Lets put it straight, im not a fanatic fan of Malaysian football (probably the last I had interest was the days of scott ollerenshaw, merzagua abd razak, radhi che din, azman adnan etc.). From the current national squad, i only recognise safee sali and khairul che fahmi. This is my honest assessment on the friendly match between Australia and Malaysia. While I wasn’t really hopeful of Malaysia winning or scoring, I would still have hoped that Malaysia put on a real fight. To be honest, I was fairly disappointed with the spirit shown by the Malaysian players. Why? Even though it was just a friendly game, our players should’ve played far better than what we witnessed on Friday. To disappoint the Malaysian fans (mostly students), some travelled as far as from Melbourne (~8 hour journey) and Sydney (~3 hours) is an utter shame. With the exception of a handful of players, most of the Malaysian players who were on the field lack enthusiasm. Sloppy passing, body language as if they were not keen to play etc. If you guys were at the stadium, the Malaysian supporters were cheering the loudest in the stadium supporting our team. Even a couple of Aussie blokes were giving credit to our supporters despite us being hammered by the Socceroos. To be honest, the team should’ve apologise to the supporters. I’m saying all this not to ‘kutuk’ the team, but all of you should’ve played better than that. To fly >8 hours from KL to Canberra via Sydney and play like that, you guys are just wasting FAM’s money or whoever’s money that is sponsoring you guys.
