The Malaysia national football team (Malay: Pasukan bola sepak kebangsaan Malaysia) nicknamed Harimau Malaya, as the Malayan Tiger, is the national team of Malaysia and is controlled by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). Their main regional rivalries are against Singapore and Indonesia. Before 1963, the team represented the Federation of Malaya and was known as the Malaya national football team.
Coaching Staff
Manager | Subahan Kamal |
Head coach | K. Rajagopal |
Assistant coach | Tan Cheng Hoe |
Fitness coach | Rustov Bozik |
Goalkeeping coach | Mohd Faozi Mukhlas |
Phsyiotherapist | S. Sivanesvaran |
Kit
Before the national team kit was manufactured by Nike, it had been manufactured by Adidas. Adidas had been the sponsor for national team kit since the 1970s.
Since 2007, the official Malaysia team kit has been manufactured by Nike: the association with Nike will last till 2011. The home kit's design of black and yellow stripes is a throwback to the kit used by Malaysian national team of the 1920s. The great national team of the 1970s also sported similar stripes, which are supposed to be reminiscent of the stripes of a tiger, the symbol of Malaysia's national football team.
The new home kit also sports black shorts and yellow socks. The new away kit features a blue jersey, white shorts, and blue socks, with a representation of the Malay ‘keris’ at the bottom left corner of each shirt.
In November 2010, Nike Malaysia created a new football kit for the Malaysians specially made for the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup. The home kit's design of black and yellow stripes that is shaped by black row of lines. The away kit features plain blue front and red and white at the edge of the sleeves. Nike put the Malaysian flag as their logo instead of putting the Football Association of Malaysia logo, as was the case for the great national team of the 1970s.
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