Fiasco World Cup Dream

4-days after I wrote about why God cried when a Malaysian ask god when will Malaysia win a world cup, Sports Minister Datuk Azalina Othman said in Parliament yesterday that the Government agreed that it is going ahead with a plan to build a sports training centre in London which will cost the government RM490 million.

The sports training center will be a place where Malaysian athletes are put through the grind and where they get to hone their skills playing against world-class teams. They will also learn at the feet of top coaches. The plan is to turn them into truly professional athletes.

Azalina Othman said in Parliament yesterday that it had identified the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre in Brickendonbury, England, as the site for the future high performance sports training centre.

She said apart from helping Malaysian athletes acclimatise to the weather, it would enable sports officials to have access to the expertise and technology of countries more advanced in sports.

"It is easier to get top coaches from Europe to train our athletes in London than to get them to come to Malaysia." She said the teams would get to play against top professional teams and reserve teams of top clubs in London. "It will help build more resilient athletes who may be able to compete in a world setting in a better way." Meanwhile, the Football Association of Malaysia is undertaking several long-term programmes to put the Malaysian team on the world map.

NST reported that World Cup 2006 rekindled the hopes of many Malaysians that one day the country will make it to the world cup finals, maybe, even as champion.

Will Malaysia ever play in football World Cup Finals and possibly, even win the cup?

Ya, Boleh, boleh; but I don't know why God cried!!!

I think Malaysian footballers should continue to spar with MyTeam from Khairy.

Turn them into professionals? What is she talking about? They are already professionals in their own mould.

Having a sport center in London will make Malaysian athletes and footballers world class player? If it is so, then, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar would have done that. England had tried hard to win the world cup since 1966 and had failed. Brazil and Argentina had failed to enter the semi-finals. Korea and Japan were knock out from the last 32.

Malaysia is thinking to built a sport center so that the players can be in the world cup finals? I'm not sure whether they can even get into the qualifying rounds. I love to see them do it but I wonder why god cried?????