Ramadan's dream

                          *pic taken from The Malay Mail

Project 2013 forward Ramadan Rosli wants to play Australia again - he hopes the national under-21 team will not slip against India today.

Australia are already in the final and await the identity of the opponents. It could be Malaysia, Korea or India - all three teams the Aussies have already beaten.

Read what Ramadan had to say here

Ramadan plies his trade at university side UniKL, despite being courted by big guns KL Hockey Club, Sapura and Tenaga Nasional Berhad. Read on it here

Captain's calling

Pic taken from The Malay Mail. Pixmen - Razak Ghazali

Project 2013 skipper Noor Faeez Ibrahim called for a response from his team after just one point from two games in the on-going Sultan of Johor Cup.

Fittingly, doing what a captain should do, he inspired his teammates to wins over much fancied Korea and Pakistan - initiating proceedings in both the matches.

Read on Faeez's heroics here.

Now Malaysia has a chance to qualify for the final - beat India and we are in. Australia have already qualified after winning all four of matches thus far.

Will Faeez step up again? - Watch India v Malaysia @8.05pm tomorrow (Oct 11)

Malaysia 2 Thailand 1

Malaysia could have had only themselves to be blamed had they not won this.

No doubt our young tigers played a much better game compared to the lackluster performance against Singapore a couple of days back.

However, the scoreline failed to justify Malaysia's dominance in the match. It could and probably should have been a three or four goal margin win for Kim Swee's boys. 

The young boys, unsurprisingly, got either nervous in front of goal and/or just lack the finishing touches.

Thankfully a late goal by Izzaq Faris ensured we picked up 3 points. Baddrol Bakhtiar scored the other in the first half.

The quest to defend the SEA Games medal is on? too early to say

Next up - Cambodia @5pm on Nov 13

A great win over Korea for Project 2013 boys

NO WAY, JOSE : Malaysian goalkeeper Mohamad Hazrul Faiz Ahmad Sobri (left) stops a shot from Korea's Seung Ho-im - pic taken from The Malay Mail

Skipper Noor Faeez Ibrahim had a day earlier insisted his team can rise to defeat the undefeated Koreans. This of course after Malaysia failing to win their first two matches...

Project 2013 responded in style and it was the captain who got the proceedings going...

Read the match report here and on the Sultan of Johor Cup site 

I hope to stay on

Karate coach had previous been given the boot.... but some splendid drama unfolded later on involving the exponents and Malaysia Karate Federation ensured that was not the end to it...

                                    Arivalagan with several exponents. Pic taken from www.n9kini.com


An agreement was struck for Arivalagan to stay on until the end of SEA Games. However, there has not been any talk about a replacement and Arivalagan is unsure of his future. But one thing clear he believes he'll be back as coach someday even if asked to leave after the regional games.

Read what Arivalagan had to say about his possible departure and the SEA Games here

If you have no clue what transpired some months ago read this, this and that....