Let’s honour our 1972 football heroes too


The famous Malaysia national football team posing with the team mascot, Tuah the Tiger cub, before departing for the 1972 Olympic games in Munich, Germany.

I WISH to congratulate Astro for their patriotic and inspirational 1980 Harimau Malaya documentary featured on Malaysia Day this year. It was a monumental effort to piece together the real story of our 1980 football heroes who made every Malaysian proud of their achievement.

The 1980 Olympic qualifying goal by the Sabah duo of Hassan Sani and James Wong as well as the phrase “cucuk Hassan” used by the well-known local commentator Zulkarnain Hassan keeps ringing in our minds when we recollect that glorious night our national football team qualified for the Moscow Olympics after beating South Korea at Merdeka Stadium.

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