Why Is Singapore Bad At Football?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Thought it would be interesting to explore the reasons behind Singapore's recent underwhelming performance in football. The Singapore team gave their best everytime they step onto the pitch. It's not the fault of one individual or even one organisation. I think it's a problem entrenched deep within the fabric of our society itself.
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Good effort, bro, to bring awareness to the topic. However, I feel that everything said was too superficial. I believe a lot of people can talk with you about SG football for as long as you want, but first a few things:
1) the rat race is everywhere. We just have to cope.
2) we were never good at football in the first place.
3) even the best Asian aren’t close to being the best in the world. Just look at the representation in UCL and European Big 5 leagues.
4) compare us with small European countries aren’t relevant because their base level and our base level is different. Like we don’t have an equivalent of Belgium’s Anderlecht here.
5) throwing money can bring in hype but is not a long term solution. Even the Chinese are beginning to stop doing that.
6) moving overseas is the way to seek higher level training and match play to improve. I’m fine with players going overseas, just that they shouldn’t settle for a weaker league for the sake of only money, especially key players in the NT.
I more incline to seeing ourselves taking a different approach, whereby, yes result of the NT still matters, but we build for everyone, not just football fans, that is not entirely tied to the result on the pitch. For one I hope to see more from Tampines Rovers, which can set an example. Nice new stadium in a compact town, Tampines Rovers can be more relevant to the Tampines people with various engagement activities and bring in different people to identify themselves with the club, whether they like football or not. From there we move to talk about the rest, like youth development and result.
Thanks for maintaining your attention on my long reply. By the way, I saw your video on Bolasepako, a shout out to Pohui as well here. Again a nice effort, but things aren’t that simple as it seems to be.
Hey Frankie, thanks for commenting. You are right this issue is not a simple one. I planned to make a video for less than 10 mins so I can't really go into too much detail. I like your point about tampines. I think community engagement and having the community feel that they have a stake in the team's performance and a sense of belonging to the club will really help. And I really like their new stadium and facilities.
4) Yes I agree with you. Belgium was just an example of how a nation can improve their football by rethinking their youth system.
3) Football is very much a physical game and I think it suits the europeans with their bigger stature. Although south america has been really successful despite their relatively smaller frame. I might look into this and make a video on it.
2) We were never good by world standards but were at least decent in SEA but now we are really not doing too well.
Again thanks for sharing your thoughts. Hopefully the powers that be take steps in the right direction. Cheers bro.
never seen such a detailed analysis on singapore football!
"Bring immigration citizens"
17 year old Malay comes in
MINDEF: yeah sorry kid but you gotta go to ns
Kid: wtf didnt you say-
MINDEF: nahhh
Wkwkwk hmm
Back then years ago we were the better team when players like Precious, Agu Casmir, Shi Jiayi, John Wilkinson, Fahrudin Mustaphic helped to lift the trophies in several occasions but now everythings changed. I felt quite disappointed seeing them exited out of the aff suzuki early and you are right its not just one individual's but the whole football team gotta wake up their ideas. Even in friendly matches they can't even beat the middle eastern country. I believe that one day the football team will changed again and hope to winning more trophies in the future. Nice video btw bro 👍
This just makes me sad😢
When I thought we were going to get out of the group after beating Indonesia.
Great effort bro.
Interesting analysis. I was looking at the AFC U-16 Championship qualifiers and noticed that Singapore got beaten quite heavily in all their matches. Singapore needs to put more emphasis on developing coaches at youth level first, followed by turning their professional clubs into more sustainable entities. It is unrealistic for Singapore Premier League clubs to have large fan bases unlike their neighbouring countries, purely because it is such a cosmopolitan place. They need to invest more into developing academy football, increase competitive academy matches and ease players into the first team. This will ultimately expand their talent pool and increase the frequency of more high calibre individuals in the national team.
Fadzil - appreciate your efforts in putting up this video and more importantly, your desire to seek out answers to this question. It is unfortunate that sports has gone beyond just passion where monetary rewards speaks louder than the intrinsic form. Those days as a young boy, I watched the Lions, comprising of Dollah Kassim, Rajagopal, Quah Kim Song and many more; it is racial harmony in action. The national team was helmed by Uncle Choo, enduring and passionate despite being in wheel-chair. The spirit was great and that was the identity which characterised the national team. Life today has become far more complicated and that has intertwined with one's passion, priorities and commitments. In the past, Singapore may not be in the World Cup or other more prestigious platforms, but their testimony in domestic competitions was a household frenzy, in which the common folks could identify and be proud of. We have not allowed our dreams to falter in pursuit of undue expectations, but held our heads up to the bigger picture in fostering a Singapore identity.
Lies again? Never Study
Great job man now just need the Gov to see this
Haha hopefully they do
The issue of local football is a very broad topic. So broad, I believe the right person can write a whole book about it. There are many issues that need solving. FAS (which is being solved slowly but surely by elections), SPORTSG funding, lack of support from the masses, lack of sponsorship from local companies, etc. They all simply cannot be addressed in a 9 minute video. However, this video does a good job in highlighting some of those bigger issues. 👍
thanks for making this video bro.
What you said is just small part of the reasons. When you mentioned about Singapore football during the old days, our national teams is full of passion and combination in every single match. So even when Singapore team has lost that match, our supporters will still behind the team and praised for them. During those years, our players have nothing in return for their sacrificing but the bright and respect from the nation. So If our football standard was worst, it was not just the reason of the income, the most important thing is the players them. Besides, We need a couch that have the foresight of choosing a player. This is my personal views.
hker in europe, income & social r very vital , if u can find out another way better , being a professional football player shd'nt be no.1 option for many ppl. Social norm is another problem that football player has comparative lower social status
For those who made it into the national team it's still pretty good both in terms of pay and status but it will only last for so long
Singapore football is strict due to the economy and work & pay life. Also nowadays cannot train/play soccer anywhere cause everything must pay
Nice job. I think there's a lot of good in bringing in foreign super talent like China but it does also take away potential slots for homegrown players, but when combined with youth development, should end up becoming a super combo of success.
Chinese :parents dont allow them to play cus scared of injury
Malay: only few hundred thousand that always play football
Indian : too less no info
Your Malay Singapore players can play for Malaysia national team if they want their career will success.
Every parents in Singapore are afraid when their child wants to be a footballer as a career
Really good clip keep do it broke.
We need promising promo on football. That we didn't have for a very long time. I mean wrangler, milo and many other brand name use to strongly promo on local football by using local footballers as their ambassador
We have a lot of young talents under 13 right now and if they continued they will win!
Yup i am 13 and i wanna be a footballer
@@isaackim9456 hey im 15 yrs old and live in germany im training in a country well known to football when i come back to SG lets do it together :D
Good Analysis. I miss the Good Old days : The Malaysian Cup Era....
Miss those veterans : ABBAS SAAD, FANDI AHMAD, MALEK AWAB, NAZRI NASIR, DAVID LEE, V.SUNDRAMOORTHY, K.KANNAN
@@dragonboy181 but our hockey team is ok ... among the strongest in asean, just a bit lower than malaysia
dw ill bring those days back :) mark my words
They Always Play the Long Ball -.-
Great analysis bro! I would just like to add a few more points:
In order to be good at a big sport like football for a nation,
1) citizens must have passion in it, especially the young kids.
2) must have whole country's full support, e.g.: many free and good quality football fields, parents' and schools' support and recognition for football.
3) must have good quality and trained coaches, especially for kids' coaches.
4) And the most importance is to establish systematic youth leagues according to different age categories and different skill levels. e.g.: pro-club league, Pri and Sec school league, etc.
Take Japan as an example, Asian country should be able to play great football as well. Japan have spent almost 30 over years to achieve everything mentioned above. We Singapore really have a long way to go...
I believe there are good footballers out there. Is just that Singapore chooses image over talent.
Correct me if I’m wrong, they don’t allow someone that have tattoo that is visible to the public eyes to be in the singapore team.
The main reason why sg sucks in soccer is because of our ns Therefore we have lesser training who agrees like this post
I agree but I think NS is also necessary to protect our nation so we have to balance both.
@@doctorfadzil i wouldnt say protect the nation lah but if they just give these youths a chance to play overseas in order to improve, sg will get more sponsors from other countries which they will look up to us. Therefore lesser enemies. I dont like this "protect the nation" quote.
Fadzil Kamarudin Most millennials of SG want to leave sg and dont even have a sense of belonging in this shit country lol
The main reason is that talented potential youth pursue their studies career and only plays Football as a hobby
football is more like a hobby I guess. I don't feel any better that singapore will get any youths who are strong in football passion maybe just all talk only
Make football great in sigapure ✌🇸🇬,⚽️❤
ICELAND has a much smaller population than Singapore.Other Factors keep Singapore Football at a low level. Would it not be a good idea to start a Super League in Cooperation with Hong Kong and some other small Nation(s).
1. join the Malaysian League......the standards are there......will do good for the national team in the long run
2. Allow Extremely talented players (Joseph Schooling Level) to defer NS till the age of 30.
If anyone is interested in playing the Classic Singapore team and the current national teams in PES2021, search PES2021 Singapore and you can see a video that comes with the download link.
I cant see the download link
Singapore FAS need to change entire staff. Corruption is on going in there.
Aik Singapore bukan ke negara bebas korup???🤭
You are corrupted. FAS pump so much taxpayers money into infrastructure, yet same results
Any young Singaporean inspired footballer should never look into only be a pro in S.League. They should aim high to play in J.league or even in Europe. If they have the passion, they should work very hard towards that goal. If not, yes, stick to aiming for a safe job.
Are there ways to retrieve pls footages of our team during the mid 70s playing in Malaysia Cup?
Iceland simply can't be compared with Singapore. They have a strong local football culture and support, we don't.
You should do a new video about this topic
In the first place, where are the spectators? No spectators > no revenue for clubs > no reason for sponsorships > low income for players.
Everything is about money making..
To most SG parents, Education > sports. More effort and self belief is needed to bring up the sports culture here.
The Football Body should be brave to scout around outside the league. Maybe can look at pool of players from school tournament, weekend & amateur football, RCs & playgro
wow 25 sec in the last surviving moving pictures of Ashard,Dollah and Kim Song. Ridiculous..
Our Singapore used to be good last time but right now not really
Singapore isn't bad, but there are many other better national teams in Asia and the catchment area in a City-State is limited.
If you realize there is no youth competition anymore... Like street soccer, sentosa 7 a side or any sports competition..... This competition bring in alot of opportunity to develop youth....
Its cause theres less defence and more attackers
After 3 years of this video. I will say this.
Japan is a good example from the recent 2022 World Cup. They are a good example of being small like us but their desire and passion is crazy. Singapore is getting better but at a very very slow rate. I believe if they learn from Japan!
Our football league must have relegation and promotion bro. If we still carry on like this, there's no chance for our Nation League Division One no way to prove themselves. SPL clubs now no fear of relegation so they play to get the salary only.
boy's home player can play football very well
We have no footballing culture. Our league is rubbish. You have 2 foreign teams, 2 clubs representing an organisation and 1 club that is actually a Singapore youth team. The fans don't feel any belonging. Unless we revamp our football structure, nothing will change.
Just play in malaysia super league i heard that malaysia will invite foreign club from brunei and sg...tapi belum tentu sg menang dulu pun tak beberapa menyegat
Great video essay on the sorry state of our football. Any more in the pipeline? How a series covering our own SPL? I barely know who're playing nowadays.
Great video bro. Keep it up. As a die hard football fan, I agree with what you said in this video. But to add on to it, I believe that Singapore players are overrated. Look at the S-League. Is there anything to play for in the 1st place? Even if they ended up last in the table, will they even bother? There is no relegation system. I been to few S League games last season and the fans turnout was really poor. I see for myself that I came to a conclusion that 60% of the attendance came because they bet on the games, not because of their passion and support. If you want to look at the right perspective on SG Football, you can watch Andy Penders's vlog. He said what was supposed to be said about Singapore's football. Thank you.
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bruh, its the “same population as bedok” for me HAHAHAHAHA bruh i lost it
We should play in Malaysia Cup
don't.. go to indonesia.. their league will be better league in 5 years
Singapore isn't bad now they are getting better and hopefully more fans can come to support
HAHAHAH DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH
@@chimichangaaalager7141 we literally beat yemen and palestine and drew with Jordan fucking 🤡
@@aAaa-ze6qh kalah 4-0🤭🤭🤭
@@user-yx5jf7nt9i pale bapak kau
it's all about focus and willing to do something.. the iceland can go to world cup because the football body are willing to do something right.. if there's no will, all these analysis will be useless..
The problem is, there’s plenty of young talent out there, why else do we have NSG, it’s just that they are immediately turned away by the lack of pay, support and/or recognition that they ought to deserve. For example, I joined primary school in 2014. That year, our junior football division came champions in south zone and seniors in 4th. It was our first time that both have made it into the top 4. I didn’t know till 2019. I have 2 friends in secondary school who have gotten requests to join the U-16 National Team, but both rejected for the same reasons; the usual parents waterfall. I think Joseph Schooling’s mum was right. We don’t have enough competitions that are required to build competitiveness. Our forefathers were focused on building the nation, but now that’s done and we can look to other stuff, the problem is there are still some that cling on to the hope that there is still something left to do. We need more people like my sec sch principal. He said if the c, b or a div makes semis/finals he would let the school watch it.
Our talent pool is too small. There are many very good players in the youth level
Please lah, what is the population in Senegal and Ivory coast. They makes name for themselves in soccer.
Cuz Singapore always focus more on academics and anybody trying out a new alternative route to that gets shunned.The fans turnout in stadiums hosting the S-league is pathetic.
Then UK and US not focused on academics meh? Top schools in the world
If Messi or Ronaldo came to S League I will watch their every game
@@fightingforce8498 ikr they’re so shit
@Silvestre let the hate out of u. I ain’t even singaporean. I just have a friend who plays football in Singapore league.
A great summary. However, as an outsider that loves Singapore dearly, there are a few things that are hugely obvious that you missed. There seems little to no unity in the team. ie Chinese Singaporean, Indian Singaporean and Malay Singaporean are often referred to, oh and foreigner (ie a naturalized player like Bennett and Duric etc). There is only and should only ever be ONE Singaporean, regardless of background. If you wear the shirt, play for the country, then you are one thing, SINGAPOREAN.
The next is the problem that Chinese Singaporean are the largest population to be under represented in the team (I believe). In order to be able to select from the best, all need to be represented.
Finally, Singapore, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE realize that the PL, La Liga and Bundesliga dont care about you! Stop with your fascination of European Leagues that dont care about you and never will. Support your local trams, no matter how bad. Work together to fix the problems. You can arrange a world class F1, you should be able to run an above average league structure... which means moving out the old dead wood and bringing in people that know what they are doing.
singapore football not fun watch tho
We can play the current England national team since our standards are more or less the same.
5:49 Let's not forget Uruguay, a size of 3 million population, yet won 2 World Cups
never open their eyes big big
I am going for loan from woodlands to yishun for 1k.
Neh
bro, ask you ah, in Singapore ah, how come all the footballers are malays?
Hi David! I think there might be a few reasons. In the past there was a fair bit of chinese players for eg quah kim song, goh tat chuan, lionel lewis. Now I can only think of gabriel quak. I think it has to do with a difference in culture and mentality, not skill. In general, the chinese are more career orientated compared to the malays and would pursue carrers that are more financially stable.
@@doctorfadzil so are you saying that the malays are not capable of pursuing careers that are more financially stable?
to be honest there not much talent in chinese player they are good at basketball.
@@adi1991as true. end of the day, different people different strengths
Because malay like to play football. Simple
Singapore team can only watch world cup at home. I going to buy Italy to win this coming euro title.
Lol u might wanna delete this video now cuz we won Yemen and Palestine and barely lost against qatar
😂😂😂
And now got trashed by Palestine 4-0 🤣🤣🤣
Singapore have great football talents which I'm very certain only with open trials conducted by neutrals professional coaches from Europe is the first step to go 2034 WC I believe. InshaAllah
Singapore players cannot score, cannot defend. It's a waste of time supporting them. Honestly, why waste my time and money to make myself sad and disappointed. In England, how many times you see those professional players chasing after the ball that went out of play and picking it up. In our S League, I only see our local players shouting at the ball boys for the ball.
Singapore football is improving we beat plastine and our ranking are improving
Iron4ian plays wowww you beat palestine amazing...
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂 singapore sports is a joke 💀💀💀
our national soccer is bad ???
how about hockey ... are we better now ? can we be the champ in asean at least ?
To be honest to you Singaporean always choose rich people to be selected being Singaporean players while the poor one they play better than those rich people, I'm not saying that they are wrong but they had to choose base on their performance not following their ego suka² pick rich people instead of poor people. What I mean was about poor people have more skills than rich people tbh
The only ASEAN country that is doing better in soccer is Thailand (not even at world class std), the others sama sama.
Philippines keep going forward since aff 2010
@@apostolosvelios not really our country phil is not really improving if only the PFF gets its shit together in introducing local clubs and then giving them coverage then yes we may be able to attract kids playing football.
Why is Singapore bad at Football?
ok I m singaporean and let’s just say I don’t think the team trains a lot but like actually I think we suck against the Argentinian’s lol
As a Malaysians. I think, you all just stop to do anything because Singapore can't beat all Asean country football quality forever.
Because Singapore are small country.
I think...Singapore can be acedemy for Malaysia national team. Haha.
So, we can pick 2 or 3 of Singapore players to change their status to Malaysia.
If their play for Malaysia, their career will be success.
If play for Singapore, their career are nothing.🤷♂️
.....wdym
I think singapure have the money and the population to be good at football.
Sinapore 985 goals wins get trouphy
3-1, 3-1, 0-0, 7-0 , pathetic results in sea games 2023 prove that fas is useless, will never blame the player since I know they were clueless especially the useless coach Philip did even any backup plan either
I wanna give recommended as Malaysian, to Malay Singapore players to change their status from Singapore to Malaysia, and play for Malaysia national team. Hahaha.
You will success if you play for Malaysia.
Play for Singapore, are nothing.🤷♂️
No.
@@lemon2524 yes. Malaysia are more big country than Singapore. Singapore is small country. Singapore can't consistent as great country at football in future. It's because many southeast asean big country like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam are going too...more develop. So, Singapore will be nothing. Singapore player only can success if they play for Malaysia national team. Or...Singapore back to Malaysia league. But Malaysia also know..Singapore will become great if they join Malaysia league. So, Malaysia do not allow Singapore team to play in Malaysia league again. Ahahaha
@@pesmobilemalaysia8097 That's your assumption we are still doing well.
@@lemon2524 ya. But u can't imagine what happen in future. Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam are starting to develop to become more great. Singapore try hard....but u know, it's so hard to Singapore. It's because Singapore is small country. Singapore do not have much talent as others country. Singapore must using a same players for many years...to be great. That's all.
@@lemon2524 singapore sucks very weak and noob from indonesia
Singapore is not bad at football. Singapore is 4 times south east asia champion (aff).
Singapura mengakui tapi bukan diakui🤭🤭🤭
If Singaporeans bad at football, I remember my own country, Indonesia, which is worse at football he he
The S league is a joke yet no one has come with any idea to improve it. If Singapore pools are not there to take bets from s league, it will only have 300 fans or less.cos the gamblers come and watch the game. If they make changes like Toa Payoh FC bedok FC or chai chee FC then the residents will come and support the team cos it their constituency. I can vomit blood to see s league team play now they can't even make a simple pass. Conclusion : our soccer in Singapore is dead
no ... our soccer team is still better than our causeway neighbour
because no one pays them
disrespectful bro
Just study play Football for casual
We are small country
5 milion citizens
Croatia 4 mil
Iceland 300k
Not a single player naturalized in the team of France champion of the world in 98.
Educate yourself before made a video
No wonder not many Chinese in sg soccer team cause no money
There's Gabriel quak
Will win world cup in 100 years time
Not only bad but nonsense...
Shut up la, hobby , hobby ALL
Because we vote for the wrong party....
Stop bringing that dead horse of small nations can qualify why Singapore cannot? Iceland is a powerful nordic race!.SE Asian don't have the correct sporting DNA.Just the ratio of quick twitch muscles is all wrong!.
Yeah Singapore is Bad in Football But We Won 4 Times AFF Suzuki Cup....Are U Malaysian?? Malaysian won just one? So Stop Talking Rubbish!!
The problem with Singapore football is...
1=selfish player,no teams work.
2=get the ball like blur sotong doesn't know where to pass.
3=own position to play also don't know.
The players in the youth need to be drilled and developed very well. It takes a generation to change it
Yes, all rounded training needed.
because chinese majority in singapore. If singapore majority malay maybe singapore will be strong 💪.
What has that got to do with race?
😂
Too many malays...