KUCHING: Sponsorship programme by the private sector can be developed further to enable Sarawak to attain their highest level in development in football for the future.
Through the sponsorship, the Sarawak FA will be able to identify new players from the youth to play at the State level, said Assistant Minister Youth Development, Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah.
Speaking after the signing ceremony at the Isuzu Cup Under 19 Sarawak sponsorship between the Sarawak FA and Isuzu Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Abdul Karim said new players for the Sarawak team will come from such sponsorships programme to help spur the development of the sport.
Later, Isuzu Malaysia presented a mock cheque for RM100,000 to the Sarawak FA.
“We need to follow through this kind of sponsorship programme to work out for more tournaments for this is where the development of future players come from.
“We hope from the under-19 development programme, Sarawak will be able to identify new players for the State team to bring football to another level,” said Karim who also thanked Isuzu for coming up with such an idea to help in the development of football in the State.
Senior manager, Vehicle Sales of Isuzu Malaysia, Junaidy Sulaiman in his address hoped the RM100,000 sponsorship will be an impetus for the state in aid of development efforts and to unearth new talents.
“Even though this sponsorship will be for this tournament, we will look at future possible sponsorships for long term development.
“This is the first time we got involved in football as part of our CSR for we had similar programmes with triathlon in Port Dickson and we hope this partnership will help the FAS and the State Government to be able to get the talents to get to the next level”.
The tournament will see eight teams from various divisions compete for the first time in 12 years for the coveted cup - the venue of which is at the Kota Samarahan district stadium from Dec 15-22.
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