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Malaysia bids farewell to Ballon d’Or, merci for the 11-year ride
IT WAS in September 2010 that I received an e-mail from Thierry Marchand, the head of international football at authoritative weekly magazine France Football, inviting me to be a member of a newly-assembled international jury for football’s most prestigious award, Ballon d’Or, which means the Golden Ball in French.
Reaching Under-17 Asian Cup a miniature victory in road to 2030
CONGRATULATIONS are in order for the national football Under-16 side for having earned a ticket to the AFC Asian Cup Under-17 tournament next year after a successful qualifying campaign in Indonesia.
The day a future King of Malaysia came to our rescue
THE tragic stampede in Malang, Indonesia, brought back mixed memories for me personally to the day when a small group of sports journalists survived a harrowing incident in Hong Kong.
Handle unpolished gems with care so that they’ll be our future diamonds
KARL Gunter Lange, a track and field specialist from Germany, issued a warning to the Malaysian powers-that-be almost 30 years ago on the dangers of early burnout for budding athletes in athletics.
The more you give, the more you get – a motto Arul can stick to
CHIEF coach A. Arulselvaraj in on the brink of joining a select few individuals who had brought the nation to the men’s hockey World Cup.
Profits from Pan-gon’s presence must include transition plan
THE choice of Kim Pan-gon to be the national football team supremo has been seen as a masterstroke by FA of Malaysia (FAM) president Datuk Hamidin Mohd Amin.
Remembering Jalil
50 years on, coach still the only one to have led football team to Olympics.
