'abang' tercinta. Si Aidil pula berjaya mengadiahkan buah hati beliau dengan satu jaringan cantik pada minit-minit akhir.

So, aku pun terpanggil to give my 2 cents regarding Cikgu Jan's selection.

NATIONAL TEAM PRESS CONFERENCE
DATE and TIME: 17th June, 2007 at 2pm
VENUE: Grand Blue Wave Hotel, Shah Alam

National coach named his squad for Asian Cup Final this July.

Since ramai peminat rajin analysis perkembangan bolasepak antarabangsa, biarlah aku cuba analysis bolasepak tempatan. Susah juga since aku jarang tengok bola tempatan kalau bukan pasukan Perak main. To be fair, I will not throw my sting opinion, let talk about statistic and figures.

Antara semua penyerang kebangsaan yang dinamakan, cuma used-to-be Kedah darling, Akmal Rizal berjaya buat comeback this season and managed to register 6 goals. Aku juga shock bila aku found out dalam list scorer untuk Super League there are no Safee Sali, Indra or Hairuddin names. If the record from FAM.org.my is correct, 3 out of 4 national strikers failed to score even a single goal for their team in Super League. Maybe Norizan select them base on their performance in FA Cup or Malaysian Cup, which I failed to found any goal scorer record. There are only 2 local players inside top 10 goal scorer of Super League. And both of them failed to secure a place in national squad.

Keita Mandjou (Perak) – 19

Shahrazain Said (Brunei) – 19

Marlon James (Kedah) – 17

Walter Silva (Johor FC) – 16

Khalid Jamlus (Perak) – 12

Sharlei Miranda (T’ganu) – 11

Chepita (Perlis) – 10

Azlan Ismail (Perlis) – 9

Frederico Santos (N.9) – 9

Chaswe Nsofwa (TMFC) – 8

Even if we divide the players base on teams they represent, it will raise few questions. Majority player, excluding the waiting list, are from Pahang and Selangor both teams has 4 representatives. While Super League powerhouse Perak and Kedah only has 2 players, and only sole representative from Perlis and Terengganu. Pahang's and Selangor's point combined, still can't make them leader of Super League.

Statistic from Premiere League also did not helping us to figure out how Norizan pick his player. Local top scorer there did not make a cut. Even players from lowly PKNS and Kuala Lumpur manage to squeeze in.

3 Questions:

1. Why Norizan did not pick player base on current form?

2. Is it true, Norizan play a very small part in selecting the player?

3. Asian Cup Final, some sort of FAM rewarding their senior player?

Tapi tak kira kalau mereka ambil budak Sekolah Bukit Jalil sekalipun, aku akan cuba untuk pergi menonton sambil menyokong dan mengkritik pasukan negara Julai nanti.

All The Best...!

Complete team list:

Penjaga gol:
Azizon Kadir (Negeri Sembilan), Suffian Abdul Rahman (TMFC);

Pertahanan:
Kaironnisam Sahabuddin Hussain (UPB-MyTeam), Hamzani Omar (Johor-Pasir Gudang), Nazrulerwan Makmor (PKNS), Fauzie Nan (Perlis), K Nanthakumar (Perak), V Thirumurugan (Kedah), Rosdi Talib (Pahang), Aidil Zafuan Abdul Radzak (Negeri Sembilan);

Tengah:
Hardi Jaafar (TMFC), Norhafiz Zamani Misbah (Pahang), Ivan Yusoff (Kuala Lumpur), Fadzli Saari (Selangor), Shahrulnizam Mustapha (Perak), Eddy Helmi Manan (Johor FC), Nor Farhan Muhammad (Terengganu), Ahmad Fauzi Shaari (Kedah), Shukor Adan (Selangor);

Penyerang:
Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli (Selangor), Safee Sali (Selangor), Indra Putra Mahayuddin (Pahang), Hairuddin Omar (Pahang).

Simpanan:
Syed Adney Syed Hussain (Selangor), S Subramaniam (Perak), Khyril Muhymeen Zambri (Kedah), Amirulhadi Zainal (Selangor), Azi Shahri, Azmi (Perlis), Rezal Zambery Yahya (Negeri Sembilan), Ronny Harun (Sabah).

Picture and statistic from www.fam.org.my