Football: Singapore Lions disbanded (Sandi)

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The recent failed attempts by the Lions, our national football team, to qualify for the last 16 of the Asian Cup and to advance beyond the group stage of the recent Suzuki Cup prompted  the president of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), Zainudin Nordin to sack all the players in the national team. There have been talks about the players are being complacent with their comfortable salaries and I think there is some basis of truth because some people did not find the news to be shocking or surprising.
But to sack all the players, i have to agree that this is abit too harsh. Some players definitely do not deserve this treatment as they proved to be hardworking on the pitch like Shi Jiayi and Daniel Bennett. Fans have questioned the decision whether to be a knee-jerk reaction because in the recent years, when the performance is equally bad, the Football Association of Singapore did not make any drastic change.
Most people felt that the coaching staff are also to be blamed for the decline in the standard of our national team because they feel that the situation has become like this partially is because of a lack in a good and proper managment but I do not think so as coach Raddy has proven to himself when a year after  he became the head-coach, our national team won the ASEAN football championship and also in 2007.
After the FAS has dropped the bomb, people are now starting to explore other alternatives that can replace or een do better than the current team. One of the alternatives is to introduce fresh new young talents into squad from the youth olympic squad or the under-23 squad. However, I do not think that the guys from these squads are experienced enough or well-equipped enough to handle matches that are more tense cause afterall, the league that they are playing is going to be so much different.
Another alternatives is to have a total local talents domination of the national team which means that everything from the management to the players, all are local. I personally would prefer a management from overseas because of the experience they have abroad. Overseas management would have definitely been exposed to so much things that locals would not have. I would not mind having an all-local players team cause it would better create a bond between the fans and the team but having a few foreign players who are PR would not hurt as well as long as they are bringing in the results.
In conclusion, to disband the whole national team was abit too harsh and that in order for a true improvement in the standard of our football, everyone, including the national team and the coaching staff have to work hard on it with the support of the whole nation.