Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Royal Family vs Sports

When comes to leadership in sports, we always favored either a Corporate Personnel or Royal Family. But my concern is, why do we need such person for the sports association. A sports leader is someone whom knows the sports, plays the sports and of course passionate abt the particular sports. In addition to it, some normal leadership quality i.e listening skills, delegation, mentoring, motivator, organiser etc.

We have seen in hockey, Sultan Azlan Shah was the President of Malaysian Hockey Federation followed by his son, Raja Nazrin. Moving to football. We have and STILL HAVE Sultan Ahmad Shah. His son once Vice President of FAM, now the President of MHF.

The latest in the role is Tunku Mahkota of Johor Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim has agreed to contest the post of Malaysian Athletic Union (MAU) president.

Why can't we have the real sports man to lead the association like PS Nathan (Bowling), Mjr Rtd Maniam (squash), Punch Gunalan (Badminton) and Kali Kavandan (Hockey) and M.Jegathesan (Athletics).




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