Privatising the Malaysian Soccer League (M-League) is not necessarily the best solution to lift Malaysian football out of the doldrums, said Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek, as quoted by BERNAMA.
He said it would take time and much effort to raise the standard of Malaysian football.
“There are no short cuts to achieve our objective to be a leading footballing nation. We have to find a formula that can produce the best results,” he told reporters after flagging participants of the 2009 Ekiden International Run here Sunday (Putrajaya, 4 October 2009).
He was commenting on calls by the FA of Malaysia for the M-League to be privatised to lift the sport in the country.
Malaysia, once a football powerhouse in the region with archrivals being South Korea, now even have difficulty competing against newcomers to the sport like Vietnam.
