if your national sports policy is to buy success, then little
can be done.
the policy makers needs to fundamentally change its sports
management policy to breed local success.
the sports school is the right direction but if they find their
doors shut becos of these foreigners coming in, then it will remain
a problem.
take soccer for e.g., i am not sure how the local
players feel when these FSTs are paid and better taken care of than
our very own.
recipe for disaster in the long term.
and for ping pong, singapore will continue to hire foreigners to
fill in the gaps when the likes of lichiawei return to beijing for
good after she made enuf money or she is no longer of good use to
singapore.
Yah especially in soccer. I really don't understand why they
wanna give citizenship to old fogeys like Duric and Wilkinson. How
much longer can these LKKs play? How much more use are they of to
the national team? Soon, I believe they'll be like Goncalves,
who has sinced F-ed off and Gabrovac, F-ing off soon.
Then there's that bum Precious Emuerajeye (or something like
that, dunno how to spell). Other than being physically big in size,
he's slow and clumsy and looks like he'll potentially lose the ball
every time he runs with it. Personally, I think Baihakki
is technically 10 times the player this clumsy fool can ever
hope to be if he can cut out his schoolboy errors that he
commits there and then.
Shi Jiayi? Not much for me to complain but seriously nothing
great about him either. Surely with some time, effort, and money
put into our academy, we can groom someone of his calibre right?
Might as well spend this money on a player who is Singaporean.
And, don't even get me started on Itimi Dickson and Agu
Casmir...
Only Mustafic and Bennett seem to add value to the
Singaporean team. But honestly, between putting Bennett or Alam
Shah back in the team when he returns, I'd choose Alam Shah. Coz
after all, it is goals that win matches...