Who Should Responsible

BAM has ordered coaches to give full reports for their recent failure to deliver at Hyderabad World Badminton Championship! So who should take full responsible for this failure? Is the player not up to standard? Is the coaches not good enough?

For me all the failure started within BAM itself. They first allow all the players too much power over the rules. Secondly the incentives given to all the players are way too good for them to feel the pressure of maintaining their standard. Thirdly they always talk big prior to big tournament and all the players don't have the correct mindset to represent the country!

The above 3 reasons itself is enough to destroy all the hardwork put in by all the coaches. I can say we, Malaysia has the best coaches among all the badminton powerhouse, and yet we always fail to deliver. There are a limitation a coach can do to their players, and at the end it all depends on the players themselve to deliver what hardwork put into during training.

Look at Lee Chong Wei, he blamed the BAM coaching staff of not good enough, so opted to train away from BAM. How can a player get to choose his own training coach, venue and others. If this is Indonesia, or China, or even Denmark, I'm sure Lee Chong Wei will be a long gone story! No one is bigger than the organisation itself. Lee Chong Wei thinks World No. 1 is bigger than BAM!

Secondly, Lee Chong Wei's coach, Misbun Sidek is fighting to gain control of BAM coaching staff. If he thinks he can deliver and produce some world class player, why don't he joins in BAM and started the discovery of new young talent with the full backing of BAM resources? This is the thing borders me because my feeling is that he is trying to overpower BAM over player selection! So I will never respect Lee or Misbun for this aspect.

Then comes to BAM, their leadership is a big problem because they always being overpowered by outsiders. Also they never really look into the actual problem, and coaches is always the one getting the boot for failure. They always treated world ranking more important than actual result.

For this I am respecting the Chinese players because they don't bother about world ranking, because if you are good enough, you can win anything from anywhere! Malaysian players just can't do that because they will only win by avoiding strong oponents along the path. Is that how world No. 1 behaved?

So no matter what BAM and government do to help these players, their attitude is the main problem and should be solved before anything! Otherwise it's just a waste of time!