History
The golden age
Pre Malaysia
Prior to the formation of Malaysia, the Malaysian football team is known as Malaya football team. The team is very scary and the strongest teams in Asia in the early 1950s until the late 1960s along with the national football team of South Korea. Malaya is the best achievement won the bronze medal in 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia after defeating South Vietnam 4-1. Promulgate the team players names like Abdul Ghani Minhat (the title "King of Football"), Arthur Koh, G. Govindaraju, Robert Choe, Edwin Dutton and Stanley Gabriel.
Post Malaysia
After the formation of Malaysia on September 16, 1963, this team until now known as the Malaysian football team (Harimau Malaya). Glory of this team going after the formation of Malaysia with top players such as NAMEThe T and Shaharuddin Abdullah Abdullah, Wong Fook Chuan, N. Thanabalan, Norbit and captain Abdullah Zulkifli Nordin. Malaysia managed to qualify for the Olympic Games 1972 in Munich, capturing Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines during the journey. Two years later, Malaysia repeat performance in 1962 when once again won the bronze medal in 1974 Asian Games in Tehran after beating North Korea 2-1. Malaysian team's success continued when consecutive qualifying for the Asian Cup in 1976 and 1980.
At this time the football team saw an increase in the generation of the legendary players, led by lightning striker Mokhtar Dahari, Santokh Singh and defense partner Soh Chin Aun (known as Asia's best defensive pair in the 70s) and R. Arumugam, known as "Spiderman" because of their ability keep the goal the goal.
After that, Malaysia once again qualified for the 1980 Olympics but the government boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980 to protest the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. This resulted in the Malaysian football team could not play in the tournament. But the national team was still able to produce quality players as "the first player to be the defender" overlapping "of the world, Serbegeth Singh (or Shebby Singh as known now), Zainal Abidin Hassan, Dollah Salleh and Lim Teong Kim, who has played for Hertha Berlin in Germany in 1988.
Glory and excellence of this team be stopped like the collapse of a building card in 1994 because the biggest corruption plaguing Malaysian football. Many of the main pillars of the Malaysian team are involved in corruption scandals such as Abu Azizol Matlan Haniffah Marjan and thus destroy the Malaysian football. There are also high-profile players such as Azman Adnan and Khairul Azman Mohamed give continuity to the supporters but national football team has been so disastrously wrong.
Age of the Fall
During the decade of the 2000s saw a glimpse of Muhammad Khalid Jamlus (a player attempts to Eintracht Frankfurt), Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli (she once played for RC Strasbourg) and Indra Putra Mahayuddin, along with other players, but even many in relation to the European team , has not been able to generate interest in national football.
Deterioration of the Malaysian national team to come together with the decline in the domestic league. Many fans blame the corruption scandals Malaysia in 1994 as a catalyst, but the popularity of TV subscriptions also run most of the Malaysian football fans live telecast of local high-profile European matches. With the lack of interest and funds, the Malaysian national football today is still miles distant when compared to the glory days of football in the 1970s and 1980s.
However, the Malaysian national football team B-23 has given a ray of hope when won a gold medal for Malaysia after defeating Vietnam 1-0 despite being the underdog team in the Southeast Asian Games (SEA) 25 in Vientiane, Laos. With this victory, the FAM has upgraded this team into the national team.
Allan Harris era
In December of 2000, Allan Harris has been appointed as the Malaysian football coach Claude Leroy replace, coach of France. Allan Harris is not so foreign name in the international football arena. He was assistant to Terry Venables when handling and FC Barcelona football squad which operates Malaysia is not a very difficult task. After several years of managing the national team of Malaysia, he had to admit that operates Malaysia's national squad is not as easy as he thought.
Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) was very high hopes for him. In the meantime, he had difficulty getting the players who have experience playing overseas. He is also tasked with handling Under-23 squad and the development of youth players placed on his operations.
He helped the Malaysian team won silver in the event the SEA Games in 2001, but local media so clearly dispute his credibility as a professional coach. Criticism was his duty as a burden anymore Malaysian football coach and eventually his contract was terminated in 2004, after Malaysia lost to China 0-4 in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers.
He could give his final comments to local journalists condemned the Malaysian players are too difficult to handle because they apparently did not know to evaluate the more suitable shoes to wear while playing in certain fields.
Bertalan Bicskei era
After the departure of Allan Harris in 2004, FAM has proposed a successor to the Bertalan Bicskei Harris, former goalkeeper and national coach of Hungary, on July 1, 2004. Coaches like Bob Houghton and Dragoslav Stepanovic has been a candidate to fill the spot as the head coach of the Malaysian team before FAM finally agreed to take Bicskei.
Bicskei has led the Malaysian team won third place at the 2004 Tiger Cup, despite having a team that is considered "not strong enough" by the local media. The local media did not agree with the selection of Mohd Amri Yahyah and Muhamad Khalid Jamlus, to be absorbed into the Malaysian squad. However, the two players selected this Bicskei show their ability when Khalid managed to become the second highest scorer in the tournament behind the striker Indonesia, Ilham Jaya Kesuma while Amri an important pillar in Malaysia's victory over Thailand and Indonesia.
During the friendly match against Singapore in Penang on June 8, 2005, Bicskei threw bottles onto the field before pushing one of the players on the ground trying to protect Singapore players and not satisfied with the quality of justice by judges. In September 2005, the contract was terminated FAM Bicskei. This is because trying to get more Bicskei friendly match for Malaysian team's progress, but the FAM have his own opinion.
Bake raised by her era
Bake been raised by her Malaysian team after head coach Bertalan Bicskei contract expiration. During the head coach of Malaysia, raised by her criticized by local media for failing participated in the tournament the Malaysian squad. However, raised by her could bring Malaysia won the bronze medal at the 2005 SEA Games after beating Indonesia 1-0 and the semifinals of the ASEAN Cup 2007, where Malaysia lost on penalties to Singapore. Raised by her positions as head coach after the show stripped by FAM Team embarrassing Malaysia in the 2007 Asian Cup where Malaysia lost 1-5 to China, 0-5 to Uzbekistan and 0-2 to Iran.
Era B. Sathianathan
After sacking Norizan Bakar, B. Sathianathan took over as head coach. Despite having an excellent reputation by helping the Under-23 squad won the Malaysia Merdeka Tournament, B. Sathianathan failed to take further action in the Malaysia World Cup qualifier after losing 4-1 and 0-0 draw with Bahrain in the qualifiers. In 2008, B. Sathianathan again lead Malaysia Merdeka Cup finals. But Malaysia lost on penalties to Vietnam.
At the AFF Suzuki Cup 2008 Malaysia FAM aims to enter the final. Malaysia started well when the national team won 3-0 with Laos. However, Malaysia lost 2-3 to Vietnam in the second game because of an error goalkeeper Mohd Helmi Eliza Elias. Malaysia finally eliminated when they lost 3-0 to Thailand and for the first time knocked out in the group stage since 1998. Sathia status as the coach began to be seen when there is a rumor that says he will be replaced by Peter withe. However Sathia maintained conditional contract he needs to improve Malaysia's position in the FIFA rankings.
At the 2011 Asian Cup qualifying tournament, the Malaysian team 0-5 defeat to the United Arab Emirates team. Supporters criticize defeat resulted FAM and Malaysian coach, B. Sathianathan. Thus B. Sathianathan says he is ready to step down for the Malaysian team progress. He also criticized the Malaysia League Malaysia League says not a real football tournament. Finally in February 2009, the contract Sathia and team manager Soh Chin Aun terminated FAM.
K. Era Rajagopal
Since K. Rajagopal was selected as Malaysia's national coach in April, directed preparation for the SEA Games, which saw the victory over Shanghai Zhong Bang 2-1 in a friendly match in China and a 3-0 win over Singapore's under-23 team, Young Lions 3-0. In a friendly match with a team of peers Indonesia, Malaysia won 1-0 Mohd network. Zaquan Adha Abd. Razak.
At the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane, Laos, the national squad B-23 was not given a target to win any medals. But K Rajagopal coaching squad was able to bring back the glory of Malaysia in the SEA Games arena when he won the gold medal at the Games. Placed in Group A with Vietnam, Thailand, Timor Leste and Cambodia, Malaysia squad seemed no chance to qualify for the semi-finals, let alone finish Malaysian gold medal drought in football. Starting with a 11-0 victory against East Timor, Malaysia squad then lost to Vietnam 1-3 in the second leg. This defeat was marred by incidents of fights that saw Malaysia Zaquan Adha A. Razak red card by referee from South Korea. This defeat was narrow Malaysia's chances of reaching the semi-finals as the favorite had to beat Thailand in the final match of the Group A. A third group match against Cambodia although a bit shaky confidence in the Malaysian team match with Vietnam by the incident, but the results still match 4-0 in favor of Malaysia. In the last match against Thailand, Malaysia had a surprise when defending champions downed the SEA Games with a 2-1 decision, the winner in Malaysia obtained a last-minute match. Going into the semifinals, the hosts, Laos, Malaysia awaits. Bound by the results of 1-1 until the 80th minute, Malaysia has made two changes to fruition when players scored two goals, leading the team downed host the SEA Games with a 3-1 decision. In the final against Vietnam, Malaysia down as the "underdog", successfully defeated Vietnam 1-0 with an own goal Vietnamese players.
At the Asian Games football tournament Ghuangzhou 2010, Malaysia voted in Group A with Krgyzstan, Japan and host China. In the first match of Group A, Malaysia managed to sink Krgyzstan 2-1 in action at Huadu Stadium. On November 10 about Malaysia lost to Japan 0-2 in the same stadium. During their last match in Group A, Malaysia lost 3-0 to the host where the match is contaminated with 3 a controversial red card to 3 players to the Australian umpire, but still managed to reach the second round. This is a notable achievement of the Malayan tiger team after 32 years of failing to qualify for the second round of the Asian Games. However, during the match between Iran and Malaysia, Malaysia lost dignity by 3-1 goal. However, the FAM does not aim to win the 2010 Asian Games, but consider the tournament as a place to strengthen the Malaysian team before competing in the AFF Suzuki Cup in December.
At the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup, the Malaysian team led by Safiq Rahim lost to Indonesia 5-1 in the first leg and a goalless draw with Thailand in the second leg. Malaysia, however, qualify for the semi-finals after beating Laos 5-1 with goals, along with 'help' in Indonesia who thumped Thailand 2-1 in the Finals of the group A. In the semi-finals, Malaysia beat Vietnam 2-0 on aggregate in the reciprocal match in Kuala Lumpur & Hanoi on the 15th and 18th of December. Malaysia in the final for the second time in 14 years and will meet with Indonesia. At December 26, 2010 in the final 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup first stage of the national team of Malaysia against Indonesia at the National Stadium Bukit Jalil, Malaysia team downed Indonesian team with three goals without reply. Goals were scored by Mohd Safee Sali (2 goals) and Mohd Ashaari Shamsuddin (1 goal). In the second final at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium is hallowed stadium for Team Indonesia, Malaysia were beaten 2-1 with goals but with only three networks before, Malaysia won the AFF Cup for the first time in the history of football country with a 4-2 aggregate . victory was also ending Malaysia won the AFF Suzuki Cup for 14 years. The success is very proud of all Malaysians, and Malayan tiger by itself deserves to be crowned as the king of football 'Southeast Asian region.
Malaysia's best results in friendly match
Malaysia 1-1 England (Year 1970, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Goal: Mokhtar Dahari)
Arsenal 2-0 Malaysia (Year 1970, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Goal: Mokhtar Dahari)
Malaysia 2-4 England (1993, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Goal: Matlan Marjan)
Malaysia 2-3 Manchester United (2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Goal: Amri Yahyah)
Malaysia 1-0 South Korea (Year 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Goal: Safiq Rahim)
Rekod Piala Dunia
Rekod Sukan Olimpik
Rekod Piala Asia
*Jalur berwarna merah menunjukkan pasukan beraksi sebagai tuan rumah.
Rekod Sukan Asia
Rekod Piala Tiger/Piala AFF/Piala AFF Suzuki
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