30 October, 2009

Why Majority of Singapore Player are Malay?

What is soccer always associated as a Malay's game? I remembered during recess time during my secondary school days when we played in the basketball court using a tennis ball and 2 person will be in charge of choosing their teammates. Almost always Malay players will be group into 1 team and all the Chinese players into one team?

Even when we had inter-class soccer, the form teacher will always say 'Can the Malays form the team for soccer' and 'Chinese please form your team for basketball'.

But I was thinking while most of us blame on the parents of Chinese that placed education than sports, why only soccer seems to have the most adverse effect for the lack of participation from the Chinese? Basketball teams are predominantly a Chinese game. Most national swimmers are Chinese. And a lot of sports besides soccer and sepak takraw although the latter I believed is a traditional Malay game have no issues from the lack of participation from the Chinese. So guys and gals, can we discuss further on where actually the problem lies?

I hope the above doesn't touch any raw nerve on our Malay members here. I do not mean to be a racial thing but let's face it, it's happening.

It boils down to one word... perception.

I remembered having conversations with a few of the NFA coaches before; and to cut the whole story short, they have previously identified a few chinese youth players for their NFA teams; but it did not materialise because their parents put a stop to it, because of fear of affecting studies!

There are promising chinese players out there, but the question remains if their parents are prepared to let them play at a higher level than school or amateurly.

If you look at the amateur competitions out there, you will find quite a bit of chinese players during the weekends... as opposed to struggling to find a handful of them in the S-League.. simply because not many chinese players are prepared to do this as a living.

it's never too old to start; if your son is keen, then he should start kicking around with friends and "grow" from there. As I know, like tbee said, most schools cater for both the competitive footballers and non-competitive ones as well. It would be better for your son to train with the non-competitive ones so that he can benefit more from learning the basic skills first; whereas the focus of training with the school competitive team can be more advanced where most footballers are already quite good players, and the coach will drill more on tactics etc. Even if the coach accommodates the beginners to train with the better school team boys... just imagine them in a 2-side training game!! In the long run, the beginners will not enjoy it and it's of little good to their confidence.

Anyway, instead of speculating, why not just check with the school for more details? Good luck!

20 comments:

  1. because most malays live in hdb flats n we will head down to our basketball court every evening without fail..playing from 5-10pm..unlike chinese, majority lives on landed properties or condominiums..we have the perception of even if we are not going to make it in studies, we can still work a low-paying job even as a security guard or despatch rider at a young age..why do most pizza hut riders are malays..as long as we meet ends meet, we are thankkful to god for his giving..to sum it all up, it is more of the way chinese consider and plan their future as successful as they wanna be..and i respect that..

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  2. The career of a soccer player is short and the prospects thereafter is bleak. With this in mind, I think Chinese parents do not want their kids to pursue this career. Singapore's favourite footballing son is Malay after all.

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  3. HAIYA! malay or chinese still same what..cut hand blood red colour!

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  4. i'm a malay, used to come from a secondary school where there the malay population is big. I remember once representing my house colours for the basketball team because there's not much chinese basketball players.

    coincidentally the school basketball team captain also played for my house and he sees me good enough to represent the school basketball team and invited me to join.

    I did join the basketball training sessions and made it as the only malay to represent the all chinese school basketball team. I represented the school for only 3 matches before withdrawing myself from the team.

    the reason for my withdrawal. Language Barrier. The whole team including the teacher-in-charge/coach spoke in chinese. the teacher was chinese educated and only teach chinese in school and couldn't converse in english.

    Basketball like football is a team game where communication is vital. Without speaking the "language", your're at a disadvantage.

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  5. I agree so much with the first Anonymous commentor.

    Indeed, we are the humble people, not greeding for too much in life. As long as we make an honest living, we are satisfied. No 5Cs? It's ok. And yes, Malay boys always play soccer under void decks without fail. Even when they're being reprimanded, that didn't deter them from continuing what they love.

    That's how they become better and then best at it. Ronaldinho started kicking coconuts btw.

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