Friday, May 18, 2012

Bukan soal gaji - Yong-sung



YONG-SUNG ditemani isterinya, Song Eun young menjelaskan punca beliau meletakkan jawatan pada sidang akhbar di Kuala Lumpur semalam.



BEKAS jurulatih beregu lelaki, Yoo Yong-sung tampil menyuarakan rasa tidak puas hati terhadap Persatuan Badminton Malaysia (BAM) di sebalik isu peletakan jawatan beliau.
Yong-sung menerusi jurubahasanya berkata, kenyataan yang dikeluarkan Setiausaha Kehormat BAM, Ng Chin Chai dan Pengurus Besar BAM, Kenny Goh bahawa peletakan jawatannya disebabkan badan induk itu tidak dapat memenuhi tuntutan gaji yang diminta adalah tidak benar.
Sebaliknya, jurulatih kelahiran Korea Selatan itu menjelaskan, punca utama beliau meletak jawatan adalah disebabkan BAM tidak memberi peluang kepada dirinya untuk melatih pemain yang sama secara tetap.
“Dalam hal ini, faktor gaji tidak timbul. Jika ingin bercakap soal gaji, saya menerima gaji yang lebih rendah di sini (Malaysia) sepanjang enam bulan dengan BAM, berbanding ketika menjadi jurulatih di Korea Selatan.
“Masalah utamanya ialah BAM tidak memberikan peluang kepada saya untuk melatih pemain yang sama secara tetap. Setiap hari saya melatih pemain yang berbeza dan lebih malang saya hanya ada tempoh 10 hingga 20 minit sahaja untuk melatih mereka.
“Saya tidak kisah jika BAM tidak membenarkan saya melatih pemain utama tetapi sekurang-kurangnya saya mahu melatih pemain yang sama secara tetap, kerana mahu berkongsi pengalaman yang dimiliki dengan pemain,” kata Yong sung ketika sidang akhbar khas yang diadakan di Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur semalam.
BAM mengesahkan bahawa Yong sung telah menyerahkan surat peletakan jawatan pada 30 April lalu dan memaklumkan, keputusan tersebut dibuat disebabkan jurulatih itu tidak bersetuju dengan pakej gaji baharu yang di tawarkan.
Mengulas lanjut, Yong-sung memberitahu, beliau ada mengadakan perbincangan dengan pengurusan BAM, namun kedua-dua pihak gagal mencari jalan penyelesaian terbaik.
“Saya ada mengadakan perbincangan dengan BAM (Chin Chai dan Kenny) mengenai perkara itu tetapi mereka tetap tidak bersetuju dengan permintaan saya.
“Sebab itu saya membuat keputusan untuk meletak jawatan kerana saya sudah tidak gembira berada di Malaysia.
“Sejurus saya mememberitahu mereka yang saya mahu meletak jawatan, mereka terus bertanya kepada saya berapa gaji yang saya mahukan tetapi sekali lagi saya tegaskan yang gaji bukan masalah utama,” jelas Yong-sung.
Beliau turut mendakwa bahawa BAM juga tidak membenarkannya ke Vietnam untuk bersama pemain-pemain muda negara beraksi dalam satu kejohanan pada Mac lalu.
Sepanjang tempoh enam bulan percubaan, BAM pada awalnya memberikan Yong-sung peranan untuk melatih beregu muda negara.
Beliau juga diminta membantu Kim Her serta jurulatih beregu lelaki, Pang Cheh Chang bagi mengembalikan semula ‘sengat’ Kien Keat-Boon Heong.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Sekitar PNBC Open Circuit 2012

PNBC Open Circuit 2012 telah di adakan dengan jayanya di Dewan Taman Desa Melati pada 13 Mei 2012. Seramai 18 orang telah mengambil bahagian, pertandingan diadakan secara liga, dan dua beregu terbaik dari setiap kumpulan layak ke semi final. Bemula jam 9.30 pagi, dan berakhir pada jam 2.00 petang. Berikut adalah senarai pemenang:

Juara : Cik Li/Khairul
Naib Juara : Hanif/Daroji
Semifinalis: Zahari/Meor & Muhlis/Helmie



Tahniah kepada pemenang dan semua yang telah menyertai. Bagi pihak penganjur, kami memohon maaf sekiranya ada kesilapan dan kesalahan yang telah dilakukan....jumpa lagi di masa yang akan datang!!!

Hadiah tahun ini....
Semifinalis
Naib Juara....Hanif/Daroji
Juara kita.....Cik Li/Khairul...tahniah!!!
Mereka yang sampai ke pengakhiran: Dari kiri: Azman, Khairul, Cik Li, Sani, Zakaria, Helmie, Meor, Zahari, Alwi, Daroji, Hanif (belakang), Muhlis

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Guangzhou lokasi kem negara

SKUAD Piala Thomas negara yang diketuai pemain nombor satu dunia, Datuk Lee Chong Wei akan berlepas ke Guangzhou, China, esok bagi melakukan persediaan akhir sebelum menghadapi kejohanan itu di Wuhan bermula 20 hingga 27 Mei ini.
Ketua jurulatih acara perseorangan lelaki, Rashid Sidek berkata, skuad negara akan menjalani latihan fasa akhir selama lima hari di wilayah Guangzhou mulai Isnin ini.

Katanya pemilihan Guangzhou disebabkan kemudahan latihan yang lengkap di sana manakala tidak mengetahui kemudahan yang disediakan penganjur pada venue kejohanan di wilayah Wuhan.
Rashid berkata, pemain dapat memberi tumpuan penuh kepada latihan di Guangzhou berbanding di Wuhan yang mempunyai gangguan daripada peminat dan kehadiran pasukan dari negara bertanding.

Beliau berkata demikian selepas majlis menandatangani Memorandum Perjanjian (MoA) antara Persatuan Badminton Malaysia (BAM) dan pembekal perkhidmatan telekomunikasi, Maxis Berhad, semalam.

Presiden BAM, Datuk Seri Mohd Nadzmi Mohd Salleh menandatangani perjanjian itu manakala Maxis diwakili Ketua Pegawai Kewangannya, Nasution Mohamed.
Mengikut MoA itu, Maxis akan menyokong program pembangunan BAM seperti kemudahan latihan, memberi subsidi kepada pemain, bayaran untuk jurulatih serta kos penghantaran pemain negara bertanding di pelbagai kejohanan.

Rashid turut menyuarakan keyakinan skuad negara mampu mencapai sasaran ke peringkat separuh akhir Piala Thomas berdasarkan prestasi semasa pemain dalam beberapa kejohanan sebelum ini.
“Bagaimanapun Denmark mampu menjadi penghalang kepada Malaysia untuk mara ke separuh akhir,” katanya.

Metro
(Foto: Memori 1992) 

Nadzmi: Bond among Thomas Cup players will grow stronger in Guangzhou

The bond among the players will grow stronger when the Malaysian Thomas Cup team, led by World No. 1 Lee Chong Wei, switch their training base from Kuala Lumpur to Guangzhou as part of their final preparations for the Finals in Wuhan from May 20-27.
That was the assurance given by Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) president Datuk Seri Nadzmi Mohd Salleh.
Nadzmi admitted that the team were not Malaysia’s strongest but they would go all out in every tie.
For the past few days, the atmosphere at centralised training at Stadium Juara in Bukit Kiara had been rather sombre with players and coaches minding their own programmes.
There was hardly any excitement and it seemed as though the team spirit was lacking.
Nadzmi, however, has denied claims that the team, comprising Chong Wei, Liew Daren, Mohd Hafiz Hashim, Chong Wei Feng, Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong, Lim Khim Wah-Goh V Shem and Hoon Thien How-Tan Wee Kiong, are not united.
“The players have known each other for a long time and there should not be any problems in building camaraderie,” said Nadzmi, during a press conference after striking a deal with Maxis Berhad to support BAM’s elite and development programmes.
BAM coaching and training chairman Ng Chin Chai also assured that the situation would improve when the team stay together in Guangzhou during their centralised training from May 13-18.
“The players have been playing in so many competitions,” said Chin Chai
“The qualifying period for the Olympic Games ended last month and the players also featured in the Malaysian Open Grand Prix Gold. They were given a day’s rest before they resumed training.
“In Guangzhou, the team will be together in one home – they will eat and train together.”
Team manager Datuk Sayed Abu Bakar, who joined the squad for the first time yesterday, assured that all players will abide by the rules, stay focused and give their best in the Thomas Cup Finals.
Just three months ago, the team were in high spirits as they defied the odds to beat South Korea at the qualifiers in Macau to seal a ticket for the Finals.
The Malaysian team, whose target is to reach the semi-finals in Wuhan, will leave for China tomorrow.
At the last Thomas Cup in Kuala Lumpur in 2010, Malaysia – who last won the Cup in 1992 – were whipped 0-3 by China in the semi-finals.
Courtesy of The Star

New major sponsor Maxis sign two-year deal worth millions with BAM

A timely entry of a new major sponsor set the stage for a trip down memory lane for badminton yesterday.
Maxis Berhad became the latest big sponsor of the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) by signing a two-year deal worth millions. Although no details were given, it is believed the telecommunication giants will provide RM2mil per year. And BAM president Datuk Seri Nadzmi Mohd Salleh had the perfect combo to inspire the players to keep striving for excellence ahead of the Thomas Cup Finals and the Olympic Games.
After the signing ceremony, Nadzmi issued a challenge to the players to maintain badminton’s reputation as one of the country’s core sports.
Early this year, BAM had also worked out a partnership with Maybank via a multi-million deal.
With more money, comes greater accountability and responsibility and Nadzmi has challenged the players to live up to expectations by shining at the Thomas Cup in Wuhan from May 20-27 and the London Olympics from July 27-Aug 12.
The Thomas Cup team, comprising Lee Chong Wei, Liew Daren, Mohd Hafiz Hashim, Chong Wei Feng, Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong, Lim Khim Wah-Goh V Shem, Hoon Thien How-Tan Wee Kiong and their coaches turned up for BAM’s signing ceremony with the telco company at Menara Maxis in Kuala Lumpur.
“Our sport has always been scrutinised and criticised, but the sponsors keep on coming and supporting us. This is a testament of BAM’s success story,” said Nadzmi.
“But players in the BAM should not take this for granted. They must continue to work hard and achieve more, and ensure that the money will continue to be in the coffers. We are not fielding the best team for the Thomas Cup Finals, but they should go all out to meet the top four target. In the Olympics, all eyes will be on Chong Wei to win the gold. All this piles on the pressure but sometimes, with pressure, we can achieve more.”
Nadzmi also paid tribute to all the past badminton heroes for giving the sport a good name – something which have attracted many sponsors to BAM.
He highlighted all the victories of Thomas Cup teams in 1949, 1952, 1955, 1967, 1992 and the Olympic Games medallists – Razif Sidek-Jalani Sidek (1992 Barcelona, bronze), Cheah Soon Kit-Yap Kim Hock (1996 Atlanta, silver), Rashid Sidek (1996 Atlanta, bronze) and Chong Wei (2008 Beijing, silver).
“They built the foundation for badminton and we are here today because of them.
“And we have many sponsors as our partners because of these past winners,” said Nadzmi.
“The current players must carry on from here, so that 20 years down the road we will still be talking about success stories in badminton,” he said.
Nadzmi added that BAM would focus more on development programmes.
“When I became BAM president, the association had a RM3mil deficit. We had to spend time clearing the debts and looking into short-term programmes.
“Now, with more sponsors, we can come out with long-term development programmes. This will ensure a brighter future.”
Others present at the ceremony were Maxis Berhad chairman Raja Tan Sri Datuk Seri Arshad Raja Uda, chief financial officer Nasution Mohd and senior vice president and head of enterprise and government business Fitri Abdullah.
Courtesy of The Star

Thursday, May 10, 2012

PNBC Open 2012

PUTRA NILAI - Buat julung-julung kalinya, Putra Nilai Badminton Club (PNBC) akan mengadakan inter badminton tournament yang terbuka kepada semua ahli. Ia dikenali sebagai PNBC OPEN 2012. Berikut adalah maklumat berkaitan:

Masa : 9.30 pagi
Tarikh : 13 Mei 2012
Tempat: Dewan Desa Melati
Acara : Beregu sahaja

Kepada yang telah mendaftarkan diri, jangan lupa sila hadir, undian akan bermula jam 9.30 pagi.... hadiah kepada yang layak ke separuh akhir....

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

London 2012 Singles Qualification: Estonian edged-out Evans, Harrington’s heartache

After 363 days and 110 tournaments, the qualifiers for the 2012 Olympic Games from 52 Members Associations have been determined upon the publication of the BWF World Ranking on Thursday 3 May 2012.
This World Ranking has recorded the average points of the top 10 results of each athlete accumulated at BWF-sanctioned tournaments held between 3 May 2011 and 29 April 2012.
The two singles disciplines saw photo-finish moments at the end of the London 2012 Qualification race.
Men’s Singles: Official BWF Qualification List
In the men’s singles, a total of 40 places from 34 Members Associations have been awarded, with 38 spots awarded as per regulations and 2 provisional spots (*) were awarded to ensure the gender equity of 82 representatives of each gender is achieved.
The provisional spots were determined based on the number of male and female players who have qualified for more than one discipline, as such, 2 male and 8 female players have qualified in more than one of the five disciplines on 3 May.
2 Tripartite places were also awarded in the men’s singles discipline to Suriname’s Virgil Soeroredjo and Maldive’s Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed as per recommendations of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The 5 continents were also assured of representations by the Federation with Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei (Asia, pictured left), Denmark’s Peter Gade (Europe), Guatemala’s Kevin Cordon (Pan Am), Uganda’s Edwin Ekiring (Africa) and New Zealand’s James Eunson (Oceania) named as the top representative of each of the 5 continents on 3 May.
Peru's Rodrigo Pachecho Carrillo is given a provisional qualification spot based on 3 May’s World Ranking, while world number 66 Raul Must scooped the other and last spot.
The Estonian has pipped Ireland’s Scott Evans by just 55.08 points, which, puts the Irishman first on the reserve list. Reserves will only be sent an invitation if there's a withdrawal.
Women’s Singles: Official BWF Qualification List#
In the women’s singles, a total of 46 places from 42 Members Associations have been awarded, with 38 spots awarded as per regulations and 8 provisional spots (*) are currently awarded to ensure the gender equity as mentioned above.
No tripartite places were awarded in the women’s singles discipline.
The 5 continents were also assured of representations by the Federation with China’s Wang Yihan (Asia), Denmark’s Tine Baun (Europe, pictured right), Canada’s Michelle Li (Pan Am), Egypt’s Hadia Hosny (Africa) and New Zealand’s Michelle Chan (Oceania, pictured bottom left) named as the top representative of each of the 5 continents on 3 May.
Despite of the assured African continental qualification spot, Hadia Hosny has also taken the last of the 8 provisional women's singles invitations based on 3 May's World Rankings, edging out South Africa’s Kerry-Lee Harrington by just 45.506 points.
However, as South Africa have been awarded two continental qualification tickets in the doubles, then for Harrington to be London-bound via continental qualification (in the event if Hadia turns down her invitation), will mean South Africa will have to choose to forfeit one of the continental qualification invitations as each country is only entitled to a maximum of two continental qualification tickets.
Australia's Victoria Na has taken the first provisional qualifier spot based on 3 May's World Rankings, but unlike Harrington, even if Michelle Chan turns down her invitation then Victoria will take the last confirmed spot based on ranking regulations, as well as being Oceania's top representative without hindering the two Continental Qualification tickets that have been awarded to her teammates in the men's and women's doubles.
Singles Country Quota
With country quota in place, countries with more than 2 singles players qualified in the Top 16 such as Denmark in men’s singles, or more than 3 singles players qualified in the Top 4 such as China in women’s singles, will have to take their pick on the two (if Top 16) or three (if Top 4) to send to London.
2 singles players per country can qualify if they are ranked in the Top 16 on 3 May but a country can have up to 3 singles representatives if they are ranked in the Top 4 on 3 May.
Every other country will also have a decision to make as long as they have more than one singles player ranked above the last qualified player sans Continental Qualification.
All Member Associations have until 31 May to decide on their representatives for the 2012 London Olympic Games in accordance to the quota(s) decided by the BWF to balance having the best players and global diversity at the Games.
Withdrawals and reserves replacements are however possible until 20 July 2012. The live draw ceremony will be held on 23 July 2012 in London.
For further enquiries, do contact BWF Communications Officer Jan j.lin@bwfbadminton.org.
#Editor's note: A management decision was taken to clarify the women's singles qualification regulations on Friday 4 May afternoon, thereby resulting in a clearer standing on the women's singles Olympic qualification list that has been updated on the website.