Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) president Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim said that he was not surprised by the national team’s all-time low FIFA ranking of 174.<\/p>\n
This follows two losses for\u00a0Nelo Vingada’s men earlier this month, both 4-1 defeats\u00a0to North Korea<\/a>, in the 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n “I have a question to ask. Did the fans really think we were going to beat Lebanon? We cannot win against Lebanon,” said Tunku Ismail in a press conference today, as quoted by the News Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n “So what is so surprising? Could we really have beaten North Korea, a team which had previously qualified for the World Cup? I knew before the tournament that we would not win and I did not expect it.<\/p>\n “But as a supporter of the national team, don’t wait for the team to lose before criticising the FAM president, it is irresponsible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) president Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim said that he was not surprised by the national team’s all-time low FIFA ranking of 174. This follows two losses for\u00a0Nelo Vingada’s men earlier this month, both 4-1 defeats\u00a0to North Korea, in the 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers. “I have a question to ask. Did the fans really think we were going to beat Lebanon? We cannot win against Lebanon,” said Tunku Ismail in a press conference today, as quoted by the News Straits Times. “So what is so surprising? Could we really have beaten North Korea, a team which had previously qualified for the World Cup? I knew before the … Continue reading “FAM president ‘not suprised’ by the national team’s all-time low FIFA ranking”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[556,632,64,569],"class_list":["post-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-fam","tag-fifa-rankings","tag-malaysia","tag-tunku-ismail-sultan-ibrahim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025","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=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}