Ola Bola should have stuck to facts, say James Wong and Hassan Sani


Members of the football squad which qualified for Moscow Olympics (from left) Hassan Sani, Datuk Soh Chin Aun, James Wong and Santokh Singh. File picture from May 2010.

KOTA KINABALU: Two key players who helped Malaysia qualify for the 1980 Olympic Games say that the movie Ola Bola should have stuck to facts to avoid confusion.

James Wong and Hassan Sani, both members of the squad, praised the movie but said the inaccuracies could cause people to get confused.

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