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KOLEKSI GAMBAR Lama Pasukan Kebangsaan/Negeri/Kelab
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Tony says sorry on TV
The fans had waited almost 15 years for an apology from the former Premier League star, and this week, ex-West Ham and Selangor striker Tony Cottee finally laid to rest the controversy that had been brewing since he became the Malaysian League’s biggest ever signing in 1996.
In his recent interview on Astro SuperSport’s Bola@mamak, Cottee addressed many of the controversial remarks that followed him during his football career in Malaysia.
" The last thing I am is a prima-donna but I was just used to a higher standard. When you go to another country and when you question the other guys, that is perhaps why I was pictured the wrong way. Did I enjoy the football? No. Did I enjoy being in Malaysia ? Yes, ” he remembers. “ Different culture…. I had a great time. My twin boys were conceived here. So I will always have great affection for Malaysia ”, said Cottee.
Cottee stunned the sporting world when he went from the Premier League to Selangor in October 1996. Aged 31 at the time, he had scored 182 top-flight league goals over 14 seasons with the Hammers and Everton.
When he returned from Asia in the summer of 1997, Cottee was signed by Martin O’Neill at Leicester City, linking up with Emile Heskey. He got his first taste of the European stage in the UEFA Cup and finally won a major English trophy when Leicester lifted the 2000 League Cup. Eighty-five league games for the Foxes yielded 27 goals, including the winner against Manchester United at Old Trafford in 1998.
Sources : http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150406344331111
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150840163715245
http://rizalhashim.blogspot.com/ ... ys-sorry-on-tv.html
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Selangor Hammer
Posted on 3 March 2011 - 07:59pm
" TOO MANY MUSHROOMS and not enough magic " is how one wit described Tony Cottee’s 10 months in Malaysia in the mid-1990s.
If a touch unkind, it refers to the manner of his leaving as well as a less-than-stellar spell with Selangor, memories of which were stirred when he popped up on our screens as a World Cup pundit last year.
Cottee scored 14 goals in 23 games in Malaysia – not a bad return but perhaps not quite what was expected of a striker who bagged over 300 in a 20-year career in English football.
One of his strikes helped win the Malaysia Cup but even that can’t compete with his mushrooms jibe.
" The grass on some pitches, " he told a British newspaper, " was so long I saw mushrooms growing. " It was not the only bridge he burned.
There were other quips about having to clean his own boots and rooming with a teammate whose early morning wake-up calls disturbed his slumber.
Some players might have taken the " out of context " option when tackled on it but not Cottee.
" I really saw them, " he subsequently said of the fungi fields he was expected to play on. " It was no joke. "
If this didn’t go down too well with the groundsmen of the time, Cottee at least told it as he saw it and in doing so showed the makings of a no-nonsense pundit.
There is no ducking and diving or shooting the messenger for him – he stands by his comments a decade and a half later.
In an e-mail interview he told me : " I have happy memories of my time living in Malaysia but I didn’t enjoy the football. I did play in the Malaysia Cup final and my scoring record was good. I was just frustrated with the lack of professionalism I came across in my time out there.
" To be fair, English football had been going for 120 years and in Malaysia just 15, so I should have known what was coming but that didn’t mean I didn’t struggle to come to terms with it. It has given me some good material for my after dinner speech though… "
Asked how he got into punditry, he is typically forthright. " It was after my last season playing and a failed attempt at management (with then fourth division Barnet).
" I made a call to a friend at Sky and they gave me a chance on the Soccer Saturday show. I’ve always enjoyed working with the media, so it was a natural thing to do after that last season ! "
That last season (2000-01) saw him play in all four divisions, a precipitous descent by any standards but the rapidity is partly explained by his dabble in management.
He was also given a player-coaching role at Norwich after being released by Leicester City on a freebie in gratitude for three sensational years.
When he quit Malaysia, he was a forgotten man. He’d gone off the radar and admits: " I wasn’t wanted when I left so I thought I would return to one of my local clubs, Southend or Orient maybe, to play out my career. So, to join Leicester and work with Martin O’Neill was fantastic. I had three wonderful years there and winning the League Cup was the highlight of my career (the only trophy I won). "
His gratitude to O’Neill is not surprising. He is such a fan of the Ulsterman that he wishes he’d got the England job instead of Steve McClaren and the West Ham job when he was strongly linked with it in January.
" He’s that good, " insists Cottee. But while the Brian Clough disciple deserves immense credit for helping reverse a career heading nowhere fast, Cottee is far too modest to mention his own contribution.
Thirty-four goals in 100 games for the Foxes was proof he’d not lost his cunning in the penalty area. If that isn’t a bad return for a mid-30s striker, it was a reminder of his prolific heyday when Everton broke the British transfer record for him in 1988.
The fee of £2 million (RM10m) was paid back with interest – 99 goals in 244 games – including two against Liverpool in that epic 4-4 draw after which Kenny Dalglish first called it a day.
But it was at his beloved West Ham where Cottee made his name, scoring on his debut as a 17-year-old against Spurs and forging a lethal partnership with Frank McAvennie.
He had two spells with the Hammers, returning from Goodison before being sold to Selangor for £700,000 (RM3.5m).
He also won seven England caps. As evidence of his longevity, he played for more clubs after he left Malaysia than before he came.
He certainly liked the country and when he came out to do the World Cup on Astro, he brought his 70-year-old dad out with him to meet old friends and let him see for himself what Malaysia is like.
Now an occasional contributor from London where he’s a regular for Sky, he’s much valued for his knowledge and insightful analysis of the game.
It’s a role he enjoys along with after dinner speaking but the latter didn’t come naturally.
" It does now but I’ve been doing it for eight years. Trust me, at the start, I was rubbish. "
Telling it straight is Cottee’s modus operandi and he’s not afraid to own up to a gaffe.
" I pride myself on not making too many mistakes on TV but we all do it. Last season, I called a goal scored for Gillingham by a Leeds player… and it wasn’t an own goal!
" Also, about five years ago, I turned up at the Sky Studios in West London to be a pundit when I should have been at the City Ground in Nottingham to cover the match. I never made it to the game ! "
Fourteen years after leaving these shores, it’s fair to say Tony Cottee, raconteur, pundit and after-dinner speaker, has not let that grass grow under his feet.
- The Sund Daily -
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Malaysia Olympic Squad (1972)
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Buku Cerita Malaysia Tidak Ke Piala Dunia : Satu ulasan
Malaysia tidak ke Piala Dunia itu semua orang tahu.
Tapi apa cerita sebenar yang berlaku dari 1970 hingga 2014, Malaysia secara konsisten gagal layak ke Piala Dunia ? Hanya Lucius Maximus ada butirannya didalam buku kedua beliau yang bertajuk CERITA MALAYSIA TIDAK KE PIALA DUNIA.
Aku membeli senaskah dimalam pelancarannya di Rasta TTDI kira-kira 3 minggu lalu.
Buku yang dimulakan dengan prakata cukup padu dari Pipiyapong tentang angan-angan Malaysia ke Piala Dunia. Galataraub FC, Barcelumut dan Torpedo Lipis ? Aku kuat merasakan prakata ini juga adalah sedikit cebisan naskah power Pipiyapong tentang Baharum Bahari seperti yang selalu kita baca di blog beliau ( http://baharombahari.blogspot.com/ ). Atau mungkin tidak.
Gaya penulisan Lucius seperti lazimnya kita tahu memang seperti Supermokh diatas padang. Padu dan mampu mengejutkan seperti padunya tendangan sambil berlari Arwah Supermokh juga. Itupun jika anda semua pernah berkesempatan menyaksikan kehebatan Supermokh dan rakan-rakan.
Tetapi jika tidak pernah pun atau hanya menyokong Malaysia di zaman Ultra, Lucius masih mampu membawa anda pembaca muda kembali kezaman kegemilangan bolasepak kita dizaman 70an dan 80an. Aku secara peribadi seperti dibawa kembali ke zaman kanak-kanak aku, menggilai bolasepak Malaysia dengan beberapa nama lama yang secara tidak sedar memberi aku sedikit orgasm.
CMTKPD dimulakan dengan kelayakan 1974. Butiran perlawanan dan rentetan peristiwa yang berlaku ditulis semula oleh Lucius dengan cukup baik. Aku kagum diatas usaha dan kerajinan beliau mendapatkan semula fakta sejarah serta nama pemain, jurulatih dan mereka yang terlibat. Entah arkib mana beliau selongkar, aku tidak bertanya pula. Yang pasti bukan muzium FAM.
CMTKPD juga menyentuh tentang gaya kepimpinan dan campur tangan FAM dalam menentukan corak kegagalan Malaysia ke Piala Dunia. Beberapa nama korban FAM seperti Ken Worden, Frank Lord dan B.Sathianathan juga ada diceritakan. Juga berapa nama pengurus bolasepak serta ragam mereka dalam melukakan hati penyokong setia Malaysia juga tidak terlepas dari tulisan Lucius. Ada banyak info serta fakta menarik yang entah mana dikorek oleh beliau untuk pengetahuan semua.
Kesimpulanya, bolasepak Malaysia dibawah FAM memang unik justeru kegagalan Malaysia untuk layak ke Piala Dunia juga hasil dari paten yang sama. Lucius tidak memberi penyelesaian keatas kemelut bolasepak Malaysia dan bukan itupun tujuan buku ini, tetapi pihak berwajib harus membaca dan jadikan iktibar. Hati rakyat Malaysia telah lama dilukai dan terus dilukai, apakah tidak ada satu manusia pun yang mahu menjadikan angan-angan Pipiyapong menjadi kenyataan ?
Jika anda peminat bolasepak sebenar, samada tempatan atau antarabangsa, anda wajib membeli buku ini. Samada Lucius penulis pujaan anda atau tidak, itu no 20. Jangan terlepas peluang atau menunggu lama-lama lagi, itu perangai The Kops dan The Gunners. Apa dapat ?
Anda Ultra Malaya yang hebat tetapi dengan buku CMTKPD, anda adalah Ultra Malaya sebenar !
CMTKPD diterbitkan oleh penerbit indie terkemuka Malaysia, Dubook Press dan boleh diorder disini.
http://dubook.blogspot.com/p/beli-buku-dubook.html
Bila Malaysia nak ke Piala Dunia itu hanya Sultan Bola yang tahu.
Sources : http://sokernet.blogspot.com/
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It was in this very year of 1993 that our ranking stands at no. 75.
Currently vietname is at no.99.
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Sukarnya nak kekang Maradona
17/12/2011
Oleh TAN MING WAI
[email protected]
Reduan Abdullah
'' TIADA apa yang boleh dilakukan untuk mengekang kehebatan Diego Maradona, dia terlalu lincah, tangkas dan pantas, " demikian ujar bekas pemain tengah Selangor dan kebangsaan, Reduan Abdullah, 58, yang pernah berentap dengan Maradona yang disifatkan sebagai jagoan terbaik sepanjang zaman.
Penulis yakin tidak ramai khususnya golongan muda, yang ingat mahu pun tahu menahu akan kunjungan pra-musim Maradona bersama pasukannya, Boca Juniors ke ibu negara untuk bertemu Jemputan Selangor XI pada 1982, hampir tiga dekad lalu.
Kuala Lumpur menjadi destinasi ketiga dalam siri jelajah dunia yang turut merangkumi Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kobe, Mexico dan Guatemala.
Dilangsungkan pada 12 Januari, Boca Juniors bertandang ke Stadium Merdeka dengan status digeruni iaitu juara Metropolitano, liga Argentina 1981.
" Saya dan rakan-rakan dilanda perasaan bercampur apabila dimaklumkan bahawa kami akan bertemu Boca Juniors dalam satu perlawanan persahabatan.
" Kami berasa girang, tetapi pada masa sama juga bimbang kerana takut dibelasah dengan jumlah jaringan besar, maklumlah Argentina ialah pemenang Piala Dunia 1978.
" Kami semua tidak sabar menanti-nantikan perlawanan tersebut, kami ingin lihat sejauh mana kehebatan corak permainan Amerika Selatan, " kata Reduan yang menyarung jersi No.6 untuk Gergasi Merah Kuning di antara tahun 1972-1986.
Bagi menghadapi ujian getir itu, Jemputan Selangor diperkuatkan dengan kehadiran dua penyerang handalan negara jiran, Fandi Ahmad (Singapura) dan Piyapong Pue-on (Thailand) serta bekas tonggak pertahanan, Soh Chin Aun dari Melaka.
" Fandi dan Piyapong digandingkan bersama arwah Mokhtar (Dahari) dalam rangkaian tiga penyerang untuk menggempur kubu Boca, sementara ' Tauke ' pula dijemput kembali berpasangan dengan Santokh Singh di pertahanan tengah mengemudi benteng pertahanan bersama mendiang R.Arumugam, " imbas Reduan.
Apabila hari penentuan tiba, Reduan bertekad untuk memberikan persembahan terbaik ketika berdepan Maradona dan Boca.
" Matlamat kami ialah memastikan Boca tidak menang besar dan pada masa sama kami mahu tunjukkan bahawa pemain Malaysia dan rantau Asia Tenggara juga tidak kurang hebatnya.
Tinggal kenangan... Reduan Abdullah (duduk, kanan sekali) bergambar bersama skuad bola sepak Selangor, turut kelihatan Allahyarham Mokhtar Dahari (tiga dari kanan). - utusan/Zulkarnain Mohd Saidin
"Sebaik turun ke padang, rasa gemuruh hilang digantikan dengan keyakinan," jelas Reduan.
Meskipun dikejutkan dengan jaringan Fandi seawal minit keempat, Boca kembali menguasai permainan sebelum Carlos Cordoba menyamakan kedudukan pada minit ke-19.
" Hampir kesemua pemain Boca mempunyai susuk tubuh agak tegap, kecuali Maradona, itu pun Maradona sungguh stabil ketika memegang bola, kami langsung tidak berpeluang merampas bola dari kakinya.
" Saya ada cuba menerjah, namun gagal menjatuhkannya. Tidak seperti corak permainan Eropah yang menerapkan hantaran jauh, Boca mempamerkan hantaran pendek dan penguasaan bola.
" Apabila kami cuba menyerang, barisan pertahanan Boca bertahan secara ' compact ' dan mendalam, adalah sukar kami melakukan sebarang gerakan bahaya, " katanya.
Memasuki minit ke-60, Boca akhirnya memecah kebuntuan apabila Maradona melepasi perangkap ofsaid sebelum dengan lincahnya memperdaya Arumugam dan mudah menolak masuk untuk gol kemenangan Boca.
" Saya merasakan diri amat bertuah dilahirkan dalam era tersebut. Saya pernah beraksi menentang Coventry, Tottenham dan England B, namun aksi 90 minit berdepan Boca dan Maradona adalah detik paling istimewa dalam karier saya.
" Jarang sekali kita dapat bermain dengan kelab terkemuka Amerika Selatan seperti Boca, saya sangat menghargai saat-saat itu, " katanya.
- Utusan Malaysia -
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Penang FA Vs Negeri Sembilan FA (1970)
Last edited by HangPC2 on 25-8-2012 11:25 AM
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Ghani Minhat In Action For Selangor Rangers (1960)
Sources : http://www.pro-sports.biz/
Last edited by HangPC2 on 28-9-2012 05:43 PM
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Post time 25-12-2011 01:02 AM
