Two days ago, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak admitted that even though Malaysia has excellent sports facilities, but most athletes still lack the mentality and attitude to excel into sport greats like Vijay Singh. Quote:

"It’s fortunate that Vijay Singh was not granted the PR status, otherwise he would not have become the world’s number one golfer. That’s the truth."

If I’m not mistaken, this would be the first time admission that officially heard from a senior level politician like Datuk Seri Najib regarding the wrong mentality and bad attitude of Malaysia athletes.

The star created a poll for its readers to cast their vote on this issue on Friday. Today only I blog about this as I want to see how people respond to Datuk Seri Najib. More than half in favour of him and I’m one of them too.

I remembered the thrill of watching Thomas Cup while I was small, shouting for "Malaysia Malaysia Malaysia" when the service is on Malaysia side, imitated my father voice of support though I wasn’t sure what is it about besides only knowing it’s a badminton competition.

Throughtout the years, I still watch Thomas Cup and support Malaysia, of course!

But, it’s all about disappointment.

Lacksture performances by some players really pure hot cold water onto me. And I realised that, athletes nowadays not exactly the players that fought for country that we saw back then.
It’s all about the benefits, rewards and prizes that matters. Loyalty next.

Now, Datuk Seri Najib already spotted and confessed the wrong mentality and attitude of certain athletes who are still representing the country. Either for the sake of sports development in Malaysia or to guarantee Malaysia’s goals in the next Olympic Games, I hope government, sports’ bodies, NGOs, public and of course athletes will work together to make sure Negaraku would be heard all over the world, again and again.

I feel proud listening to it. Do you?

Let’s make this a dream come true, a reality.

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