SPORTS SOLUTION
SPORTS SOLUTION: SINGING THE SAME OLD SONG
To solve the problems of poor results and low standards of our sportsmen and sportswomen, Sports Minister Datuk Azalina Othman Said's decision was to get foreign help in preparing the sports development blueprint for the country. Azalina has engaged the services of Western Australia International Sports director Hallam Pereira, who has also been appointed her personal adviser, to draw the blueprint.
Guess what was the recommendations from Hallam Pereira and the reactions from the sports officials???
Malaysian AAU (MAAU) deputy president Datuk First Admiral Danyal Balagopal did not mince his words when he said:
"There is nothing new in what has been said by Pereira.”
"The same things have been highlighted by Malaysians, at least as far as athletics is concerned, but unfortunately, nobody listens to us," said Balagopal. "We may offer the same ideas and solutions but nothing happens until a foreigner says it,” said Balagopal.
"Pereira has done what he has been paid to do: "TO TELL THE TRUTH".
But many Malaysians have also spoken about what he had said.
"But do we acknowledge and pay them the same amount of money for their services? At our development symposium in June, the local coaches, officials and former athletes spoke about the same issues that were highlighted by Pereira. We even submitted a copy of the resolutions and findings to the Sports Ministry." But it looks like Pereira's assessment carries more weight, quipped Balagopal.
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT'S NEW THAT WE HAD NOT ALREADY KNOWN?
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WERE NOT ALREADY SAID BEFORE & THAT THE SPORT'S MINISTRY DID NOT KNOW?
IS IT THAT WE MUST HEAR FROM FOREIGNERS THAN WE WILL ACT?
IS THERE NO BETTER WAY, WHENEVER WE HAD FAILED, THAT EVERY SOLUTIONS THE MINSTRY TAKES IS TO ENGAGE FOREIGN CONSULTANTS (& pay a hefty sum) TO RECONFIRM WHAT OUR LOCALS HAD RECOMMENDED TO THE MINISTRY?
WILL WE HAVE A SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEMS?
THE WAY WE MOVE FORWARD IS ALWAYS A STEP BACKWARD TO THE DARKER SIDE?
THE only thing new in the whole episode of moving Malaysian sports forward is that the findings have come from a NEW person — a FOREIGNER. Otherwise it is an OLD STORY. That was the verdict from most of the Malaysian sport officials interviewed, following Sports Minister Datuk Azalina Othman Said's decision to get foreign help in preparing the sports development blueprint for the country.
"Malaysia sport doesn’t need foreign expertise to care its ailments," says KL chief athletics coach S. Arurandy. Bringing in Western Australia International Sports Director, Hallam Pareira WILL NOT CHANGE anything, but what the Sport Ministry needs to do is to give the current PROCESS a REVAMP.
“You can engage anyone from any part of the world but AS LONG AS THE SAME office bearers are sitting on top for 20 to 30 years in the National Sports Council (NSC) for associations, local sports is not going to go anywhere," lamented Arurandy.
“You need true sports people to hold those posts so that they will have the passion to develop the sports. We must not vote for anyone just to fill up empty seats,” says Arurandy who spent 33-years coaching.
“See what Datuk DR PS Nathan is doing to bowling and Major S. Maniam for squash. These are the kind of people we need to take sports to greater heights. We have the right candidates to rectify the situation, and need not look overseas. Whether we need a foreigner or not is not the question. A change at the lower levels is what we need.”
“The current situation is one of ‘I scratch your back and you stratch mine’. That’s why you have the same people sitting up there for so long with no change,” he said.
Arurandy also feels that coaches must be given a free hand when it comes to selecting athletes and the racial composition to fulfill quotas should be scrapped.
EVEN IN SPORTS, WE HAVE RACIAL COMPOSITIONS TO FULFILL QUOTAS ......absurdities ...
Even the world's most racial country, America, the United States, do not have quotas for sports; and in Malaysia, the sports associations are to select athletes based on racial composition??????? God help Azalina and the sports in Malaysia. There will not be a solution to the problem, unless the Government and the Sports Ministry knows what they want.
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