Club players not good enough, BAM?


KUALA LUMPUR: Badminton clubs are still not recognised as a reliable feeder of talents for the national body.

At least, this is the understanding of Looi Badminton Academy’s managing director Datuk Jack Koh, following the Badminton Association of Malaysia’s (BAM) failure to invite his club’s budding players for a recent selection trial to pick the best juniors to represent the country in the World Junior Championships in Alor Setar from April 7-18.

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