Over the recent years, Selangor has shown a keen interest and growth in floorball. The sport is slowly gaining recognition from students and working adults. In fact, they initiated the Selangor Floorball League sometime last year. Another step taken to further enhance the sport in Selangor.
The Selangor Floorball League saw 5 teams participating with a hunger to win. Although the playing field is not as levelled out as it should be, for now, it was a good start for all teams to get the momentum going.
Below is BBF's review on the league.
The Selangor Floorball League saw 5 teams participating with a hunger to win. Although the playing field is not as levelled out as it should be, for now, it was a good start for all teams to get the momentum going.
Below is BBF's review on the league.
Teams
Gang Bintang
KLIUC Griffins
KLIUC Hornets
Salibandy! Co.
Subang Rascals
Format
- Five teams
- Round robin league format
- Two-legged
- Three periods of 20 minutes.
Fixtures & Results
| 24 Oct 2009 | ||||
| G1 | Salibandy! Co. | 4 | 4 | KLIUC Hornets |
| G2 | Subang Rascals | 13 | 3 | KLIUC Griffins |
| G3 | Gang Bintang | 16 | 0 | Salibandy! Co. |
| 31 Oct 2009 | ||||
| G4 | KLIUC Hornets | 2 | 14 | Subang Rascals |
| G5 | KLIUC Griffins | 3 | 13 | Gang Bintang |
| G6 | Salibandy! Co. | 3 | 13 | Subang Rascals |
| 7 Nov 2009 | ||||
| G7 | KLIUC Hornets | 1 | 5 | KLIUC Griffins |
| G8 | Gang Bintang | 7 | 3 | Subang Rascals |
| G9 | Salibandy! Co. | 3 | 2 | KLIUC Griffins |
| 14 Nov 2009 | ||||
| G10 | Subang Rascals | 18 | 3 | Salibandy! Co. |
| G11 | KLIUC Hornets | 2 | 10 | Gang Bintang |
| G12 | KLIUC Griffins | 1 | 6 | Subang Rascals |
| 28 Nov 2009 | ||||
| G13 | KLIUC Griffins | 3 | 6 | Salibandy! Co. |
| G14 | Subang Rascals | 14 | 1 | KLIUC Hornets |
| G15 | Gang Bintang | 4 | 2 | KLIUC Griffins |
| 5 Dec 2009 | ||||
| G16 | Gang Bintang | 11 | 1 | KLIUC Hornets |
| G17 | Salibandy! Co. | 4 | 18 | Gang Bintang |
| G18 | KLIUC Griffins | 1 | 3 | KLIUC Hornets |
| 12 Dec 2009 | ||||
| G19 | KLIUC Hornets | 1 | 7 | Salibandy! Co. |
| G20 | Gang Bintang | 10 | 3 | Subang Rascals |
Final Standings
| PLC | TEAMS | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PTS |
| 1 | Gang Bintang | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 18 | 71 | 16 |
| 2 | Subang Rascals | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 84 | 30 | 54 | 12 |
| 3 | Salibandy! Co. | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 30 | 75 | -45 | 7 |
| 4 | KLIUC Hornets | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 63 | -48 | 3 |
| 5 | KLIUC Griffins | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 20 | 49 | -29 | 2 |
Team Reviews
Gang Bintang
Champions
Gang Bintang demonstrated the literal meaning of trashing. The winning machine, boasted with national stars like, Sjaiful, Khalid & Iliyaz together with Singaporean imports, Filip & gang cruised towards the summit of Selangor Floorball League with relative ease, destroying whatever that were on their path.
Subang Rascals
1st Runners-up
A team led by Malaysia's team manager, Suresh along with Dennis, the expatriates and Sasi , aimed for the title as well. Like their rival, they marched on clearing all obstacles without showing any sort of sympathy on court, but twice they faced the might Gang Bintang, twice they crumbled. The party crashers failed to put a halt to Gang Bintang and in the end had to settle for second.
Salibandy! Co.
3rd Placing
Losing key players is definitely not a good start, but still, with experience and ability of their players at disposal, Salibandy enjoyed a firm 3rd place position. They did it in the end, but not after a few hiccups here and there. They started off with a shaky last grasp draw with Hornets and then, like everyone else, got trashed by the top 2 teams before picking up their momentum against Griffins and Hornets, finishing 3rd.
KLIUC Hornets
4th Placing
Like Griffins, Hornets is the new kid on the block. Supposedly, the slightly weaker of the two but somehow managed to spring up a few surprises along the way. What better way than to kick-off the first match of the league with a stunning draw against the much more established Salibandy and ending it at a high against their brothers, Griffins, marshalled by their "Creator", Hadfiz. Beginner's luck or the beginner's fearlessness?
KLIUC Griffins
5th Placing
Like Hornets, Griffins is also a freshy in the floorball scene but the not so lucky one. All defeats and only a sole victory over Hornets pretty much says it all. The team led by Hadfiz and a few other senior players failed to make their experience count against other teams. Losing against Hornets was definitely rubbing salt into the wound.
Gang Bintang
Champions
Gang Bintang demonstrated the literal meaning of trashing. The winning machine, boasted with national stars like, Sjaiful, Khalid & Iliyaz together with Singaporean imports, Filip & gang cruised towards the summit of Selangor Floorball League with relative ease, destroying whatever that were on their path.
Subang Rascals
1st Runners-up
A team led by Malaysia's team manager, Suresh along with Dennis, the expatriates and Sasi , aimed for the title as well. Like their rival, they marched on clearing all obstacles without showing any sort of sympathy on court, but twice they faced the might Gang Bintang, twice they crumbled. The party crashers failed to put a halt to Gang Bintang and in the end had to settle for second.
Salibandy! Co.
3rd Placing
Losing key players is definitely not a good start, but still, with experience and ability of their players at disposal, Salibandy enjoyed a firm 3rd place position. They did it in the end, but not after a few hiccups here and there. They started off with a shaky last grasp draw with Hornets and then, like everyone else, got trashed by the top 2 teams before picking up their momentum against Griffins and Hornets, finishing 3rd.
KLIUC Hornets
4th Placing
Like Griffins, Hornets is the new kid on the block. Supposedly, the slightly weaker of the two but somehow managed to spring up a few surprises along the way. What better way than to kick-off the first match of the league with a stunning draw against the much more established Salibandy and ending it at a high against their brothers, Griffins, marshalled by their "Creator", Hadfiz. Beginner's luck or the beginner's fearlessness?
KLIUC Griffins
5th Placing
Like Hornets, Griffins is also a freshy in the floorball scene but the not so lucky one. All defeats and only a sole victory over Hornets pretty much says it all. The team led by Hadfiz and a few other senior players failed to make their experience count against other teams. Losing against Hornets was definitely rubbing salt into the wound.
SFL was a success. It is a small step but a significant one nonetheless. With the growth of floorball gradually sipping into the Selangor region, SFL would serve as a platform for people to see, hear and try out the sport. This league would also be essential to the growth of players' and clubs in Selangor. Floorball is without a doubt growing in Malaysia. For this reason as well, we want to thank Hadfiz, who has helped pioneered the school team and made the commitment into sending 2 teams for the league. Hopefully, others would follow suit to see that the sport would blossom from here on.
BBF has also managed to get in touch with the Malaysia team manager, who also played for team Subang Rascals in the league for a quick chat regarding SFL and floorball in Selangor.
Borak-Borak Floorball (BBF) interview with Mr. Suresh:
BBF has also managed to get in touch with the Malaysia team manager, who also played for team Subang Rascals in the league for a quick chat regarding SFL and floorball in Selangor.
Borak-Borak Floorball (BBF) interview with Mr. Suresh:
BBF: Selangor Floorball League has just ended. What do you think the league helped achieved in regards to the development of the sport in the state of Selangor? Can you share some of the objectives/goals of the SFL in the long-haul?
Mr. Suresh: We are actually moving towards formalizing all tournaments in Selangor now. It started with the SFL and it went on well. We manage to conduct the games and the entire event formally and we have records of all games. Similarly the next events will be formal events.
Next step is to bring together all floorball state associations together under one and same system. Which means we will co-ordinate so that players have liberty to play everywhere. This requires a lot of deliberations so I’m not going to say much here until we work out the mechanism.
BBF: Gang Bintang and Subang Rascals topped the table almost effortlessly. Clearly, these top two teams are in a totally different league by themselves. In other words, there's clearly a big gap in terms of skill between the top two teams as compared to the rest. What do you think is the significance or implications of this situation towards the development of the league as a whole?
Mr. Suresh: These 2 teams are just an ordinary team just like the others with exception that these teams had made the effort to get foreign and expat players into their fold. The other teams appears to promote institutional restrictions whereby they only take players form their own college or university. Now I guess they understand that for them to be competitive in a league they have to accept some good players be within the country and foreign players to play. I believe the next league will be more competitive amongst the teams.
BBF: In your perspective, which team/ player/ local player impressed you the most and why?
Mr. Suresh: Khalid and Filip was the most outstanding players out there during the league. However they don’t impress me. Alvin of Salibandy was impressive but he was out there without any support from his team. Despite such handicap he scored some of the best goals in the league single handedly against GB and SR. His team would have done much better in the league if they were properly coached. I just hope he will play again for Salibandy in coming season and we could sort out their coaching issue.
BBF: Which team do you see rising up fast to be a tough fight in the next SFL? Why?
Mr. Suresh: I want to say Salibandy but they are without a coach and I don’t see them going anywhere without one.
KLIUC is the most organized and disciplined team. They train together and they improve tremendously in every game. I just hope they will be open to accept new players from out of their institutional circle so that they would be competitive. Most of the players had hardly played floorball for 5 months. So, there is a long way to go for them. And they have many young players with very good sports attitude compared to SR and GB.
BBF: Floorball in Selangor has definitely developed over time. What are some of the developments? Also, what are some of the areas you think the Selangor floorball scene should work on to further develop the sport as a whole?
Mr. Suresh: The numbers have been increasing lately and that is of course a success. However in Selangor, the culture here is to play floorball as much as they want but never train. Nobody here would want to attend any training. We have to work out some way to get the training going in all teams so that they could improve their skills and technique.
BBF: What are some of the plans/steps that is or will be taken to further develop the sport in Selangor? Can you share a few?
Mr. Suresh: Continue to promote floorball and there will be floorball competition throughout the year in 2010. We will try to hold a Selangor – Penang Floorball game in a public place. And also we want to bring floorball out to the people and make floorball known.
We are still planning for 2010. Some of the certain event will be the Champion’s League which should be held in March if all teams participating agrees. SFL will be played simultaneously with PFL in June. After the WFC Qualifier we will issue the calendar event for 2010. With increasing number of games, events and registered players, we are now planning to have a part time person managing the floorball affairs.
BBF: What do you hope to see in the floorball scene in Selangor for the new year?
Mr. Suresh: I expect the SFL will have 8 teams competing. That alone is awesome for us her.
A big thank you to Mr. Suresh for his time with BBF.
2010 will hopefully see a more competitive and edgier league for the Selangor state. As floorball continues to grow here in Penang, let's also continue to render our support to the other States in Malaysia.
Mr. Suresh: We are actually moving towards formalizing all tournaments in Selangor now. It started with the SFL and it went on well. We manage to conduct the games and the entire event formally and we have records of all games. Similarly the next events will be formal events.
Next step is to bring together all floorball state associations together under one and same system. Which means we will co-ordinate so that players have liberty to play everywhere. This requires a lot of deliberations so I’m not going to say much here until we work out the mechanism.
BBF: Gang Bintang and Subang Rascals topped the table almost effortlessly. Clearly, these top two teams are in a totally different league by themselves. In other words, there's clearly a big gap in terms of skill between the top two teams as compared to the rest. What do you think is the significance or implications of this situation towards the development of the league as a whole?
Mr. Suresh: These 2 teams are just an ordinary team just like the others with exception that these teams had made the effort to get foreign and expat players into their fold. The other teams appears to promote institutional restrictions whereby they only take players form their own college or university. Now I guess they understand that for them to be competitive in a league they have to accept some good players be within the country and foreign players to play. I believe the next league will be more competitive amongst the teams.
BBF: In your perspective, which team/ player/ local player impressed you the most and why?
Mr. Suresh: Khalid and Filip was the most outstanding players out there during the league. However they don’t impress me. Alvin of Salibandy was impressive but he was out there without any support from his team. Despite such handicap he scored some of the best goals in the league single handedly against GB and SR. His team would have done much better in the league if they were properly coached. I just hope he will play again for Salibandy in coming season and we could sort out their coaching issue.
BBF: Which team do you see rising up fast to be a tough fight in the next SFL? Why?
Mr. Suresh: I want to say Salibandy but they are without a coach and I don’t see them going anywhere without one.
KLIUC is the most organized and disciplined team. They train together and they improve tremendously in every game. I just hope they will be open to accept new players from out of their institutional circle so that they would be competitive. Most of the players had hardly played floorball for 5 months. So, there is a long way to go for them. And they have many young players with very good sports attitude compared to SR and GB.
BBF: Floorball in Selangor has definitely developed over time. What are some of the developments? Also, what are some of the areas you think the Selangor floorball scene should work on to further develop the sport as a whole?
Mr. Suresh: The numbers have been increasing lately and that is of course a success. However in Selangor, the culture here is to play floorball as much as they want but never train. Nobody here would want to attend any training. We have to work out some way to get the training going in all teams so that they could improve their skills and technique.
BBF: What are some of the plans/steps that is or will be taken to further develop the sport in Selangor? Can you share a few?
Mr. Suresh: Continue to promote floorball and there will be floorball competition throughout the year in 2010. We will try to hold a Selangor – Penang Floorball game in a public place. And also we want to bring floorball out to the people and make floorball known.
We are still planning for 2010. Some of the certain event will be the Champion’s League which should be held in March if all teams participating agrees. SFL will be played simultaneously with PFL in June. After the WFC Qualifier we will issue the calendar event for 2010. With increasing number of games, events and registered players, we are now planning to have a part time person managing the floorball affairs.
BBF: What do you hope to see in the floorball scene in Selangor for the new year?
Mr. Suresh: I expect the SFL will have 8 teams competing. That alone is awesome for us her.
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A big thank you to Mr. Suresh for his time with BBF.
2010 will hopefully see a more competitive and edgier league for the Selangor state. As floorball continues to grow here in Penang, let's also continue to render our support to the other States in Malaysia.
(NOTE: Info derived from http://selangorfloorballleague.blogspot.com/.
This post is written by BBF and therefore, stating BBF's opinions and thoughts.
BBF is written based on our intelligence network coverage.
We apologized for any inaccuracies.)
This post is written by BBF and therefore, stating BBF's opinions and thoughts.
BBF is written based on our intelligence network coverage.
We apologized for any inaccuracies.)
Hey, this is Jethro, the editor of SFL. Good review here and it is very accurate indeed. Job well done ! =)
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