Profesionalism In Sports

There's a topic Profesinalisme Dalam Sukan in the Kursus Pengurusan Sukan Kebangsaan Curriculum (KPSK) organised by National Sports Council.

In relation to the topic, I found this Azraai Khor's post on Facebook

He was talking about professionalism among local players. Who should shoulder the responsibility to educate our players who are all mostly youngsters. 

Majority of them started playing in the local league as soon as they left school and sad to say that many have poor education background. 

As what Azraai Khor mentioned in his posting, these players do not have  the skill to manage their income during the time they are attached with a team. They might not have Plan B with their income to save for the rainy days. 

Sports is a risky activity and athletes who earn a living through sports can have their income jeapordised anytime. Injury and decreasing of skill is the worst enemy. 

When I was lecturing about training under the National Coaching Accreditation Scheme's (SPKK) Sports Science, I always tell the coaches who attended the course that "Injury is the begining of the end of an athlete's career" relating to how many once a talented player and hopeful athlete had to give up sports due to injury. 

What Azraai Khor mention in his post is all true. 

Coach Azraii Moves To Perak

The Malaysian League 2012 season is dropping the curtain and we will witness another finals with some interesting features in in. When the season ends, teams starts preparing for the next season and from a Facebook page I found this. Coach Azraai Khor has moved to Perak. He has a very successful historical stint with his home state team Kedah when he led them to a double treble which is a feat very difficult to be achieved even from our most successful team Selangor.

With his coaching architectural and engineering success in football with Kedah land him as National Coach for Junior players. As history was created, whenever a successful coach at state who move up to National Football coach it means he is coming to an end of his career as a successful coach. Datuk Hj Ahmad Shafie, Cikgu Norizan Bakar, B. Sathianathan some names I remember, all created their downfall when they coach the national team. Azraai Khor experience the same. With the latest development from our senior football teams' performance and Datuk K. Rajagopal's statement that no other coach is as successful as he is, will he too fall like other coaches. FYI, Datuk K. Rajagopal's statment (whether from his mouth or not) has been commented at great length by facebookers. The latest are comments of his teams performance in Hong Kong receiving negattive comments even they beat HK 3-0. 

So, is the National Team a haunting ground for successful coaches?

  

Amarusso Suarez in his posting quoted:  "Setelah berjumpa dengan pengurusan Perak

semalam, saya tertarik dengan idea mereka untuk mengembangkan pasukan pelapis dan

 berdasarkan rekod saya, saya amat teruja untuk mengendalikan pemain Perak dengan

 idealogi baru ini." beliau berkata dengan teruja.

"Secara kebetulan Perak adalah juara Piala Presiden, kejuaraan bawah 21 tahun, dan Juara

 Piala Belia 2012, iaitu kejuaraan bawah 19 tahun, dan mereka juga merupakan finalis 

Sukma 2012. Mereka mempunyai pasukan pelapis muda yang amat berbakat."

"Saya telah cadangkan agar kami mengekalkan struktur seperti semasa di Kedah apabila

 kami mencungkil bakat pemain yang cemerlang seperti Khyril Muhymeen dan Sabre Mat 

Abu."

"Barisan muda mereka begitu kemas dan saya yakin akan potensi mereka."

"Saya ingin membina falsafah yang baru dan berusaha ke arah yang lebih cemerlang

 dengan Perak."~ azraai khor.







When Azraai coached Negeri Sembilan, he drive them to a Malaysia Cup champion in 2011

but he fail to create another winning streak as what he had done with his homestate, Kedah. 

With his move to Perak, anda a new team to him maybe he can create another history for 

himself.