KUALA LUMPUR: The national team left last night for the Junior World Cup Finals in Rotterdam carrying with them Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's hopes of seeing the country bask again in hockey glory.
But it will be an uphill task for Malaysia, whose best results in the series were two fourth-place finishes – in Paris in 1979 and in Kuala Lumpur in 1982.
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