V Sundramoorthy’s contract, which was appointed as a caregiver coach for Lions in May 2016, expires in just over three months later.
The 51-year-old was criticized for bad results in Singapore at the ASEAN Football Confederation (AFF) Suzuki Cup last November, while others beat Sundram as a negative football for their team.
Lions are four ASEAN champions, but are launched in the group stage, managing only one point and one goal in three games.
However, the Singapore Football Association (FAS) Interim Committee Vice Chairman Chen Bingde that Sundram is still leading the Lions club to participate in the Asian Cup qualifier.
Singapore on March 28 began their group E campaign to Bahrain – with two other teams in Turkmenistan and Taiwan in the group – and Tan said that Sundram’s future should be resolved before the team flew to Bahrain’s capital Manama.
“Every coach has his supporters and critics, but in my book, Sundram has a good head on his shoulder and he should be shot to guide us into Asia, but” he said in his new account. , Which is my point of view, the FAS Interim Committee must make a decision.
“We should be clear before the start of the game in his state.
The honest dialogue with former Singapore International convinced Tan that Sundram had what he needed.
He said: “I talk to Sundram, I do not think he will mind, I think football high speed style, I will improve our football level.
“He told me:” If you want to, then you have the wrong coach, I have to learn opponents, and I play the players, I organize the team to optimize the advantages, try to reduce their weaknesses, win the game will not be locked in playing a Style.
“Sundram has a practical practice, he has a view, he defends his point of view, I respect him.
Tan is a supporter of high intensity, passing and moving football, which is the predecessor of Sundram, Bernd Stange’s philosophy, although he still believes that this is the direction that young football must take, he admitted that maybe Sundram’s practical method is not a bad of.
He thought that the experiment had failed, because the Singapore club-level players did not play his “tiki-taka” football at the national team level.
He also pointed out that S.League club players less than the strength of the European team, it can not correctly perform high-intensity game.
In addition to 2-1 in 2013 than Syria and 0-0 draw with Japan, Stig saw a little success. His lions will start in the 2014 Suzuki Cup group stage.
Stanker left a record of 15 wins, four draws and 16 losses, and most of the victories struck on the likes of Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.
Tan stressed that there was no quick fix to the situation of national coaches – like several other issues in sport.
He said: “Soccer is a too complicated question to solve one thing, no silver bullet, no one lever, you can pull, it will change things – the new committee needs a solid idea.
shamiro@sph.com.sg
This article was first published on Feb 15, 2017.
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