According the news report taken from Utusan Malaysia today, the Pasukan Kebangsaan stands to receive a nice 'reward' from the FAM if they perform well in the upcoming AFC Asian Cup 2007. Tengku Abdullah, the Vice-President of FAM was quoted as saying that the 'reward' has always been ready and waiting for 'quite some time', but that they have not been able to give it to Pasukan Kebangsaan as they have not performed well in tournaments.
Of course, it helps that FAM has recently received the RM12.3 million from the NSC (National Sports Council). According to the news report, a total of RM 300,000 alone will be given to the team for this Asian Cup outing.
RM 300,000 means Malaysia will get or spend an average of RM 100,000 per game day. Where does this money go to? To the players? To the technical team? Expenditure? If it is the latter, what kind of expenditure? It seems like a lot of money. After all, we are hosting the game and 'we' meaning FAM itself and not the Pasukan Kebangsaan. And being in our country, surely food, accommodation and transport will not cost so much? It does not really specify whether the money will be given during the tournament, or after they achieved some sort of 'success'. So is it an early incentive?
It's pretty hard to understand FAM's stance on this. Are we trying to motivate the team this way? Through rewards? What kind of reward? Money? Land titles? And with the team placed in a very difficult group, how would FAM define as 'performing well'? It will be very subjective.
BorakBola that Malaysia pull some surprise win against China and Uzbekistan and maybe hold Iran to a draw. Ambitious but never impossible because in football anything can happen. Heck, even one win against any of these three giants of Asia would be performing well. But does that mean that the team will be rewarded then?
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