2008 Beijing Olympics

It all starts today! The best atheletes of the world gather at China this year to compete for glory,pride and the spirit of humanity! I for one love to watch the games because, when do you ever get a chance to watch the best in one venue. China have come a long way to prepare for this games in getting their act together socially,environmentally and many many other factors.

Im looking forward to watch the opening ceremony. Normally when the games are in Asia, the opening and cloings are prety awesome because the Asian countries are rich in culture which they showcase in this very event at its best.

Now for the games it self..I will be watching athletics,football,swimming,badminton and a little of everything else Its 08-08-08 and at 8.08pm the games will begin! Yey!

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Funny & Painful Football

Its a Friday!! Time to sit back and take it easy through the last working day before everyone’s favourite corner of the week!

First part is pretty awesome..after that.ooouucchh :S

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Nike Football Ad’s

NIke have the reputation of coming up with some superb football advertisement’s that truly sets the trend and creates massive waves all over. My favourite series of Nike Ad’s were the Joga Bonito series! It was a awesome series of advertisements that you want to keep watching again and again.

The brilliant people at Nike  have done it again! Nothing like first hand view, Check it out ->

As Usual, Thanks Alan

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Robbie Keane Press Conference

Liverpool FC’s latest signing in ex Spurs Robbie Keane.

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Freak Football Incident

Something Alan sent me a few days ago. Apparently the guy got a seizure and died shortly after that. How do you explain something like that?

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Red Robbie

Liverpool have completed the signing of Spur’s Robbie Keane for 20Mil Pounds. He will be replacing Peter Crouch who moved to Pompey a few weeks ago. Personally i think this is a great signing, he has been a good player for Spurs and pretty explosive. The prospects of having Keane line up together with Torres is pretty juicy. I think that no Voronin, Arbeloa and Alonso may be sold to raise funds for the purchase of Gareth Barry.

Keane is the fifth summer addition to Rafa Benitez’s first-team squad after the arrival of David Ngog, Diego Cavalieri, Philipp Degen and Andrea Dossena.

Personally i selling Voronin is ok but i think Alonso and Pennant are pretty awesome players which i rather see wearing a red shirt than anything else. The new season is about 3 weeks time and i cant wait!!

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Soccer Heroes - R.Arumugam

Spiderman

Famously known as Spiderman, R Arumugan is easily a household name when it comes to Malaysian football. He was born on January 31, 1953 in Port Klang he was one of those players who were born to play the game. He made his debut into football at the age of 18 representing Selangor.

Representing Selangor from 1972 to 1988, he helped the time to go on and win the Malaysia Cup eight times.

Representing Malaysia 196 times

The goalkeeper earned his first cap when he represented the Malaysia national football team in 1973 for the World Cup qualifying round matches in Seoul, South Korea. He is also a bronze medalist for the Asian games in Tehran in 1974. Arumugam was also part of the Malaysian team that qualified for the 1980 Moscow Olympics however the team boycotted that golden opportunity.

He was known to be part of the spine of the team together with Mokthar Dahari and Soh Chin Aun, He agility was second to none and his commanding presence at the goal was a constant fear to team mates and opponents. From his performances it clearly showed like his team mates the pride in wearing the national colours and playing every match like it were a cup finals.

"Spidy"

Arumugam passed away on the 18th of December  1988 in a car accident on the federal highway at the age of 35. This news shocked the entire football fraternity and fans. Till today most goalkeepers in this region set Spiderman as a benchmark that they would like to emulate.

It was that era when players were chosen on merit of their performances. All of them who wore the national colours went out to make the nation proud. If only the current crop had 50% of that!!

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Soccer Heroes - Soh Chin Aun

Soh Chin Aun is another member of the legendary Malaysian team that made every opponent that toke on the Malaysian team back in the 70’s worried. The Malacca born defender was a regular in the national setup which incluced the likes of Mokhtar Dahari,R Arumugam, defenders Santokh Singh, midfielders Reduan Abadullah ,Shukor Salleh and Isa Bakar.

Winning on of his many Malaysia Cup tittle's

Tauke was born at Alor Gajah, Malacca on the 28th of July 1950. He is married to Datin Patricia Lee Chwee Siang and has 2 children Bee Hin and Chuan Tye. Something you didn’t know about tauke is the actual spelling of his name is Soh Chin Ann. He started his carrier representing Selangor from 1970-1980 and subsequently went on to represent his home state of Malacca from 1981till1983. He wore the national colours throughout his carrier from 1970 till 1983 earning him 200 caps.

Tauke was part of all the glory years when Malaysia used to come on field with pride and honour and win games for the nation at any cost. He was also known as ‘god of war’ because of his commanding presence in the centre of defence and that also earned him the captain’s armband for the qualifying team to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.

2008 China Olympics torch run

These days tauke is the the chairman of the referees’ committee on 13 March 2007 and is actively involved with the Football Association of Malaysia(FAM). He was featured as one of the many 2008 China Olympics torch bearers run for Malaysia. I personally feel that tauke should simply teach all national players what the legendary team believed in, what made them so special. Malaysian national players should try to emulate Soh Chin Aun and his colleagues not the John Terry’s and Christiano Ronaldo’s.

Hopefully one day i get a chance to meet him and shake his hand because that is what a true national sports man is all about!

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Soccer Heroes - Mokhtar Dahari

The current Malaysian football scene is nothing short of rubbish, were sitting something like 160th position in the FIFA world ranking(there are about 190 seeded countries) . The nation would claim that football is our no 1 sport despite the lousy condition of the national team. This is probably because its our most watched sport(English Premier League’s,EURO,World Cups etc) . Take a walk at the streets, you’ll see more Everton shirts than a Malaysian national team shirt(don’t get me started on the Man U’s and Liverpool’s) .What do we watch since we have a team that suffer to beat countries like India which playing the marbles is above football in their favorite sports list.

It never has been always this bad, at one point Malaysia was considered to be a Asian powerhouse. At that time there weren’t any professional players. The players all had full time jobs and played football simply because they loved it and every time they put on the national shirt, it was a matter of pride!!

One of the stars of yesterday was Mokthar Dahari .He made his national debut at the age of 19 and represented Selangor for most of his career where he went on to win the Malaysia cup 10 times.

SuperMokth as he was famously known was part of a powerful Malaysian team which was also represented by goalkeeper R Arumugam, defenders Santokh Singh and Soh Chin Aun, midfielders Reduan Abadullah and Shukor Salleh and Mokhtar’s partner upfront Isa Bakar.

During the 70’s Malaysia team beat Arsenal & England team where he scored a spectacular goal,dribbling it from the middle to score at the other end.

He was blessed with such skills but at the age of 37,Supermokth passed away of muscular dystrophy on 11 July 1991. Tt here have been all sorts of rumors about how he passed on but fact was that he was sick.

Since then Malaysia have never had a team which came close to the passion, drive and hunger to emulate the success of the 70’s national team. We have a bunch of spoil professionals with access to such high tech training methods and programs to ensure they are on top of their game but for some reason, they prefer the nasi lemak and night life.

I hope someday, something happens and our local football take a drastic change for the sake of the nation..I hope i get the opportunity someday to shake the hands of these stars who made us proud!

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Pako To United??

I read the most shocking news today at tribalfootball .  Apprently ex liverpool assistant manager is in line to become Sir Alex’s new second man!! WTF?! Cant be good for Rafa! Nobody knows Rafa like Paco does and this could spell trouble,  i dont think the Liverpool fans be too happy with this piece of news…..if it happens!

United current asst manager Quiroz has being strongly linked to take over the Portugal hotseat left by new Chelsea boss Scolari

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