Support Your Local Football Teams
December 19, 2006
This is for all of us, Indonesian.
Who doesn’t know Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, or David Beckham? Who has no idea whose Jose Mourinho or Sir Alex Ferguson is? I know there are a lot of you (especially sports fan) who knows them well. For they are the football superstars from those big multi millionaire football club.
Now, do you know whom Aris Indarto, Ponaryo Astaman, Robby Darwis, Benny Dolo are? Or what is Persiba Bantul? Probably not everyone knows them. They are the football athletes from Indonesia. Yes, they are not as famous as those mentions earlier. At least, for you Indonesian sports fan, you should at least have the idea who they are.
There’s nothing wrong to be a fan of those megastars. But sometimes we are to busy worshipping them we overlook our own football start. We’re underestimating and turn our face around when we talk about the Indonesian football competition and players. Yes, the quality is very far from European competition.
But so what? Are we going to rant about this all the time? How about we find a way to change it for the better? I know you probably want to say that “Hey, take a look at our own FA, it is a mess in there I tell you”. So be it, I say, it’s not the time to whine anymore. It’s time for us, Indonesian to support our competition no matter how horrible it is.
The fans support factor is somewhat necessary. If the local football fans are growing, a positive development will certainly touch some aspects of the whole problem. Whether it’s the club or the competition itself.
Fans becoming larger then the club will grow the quality of the player and officials will increase, then the competition will get better eventually. That’s my theory on how to increase the value of football in Indonesia.
Though the numbers of local football fans are growing (one example is the massive “The Jak Mania”, a solid fan club of the Persija Jakarta football club), but it’s still far from enough. In addition, it seems that others consider most of the fans of local football are second-class people.
Once again, it’s not a crime when you l become a fan of the big club (I am a Manchester United fans myself), but at least know your own local team. I have told this to some of my friends, I am a devout fans of England national team. I think they are the true champions, but if one day (though I quite certainly believe that It won’t ever happen) Indonesia plays England at some international stage, may it be one sided from the very beginning, count me 200% in to support the Indonesian national team. I am very proud of our national athletes. Considered this as my form of nationalism.
A few days ago, I saw this two bloke on two different places, but have the same uniqueness. The first wears PSM Makassar shirts and the latter wears the Persita Tangerang jersey. I have more respect to both of this people rather than those who wears Chelsea or Real Madrid Jerseys. Why should you support clubs that reside in those far sides of the world when you don’t have the will to support your own local teams?
By taking one popular slogan “Support your local indie scene”, let us change it to represent this article and to motivate us all:
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