PETALING JAYA: There is almost nowhere to go but up. Malaysia is ranked 161st in the FIFA list of 209 nations, we last qualified for the Olympic football tournament in 1980 and at the Asian Games level, last won a bronze medal at the Teheran Games in 1974.
Even at the South-East Asian level, the last success was at the SEA Games in 2011 and the Asean Football Federation Cup a year earlier.
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