Syabas Malaysia!
Pemain-Pemain Malaysia meraikan kejayaan memenangi pingat emas acara bola sepak Sukan SEA XXVI selepas menewaskan Indonesia 4-3 menerusi penentuan sepakan penalti di Stadium Gelora Bung Karno, Jakarta, malam tadi. – Bernama
JAKARTA - Tiada apa yang lebih sempurna daripada merangkul pingat emas Sukan SEA; ‘ibu’ kepada segala pingat sebagai penutup tirai temasya kali ke XXVI buat kontinjen Malaysia.
Setelah berjuang habis-habisan di Stadium Gelora Bung Karno untuk lebih dua jam, skuad Harimau Muda kebanggaan kita memakbulkan harapan setiap rakyat Malaysia yang menyaksikan kelibat mereka di kaca televisyen malam tadi.
Tidak mengapa kita ketinggalan pada awal permainan.
Wira-wira kita tidak mengalah, sebaliknya mereka bangkit dengan segera untuk menyamakan kedudukan dan seterusnya mengawal permainan, sekali gus membuatkan kira-kira 100,000 penyokong fanatik tuan rumah terdiam.
Bermula dari saat itu, perlawanan berlangsung agak seimbang menyaksikan kedua-dua pasukan buntu mencari gol pada waktu sebenar permainan, malah 30 minit tambahan pun tidak berkesudahan.
Setiap kali penjaga gol sensasi kita, Khairul Fahmi Che Mat diperlukan, dia tidak pernah mengecewakan dan semalam dia membuktikan keupayaannya sekali lagi, komitmen yang sering kali ditunjukkannya apabila dengan tenang menyelamatkan sepakan penalti Ferdinan Sinaga.
Dan ketua pasukan, Baddrol Bakhtiar; salah seorang anggota skuad yang menjuarai temasya Vientianne dua tahun lalu melaksanakan tugasnya untuk mempertahankan pingat emas buat kali pertama sejak 1979 yang mana ketika itu turut dilakar di Jakarta.
Tangisan para penyokong Laskar Garuda adalah difahami. Bukan saja tewas di bumi sendiri, malah sudah dua dekad tidak mengecapi kejayaan sejak mereka menang di Manila 1991.
Indonesia mungkin telah meraih 170 pingat emas (setakat pukul 12 tengah malam semalam dan jumlah itu dijangka terus bertambah pada hari terakhir hari ini), namun terlepas pingat emas bola sepak sudah tentu sesuatu yang mendukacitakan.
Andai mampu merangkul 200 emas sekali pun, luka mereka tidak akan terubat
Bagi kontinjen negara pula, sasaran baru 60 pingat emas yang diletakkan Menteri Belia dan Sukan, Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek dua hari lalu sepatutnya dalam jangkauan jika petinju kita, Muhamad Farkhan Mohd. Harun mampu meraih pingat emas ke-59 kita.
Malangnya, dia ditumbangkan secara kontroversi oleh peninju tuan rumah, Alex Tatontos di Palembang.
Terdahulu Malaysia, dipimpin Fatehah Mustapa, membuktikan kejaguhannya dalam arena berbasikal trek yang tiada tolok bandingnya dengan menambah empat pingat emas di Velodrom Ramawangun. Begitu juga dengan gadis- gadis kolam renang kita yang menyapu bersih kesemua lima emas dipertandingkan dalam sukan renang berirama di Pusat Akuatik Kompleks Jakabaring.
Kontinjen negara dijangka tidak akan menambah pungutan pingat emas untuk menggenapkan angka 60 kerana hanya tinggal sukan paragliding yang bukan merupakan sukan harapan pada hari terakhir temasya .
Ia sudah lebih daripada memadai, syabas diucapkan!
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Congratulations Malaysia!
Malaysia Players celebrate winning the gold medal at the SEA Games football tournament after beating Indonesia 4-3 XXVI penalty shootout Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta, Friday night. - Bernama
JAKARTA - Nothing is more perfect than the SEA Games gold medal; 'mother' of all the medals in the tournament curtain closing times for the Malaysian contingent XXVI.
After a fierce fight in Gelora Bung Karno Stadium for more than two hours, the pride of Young Tigers squad we realize the hope of every Malaysian who witnessed the sight of them on television last night.
Not why we left early in the game.
Our heroes do not give in, but they rise immediately to equalize and to control the game, thus making about 100,000 fanatical home fans silenced.
From the moment the last match quite well-balanced saw both teams deadlocked at a goal to find the actual game, but an additional 30 minutes did not end.
Every time our sensational goalkeeper, Khairul Fahmi Che Mat needed, he never disappoints and today he is to prove itself once again, a commitment which often showed when saving a penalty calmly Ferdinan Sinaga.
And the team leader, Bakhtiar Baddrol; a member of the squad who won the tournament two years ago Vientianne perform its duties to defend the gold medal for the first time since 1979, which was then also drawn in Jakarta.
Laskar supporters crying Garuda is understood. Not only defeat in their own land, but have not enjoyed success two decades since they won in Manila in 1991.
Indonesia may have won 170 gold medals (as of 12 midnight yesterday and the number is expected to increase on the last day today), but missed the gold medal soccer certainly something that saddens.
If able to clinch the 200 gold whatsoever, wounds they will not be terubat
For the contingent, the new target of 60 gold medals placed Youth and Sports Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek last two days should be within reach if our boxer, Muhammad Farkhan Mohd. Aaron has won 59 gold medals to us.
Unfortunately, he was overthrown in controversy by the host boxer, Alex Tatontos in Palembang.
Earlier, Malaysia, led Fatehah Mustapa, proven track cycling arena kejaguhannya unmatched by adding four gold medals at Velodrom Ramawangun. Similarly, the girls of our pool of sweeping all five gold medals in the sport of swimming competition at the Aquatic Complex rhythmic Plaza.
Contingent is not expected to add the gold medal in order to fulfill the number 60 because only a sport of paragliding is not a hope in the last day of sports games.
It was more than enough, I applaud!
After last week’s top goals of the week poll was happily hijacked by Poland (Legia’s Rafal Wolski claiming an enormous 19,945 votes), this week Serbs, Scots, Algerians, Malaysians, Aussies and Mexicans all have the chance to back golazos from their neck of the woods.
