In the New Straits Times yesterday.
MALAYSIAN Amateur Athletic Union (MAAU) deputy president Karim Ibrahim may have burnt his bridges with the National Sports Council (NSC) after being declared persona non grata by Datuk Zolkples Embong.
Zolkples, the NSC director-general, has had enough of Karim's antics and has written to MAAU president Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim requesting the appointment of another official to act as a go-between with NSC.
Tension between the two well-spoken officials had been simmering for a while and finally boiled over in the last two weeks over the inspection of a newly laid training track at Bukit Jalil.
"I have had it wasting my time dealing with the antics of this particular official. I am the only person capable of reaching a compromise with him and deal with him.
"But I don't have the time to deal with this anymore so I have written to Datuk Seri Shahidan to name another official to liaise with NSC.
"Apparently he was reported as calling for me to resign, so if that is the case it means he does not accept my position as director- general of NSC and therefore cannot deal with NSC," said Zolkples, who never once mentioned Karim by name when speaking to RTM's Sukan @ 1 programme yesterday.
Zolkples and Karim clashed recently after the latter allegedly prevented national athletics chief coach Harun Rasheed, a salaried employee of NSC, from accepting Zolkples' invitation to inspect the relaid training track.
A war of words erupted through various media outlets, leading to an irrevocable breakdown in the relationship between the two officials.
"My main concern is that the athletes don't suffer because of this. Athletes should be given the highest priority in anything we do.
"Without the athletes there would be no sports association or NSC. I am not interested in getting involved in the affairs of sports associations, as long as athletes' training and preparation are not affected," said Zolkples.
Zolkples also questioned MAAU's sincerity where the welfare of athletes is concerned and claiming credit for the efforts of others.
"When (hurdler) Noraseela Khalid was injured, they never once bothered about her. We took care of her injury, recovery and training.
"And when she won silver at the Asian Championships (last year), suddenly they were everywhere claiming they helped her do it," said an exasperated Zolkples.
13 comments:
Bro, what's new in MAAU? Same thing as last time.. always creating controversy.
I left The Sun in 2002, and 8 years on, no different to whoever is covering athletics - spending more time writing the problems afflicting the association rather than athlete's achievement or failure.
The officials are still the same people, so I guess, the old problems would not go away.
Gary Mark
Saudara Rizal,
Pergeseran antara MSN dan KOAM bkn isu baru, namun kali ini wataknya berbeza antara Datuk Zol dan Karim, apapun sebab dan alasan ianya memberi impak negatif kepada keharmonian sukan Malaysia.
Persoalan saya, adakah tiada perbincangan antara KOAM dan MSN sebelum pembinaan track?
Dalam hal ini, mesti ada yang betol dan ada yang salah, sekiranya kedua2 nya betol, mesti tidak timbol isu ini.
Hal ini, boleh dilihat, dari bidang kuasa masing2. Apa tugas MSN dalam pembinaan track dan apa pula peranan KOAM dalam hal yang sama. Dan semestinya kedua2nya mempunyai peranan yang berbeza. Jadi persoalannya, adakah salah satu badan melangkaui bidang kuasa masing2? Ini yang perlu diteliti.
Mungkin juga isu ini timbul dek isu2 lapok antara MSN dan KOAM. Ini cuma sekadar spekulasi. Hehehe..
Wassalam.
salam bro,
Tahniah atas penglibatan yang sangat bagus dalam Kafe Sukan. Back to the topic, dah jadi macam satu budaya pulak bila Persatuan Sukan tak boleh bekerjasama dengan MSN (di bawah Datuk Zol)...saya secara peribadi merasakan ini lebih kepada masalah politik dalaman, mungkin sesetengah pemimpin tak suka bila persatuan mereka di bantu oleh MSN , sebab apa ?
Sebab nampak yang pemimpin ini tidak berapa bagus untuk memimpin dan dari segi kredibiliti dah nampak tak elok especially bila mereka ada political interest yang lain ....
Sekali lagi bagi saya , Pihak Menteri kena turun padang (walaupun dah banyak kali) duduk satu meja bersama pimpinan MSN dan pimpinan Pesatuan Sukan untuk cari penyelesaian SEGERA ....
Saya menonton Kafe Sukan pagi tadi (siaran ulangan ..) dan saya setuju dengan concern panel jemputan tentang masalah dalaman persatuan sukan di negara kita yang tak sepatutnya berlaku tambah-tambah lagi yang menjadi mangsa adalah ahli sukan yang nak bertanding ...contoh BAM sangat jelas ...kekecohan kepimpinan dalam kita nak bertanding Piala Thomas di negara kita ...
saya tak terkejut yang kalau pihak menteri turun padang berbincang 7 hari 7 malam pun benda ni still akan berlaku ..tapi at least we've a good start to improvise the situation ...
RIZAL
bro, i think u should check who behind karim..wondering whether this so called close confidante of Rosmah also involve in this whole thing, just like what she did in BAM.
By the way, would some one please check this so called doctorate received by this SRP dropout.
Zol shaddap la!
Hi rizal
Very sad to see DG of NSC has to take such a drastic action to one sports official. He must recognised this official works as volunteers although at time he behave MAAU as his.
There are no winners in this so call fight. Athletic will suffer further becoz of the antique of two officials who supposed to look after the development of the sport in the country.
If there is a choice both of them should go not just one.
Zol, if you can't handle NSC and this petty issue, you can go back to your old position. DG of NSC is a paid job. So he is paid to develop malaysian sports. instead of wasting time with karim, zol should focus on thinking on behalf of the country on how best to develop sports especially athletics.
bro rizal,
betui....betui...betui...apa yg msn tingkat 4 said
Saudara Rizal,
Sebenarnya dua2 sama spesis,satu gila publisiti yang selalu cakap dia saja yang bagus dan yang satu lagi gila cari publisiti untuk kepentingan politik dia. Nasihatkan diaorang berdua-Jangan takbur dengan kuasa yang Allah SWT bagi pada kita sebab semuanya ini akan diambil balik olehNYA juga.Belajarlah dari ujianNYA untuk melihat kita bersatu dan bukannya berpecah belah.Fikir-fikirlah sendiri.
Datok Zol elok diam je le..x yah nak sambut pantun si Karim ni. KOAM kan KARIM ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT. Lagi layan lagi penat la..Kalau setakat dok harap si Minah Lompat Bergalah tu elok tak yah ada Persatuan/Kesatuan la..
Bernama tulis; As for Zolkples' demand that MAAU appoint a new officer to liaise with NSC.........
Aku tulis; Aku demand that NSC appoint a new DG.
Boleh tak Zol?
Salam Bro.
Tak paham la si Karim ni, pasal trek pun nak gaduh. First of all, bukan duit MAAU pun, trek atas tanah msn, lps tu bising dakwa Zol tak telus dlm pemilihan kontraktor, then ckp iaaf x sanction, sampai dia tak bagi pegawai maau tolong tgk2 kan trek yg dh siap tu yg akan dipakai oleh atlit maau sendiri. Ini keje org sakit hati.
zol pun satu. yg pi layan org mcm karim tu buat apa, tp bagus la kalau shahidan dh sideline karim lepas ni, senang sikit keje semua org kot. dgr crita, atlit pun bengang dgn ex air force guy ni.
So, conclusion utk dua2 pegawai ni ialah: eh karim, maau tu bukan bapak ko punya laa, and zol, ingat sikit ko tu keje gomen, jaga marah sikit dan personaliti org kerajaan yg makan gaji.
p/s: dgr crita karim bengang, tak dpt trek warna biru yg dia nak. tu je sbbnya, haha.
MSN dan KOAM dipimpin olih orang yang egoistik dan palig sedih tidak tahu untuk meningkatkan mutu athlete2 kita. Merka semua mempunyai kepentingan politik dan mengunakan MSM atau KOAM sebagai platform politik. Shahidan guna Karim dan Karim guna dia. Zolkples pentingkan publisiti jadi athlete2 yang merana. Dari 1957 saya telah ikut olahraga dengan penuh minat kerana mereka mempunyai standard yang sangat tinggi hingga mencapai diperingkat Asia tetapi sekarang kita hanya standard Sukan SEA. Negeri2 pun tak mampu nak adakan Sukan AAA sendiri.....apa dah jadi Shahidan?
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