Comment of Li Mao

Yesterday's comments from our ex-national badminton coach, Li Mao has expose yet again our sports governing body's inability to lead and guide the national players. What is said by Li may not be fully correct, but at least there are some truth in it I suppose.

First of all it would not be appropriate for Li Mao to comment on BAM's authority after leaving the camp for such long time. It would be unfair to judge BAM now as compare to few years back because there may be some improvement from the BAM managements side. But there must be some fact that leads to Li Mao's comment.

We all know all along that Misbun Sidek is the coach of independent body's single players. Yet he's been involving in all major tournament events all the time, and he is even given the authority to have some say in the decision making issues. For Li Mao, he was hired by BAM to be in charge of the single players, and if I was given a job which could be affected by some outsiders' decision, surely I would not be happy about it, which is the case of Li Mao I believe.

Secondly, since Li Mao's departure, BAM doesn't have a proper single coach to lead, and from what we see Misbun is always at any event's coaching area. I really wanted to know who's BAM single coach at the moment? I don't see BAM stands out to protect their single coach at all whatever happened. Who is this Misbun Sidek? Why is he so powerful that BAM has to give in to all his antics? No wonder Malaysia's badminton standard always stay where they belongs, and with such kind of thinking and mentality BAM will not excel further no matter who they hire as coach.

It is entirely different for the Doubles's coach. Rexy is given the free hand to do what he thinks is right and Rexy would not hesitate to speaks out what he think of his trainees. That's what Li Mao failed to do during his tenure with BAM, and now probably he's regretted it for not speaking out loud enough then, and also he's not given enough authority then. It is very obvious that during Li Mao's tenure as single coach, Misbun's appearance did unsettle all the players because he (Misbun) thinks he's all too important to the national team, and BAM is stupid enough to let such things boil over and causing the situation it is now.

One more thing I would want to say, but surely a lot of you might not agree with me, which is BAM did all they did simply because Li Mao is a NON-BUMI here, and Misbun is a god damn bumi. That's why