hi. im new here.. anyway i really wanted to noe why singaporeans
dislike the foreign athletes so much..
cos i hate it when ppl talk about our national soccer team and how
it consist of so many foreigners. pls, don't call them foreigners.
they are Singaporeans, just like u and me. just because they are of
a different race, a different skin colour, or that their names
don't consist of Tan or Mohd doesn't mean they are not Singaporean
enough. Let's face it. Singapore is a cosmopolitan city. why isit
that we can be happy with the foreign construction workers
contributing to our economy but not foreign singaporeans increasing
the standards of singapore soccer. i looked thru the papers
recently and i found several comments on how we can be proud of our
soccer team when it consists of so many foreigners.
1 thing i noticed, everytime our soccer team get thru to the semis
or finals of some competition, these ppl will come out to criticise
that our soccer team consist of so many foreigners and therefore
not Singaporean enough. Whenever the team flops, these ppl will
again criticise the team for having so many foreigners and yet not
make the cut. What is this debate about whether we can be proud of
our soccer team or not? Would u seriously be proud of a team that
wins nothing? If not for these foreigners, would you see a 55,000
capacity crowd in the national stadium? Would we even be in the
finals of the ASEAN cup? It can be said that some of these
foreigners are lured here by the prospects of a better future and
more importantly cash incentives. But we must admit that these
foreigners have in a positive way contributed to the soccer
standards of Singapore.. it would also benefit our "pure-bred"
players to be training with these foreigners. So why not lets take
it that we are buying their talents to help improve the standards
of soccer in Singapore and also to help us win something.
However, Singapore really cannot rely heavily on these FTs in the
long run. Who knows when they might just take our money and
disappear. afterall, Singapore is not their motherland. when there
are better opportunities elsewhere, they might just leave us for
them. So we really have to breed our own, home-grown talents. These
foreigners would help by letting young talented Singaporeans play
at a higher standard. This would also help in the development of
sports in Singapore. The sports school is a big step forward into
creating a better enviroment for talented young Singaporeans, but
dun expect the effects to be seen immediately. So till then we'll
just have to wait and continue supporting team singapore and not be
so myopic and complain about how some of our athletes are not born
here.
