The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) plans to work with the states football associations and clubs to enhance the youth development structure of the country.<\/p>\n
In the FAM\u00a0Executive Committee meeting on Saturday, FAM President\u00a0Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim (TMJ) pointed out that there is no link between\u00a0top flight\u00a0football competitions and grassroots level.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have studied the La Liga module, Italy league and in other parts of world, including Thailand\u2026They have youth development in each district, school and teams to encourage more community teams and businessmen to owns club because at the end of the day, the future of Malaysian football will always fall on youth development,” TMJ said, as quoted by the New Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the competitions around the states and districts need to somehow tally and get the best to qualify to the Division 4 and 5 to be introduced from next year. We (FAM) have to put a lot of energy and dedication to get teams and clubs to embrace our policy and philosophy.”<\/p>\n In the end of 2017, Malaysia national team plunged to the lowest ranking<\/a> ever in FIFA rankings, which drew massive criticism from the public and the demands to reconstruct the national football system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) plans to work with the states football associations and clubs to enhance the youth development structure of the country. In the FAM\u00a0Executive Committee meeting on Saturday, FAM President\u00a0Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim (TMJ) pointed out that there is no link between\u00a0top flight\u00a0football competitions and grassroots level. \u201cWe have studied the La Liga module, Italy league and in other parts of world, including Thailand\u2026They have youth development in each district, school and teams to encourage more community teams and businessmen to owns club because at the end of the day, the future of Malaysian football will always fall on youth development,” TMJ said, as quoted by … Continue reading “Malaysia FA plans to enhance the youth development structure of the country”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[556,64,555],"class_list":["post-9529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-fam","tag-malaysia","tag-tmj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529","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=9529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}