It was all great that the Deputy Prime Minister who is also the Education Minister, Tan Sri Muyyiddin Yassin has been preaching that sports will be given greater emphasis and even has come up with the one student, one sport policy, sports being compulsory in schools. He has gone to say that there will be more funds sports and facilities for schools, training and retraining sports teachers, increase number periods for sports in schools, credit points for students who excel in sports for entry to universities and sports being a integral part of nation building.
But when soccer tournaments are held on carnival basis, played over two halves of 20 minutes, having the semifinals and final on the sameday and the whole zonal matches held over four days, one wonders how our soccer is going to improve.
Just look at the fixtures for soccer of the Keramat Zone in Kuala Lumpur below. Even the chart does not make any sense!
Yes, time constraint because of all the delays will be cited by the organisers, but it all looks like just organising the tournament for the sake of organising it and getting it out of the way!
KEJOHANAN BOLA SEPAK MSSWP ZON KERAMAT BAWAH 18
TARIKH : 5 HINGGA 12 APRIL 2010
TEMPAT : SM TEKNIK SETAPAK, KUALA LUMPUR
JADUAL PERLAWANAN
TARIKH | PERLAWANAN 1 | PERLAWANAN 2 |
10.00 - 10.50 PAGI | 3.00 -3.50 PETANG | |
6 APRIL 2010 | SMK SERI UTAMA | SMK TINGGI SETAPAK |
Keputusan | 3 - 0 | 0 - 2 |
8.00 - 8. 50 PAGI | - | |
8 APRIL 2010 | SMK WANGSA MAJU R1 | - |
Keputusan | 2 - 1 | Layak ke suku akhir .... |
9 APRIL 2010 – SUKU AKHIR (SMK SEKSYEN 5 LWN SMK SETIAWANGSA) 10.30 PAGI
12 APRIL 2010 – SEPARUH AKHIR (8.00 PAGI)
12 APRIL 2010 – AKHIR (3.00 PETANG)
KEJOHANAN BOLA SEPAK MSSWP ZON KERAMAT BAWAH 15
TARIKH : 12 HINGGA 16 APRIL 2010
TEMPAT : SMK SRI RAMPAI, KUALA LUMPUR
TARIKH | PERLAWANAN 1 | PERLAWANAN 2 |
10.00 - 10.50 PAGI | 12.00 -12.50 PETANG | |
12/4/2010 | SMK SERI RAMPAI | |
Keputusan | ||
8.00 - 8. 50 PAGI | ||
14/4/2010 | SMK SETAPAK INDAH | |
Keputusan |
15/4/2010 – SEPARUH AKHIR (PAGI)
- SEPARUH AKHIR (3.00)
16/4/2010 - AKHIR (8.30 PAGI)
5 comments:
So here we have found another reason why Malaysia's FIFA Ranking has taken a dive.....this is just MSSWP...we must investigate further on what is going on nationwide.
For the Game. For the World.
Mr Level Field,
It is not only in soccer. Athletics, hockey, etc, are also affected. Every sport is being wiped out at the grassroots. Worse still, the total removal of the Under-15 category.
The Minister of Edu had made a politically-correct statement but with no follow-through. The plans are not being carried out by the little Napoleons in his ministry.
To whom it may concern,
Don't try to comply with the soccer calender of the respective MSS calender. Let the zon or district organiser have enough time to plan the inter school competition . Let the competition be played over a period of 4 to 6 months period. At the player involved have more training time and competition time. Each team can play at 1 or 2 matches per week . There is enough time for recovery and also enough for any technical/tactical correction to be made. Even more the focus on football development is enhanced by allowing players to play for a longer period without any constraint.Think about it MSSM/KPM. If you nee teams for the inter state MSSM under 18 tournament , selection should be started right from form 4 or at 16 years old. Not at the last minute. Think about development , don't rush into competition just to please the parent body.
Good luck.
Dear Tony,
This is my 1st time writing to you. I had meant to comment on your earlier article on sports in schools but couldn’t find the time.
With the increase in the number of private sports academies and clubs especially in the major cities and towns over the past 5-10 years and the corresponding severe shortage of sports facilities for public use due to developments, I think a better decision that the Education Ministry can make instead of implementing the “one student one sport” policy is to channel or use the allocated funds to improve and upgrade the already existing but dilapidating facilities in schools and then rent them out to these private academies to use for a regular fee.
Most of these private academies are quite well run and their founders are mostly people who are very passionate about their sports and have a strong desire to groom and nurture kids in sports. However, some of them have to share their training ground or facilities with the public and I think they would welcome the idea of using school facilities by paying a fee. It’s a win-win situation: the school earns some income rather than allow the facility to be left unused, and the private academy gets to train its trainees in a proper manner.
The Education Ministry has failed to realize that over the past 5-10 years, these private academies have replaced schools as the children’s sports centre of choice. Kids who love, say, football will prefer to register themselves in a football academy and train 4 hours on weekends than to wait for his Pendidikan Jasmani period of 40 minutes to come up once a week only to be told that the PJ teacher is not free so everyone has to stay in class and do their own revisions. Some PJ teachers do not have the knowledge to coach football or other sports. So, a kid (and his overenthusiastic father!) who wants to go far in football will not wait for the school to provide this opportunity. This evolution meant that kids who are interested in sports will seek private academies while those who are not inclined towards sports will not. Nowadays, parents who feel that their children need the exercise will look toward private academies, and not schools, to help make their children fitter and healthier. Because of this I think it’s a bit too late for schools to reverse this trend of schools being 2nd choice for children who are interested in sports.
The good thing also is that looking at the costs involved, I think the Education Ministry can even have some savings from their original policy mentioned above as improving/upgrading school facilities will not “eat up” all of the allocated funds.
Michael,
Thanks for posting your comment.
I cannot agree more on your comments and are spot on.
The problem is, whether those in authority are going to pay any heed to these comments or those of the teachers, students and sports lovers!
This is just another exercise to show that something is being done, but in the end, nothing happens or if it does it will be a shoddy effort!
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