FACT- Singapore cannot win SEA games which is u23 competition,
with only real Singaporeans...
This is as our national team stalwarts are FTs, shi jiayi,
precious, bennett and now duric... granted, we do have good local
players also, my point though is that from the sea games
competitions, you can obviously see that in terms of natural
ability, the thai players are better (foreign talents aside)
FACT- We cheer about getting to the third stage, but there is
another stage after this, and we only defeated Tajikistan and
Palestine to come here. I do think its a good feat for Singapore to
get to the third stage... and I have always been following
Singapore even through its low points... but I just feel that we
should take things one at a time rather than jump ahead and count
chickens before they hatch...
Look at Thailand. They have had a better team and better local
talent in the past and even now they are good. Back then when the
gulf between sg and thailand was large thailand even got to the
Final stage of WC qualifying a few times. But got utterly owned by
china, iran, and so on... So I think we should just focus on
getting past this stage first (which I feel there is a slight
chance), the next one will be uber tough.
Speaking of which though, if Sg really got into the WC finals, I
think there will be mass exodus to buy tickets there.. our first
chance and might be last... and some ppl mite wish for us to play
brazil and so on to see good football.. though by then ill be in
NS...