When it was announced that Nigeria could not make it on time to play Malaysia in the opening day of the competition, I presumed that they would not even board their flight to come over to play a meaningless games.
But I was wrong, and totally wrong. Although they were disqualified for both their matches, they still turned themselve up to play the match against Japan. The result will not change even if they win the match, but they still came out to courts, enjoying themselve, playing against higher ranked opponents, with the attitude of learning from the best.
This made me salute their effort and their sportmanships. I truely hope they would baord the plane on time to come to Malaysia to play against anyone because they are so keen to learn. This make me think of our own players, especially Fairuzizuan and Zakry.
Fairuz-Zakry was once ranked 4th in the world, and they have the opportunity to become even higher in ranking, but they are too arrogant, and cocky after winning just 2 minor tournaments in Indonesian and Singapore Opens. They act like they have already won the World Championship, Olympics, All England and other major championships. Their performance eversince has dropped dramatically and never recover from then on.
So this has put us, Malaysian into shame because with the resources and background we have, they are not keen to improve themselve, while Nigeria, a country not famous for Badminton, is so eargerly learn to improve or gain the experience of playing at highest level. Nigeria could have just fax over a simple note to IBF stating they missed the flight and pull out of the championship, but they do not, and with limited source of fund, they still come here to learn.
This is what made me most salute them in their attitude and fighting spirit. Malaysia, Zakry and Fairuzizuan, can you?
14 years ago
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment