Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) general secretary Hamidin Amin urged the local supporters to lay-off unwarranted criticism towards the recent dismal performance of the national team.<\/p>\n
“Fans need to make an analysis based on facts,” said Hamidin in a statement on Thursday, as quoted by the New Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Firstly, the national team’s performance has not been good for a while and it is our duty to find a new formula to improve its performances.<\/p>\n “Secondly, many took issue when Tunku Ismail said being president is only a part-time job. This statement is correct because all FAM executive committee members serve on a part-time basis.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Hamidin\u00a0defended FAM president\u00a0Tunku Ismail Idris (TMJ),\u00a0claiming that Malaysian clubs cannot be financially viable without the Johor Crown Prince.<\/p>\n “Should Tunku Ismail decide to leave FAM, it is the association which will suffer.<\/p>\n “Previously, FAM did not give more than RM400,000 but if Tunku Ismail no longer heads FAM, then the sponsors will withdraw and then there will be no money to distribute.”<\/p>\n Malaysia\u00a0plunged to number 170 in the latest FIFA rankings list for October, which has been the national team’s worst ranking since TMJ took charge in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) general secretary Hamidin Amin urged the local supporters to lay-off unwarranted criticism towards the recent dismal performance of the national team. “Fans need to make an analysis based on facts,” said Hamidin in a statement on Thursday, as quoted by the New Straits Times. “Firstly, the national team’s performance has not been good for a while and it is our duty to find a new formula to improve its performances. “Secondly, many took issue when Tunku Ismail said being president is only a part-time job. This statement is correct because all FAM executive committee members serve on a part-time basis.” Meanwhile, Hamidin\u00a0defended FAM president\u00a0Tunku Ismail … Continue reading “FAM general secretary defends TMJ amid supporters’ criticism”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}