To my captain, I am very proud that you have been finally recognised and awarded this title for all the contributions and sacrifices you made for the game of hockey, as a player, manager and coach.
As the captain, especially of the ’75 World Cup you led the team exceptionally well and who can forget the winning goal you scored against Holland, the reigning World Cup champions at that time, on March 11, 1975 at the Kilat Club. It also happened to be the birthday of our beloved Prime Minister at that time the late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, who was the president of the Malaysian Hockey Federation.
Tun Razak gave each player and official a gold Omega watch for our effort.
I was very honoured to be in that team and we played really well under your guidance and our late coach Datuk Ho Koh Chye. He will be very proud of you, Shan.
We were the best assembled team and we delivered the results. Till today everyone who talks about hockey refers to the 1975 World Cup team (pic). We were the BEST TEAM ever.
On behalf of the players of the team, I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Sultan Azlan Shah for honouring Datuk Shanmuganathan with this title.
It is really a very meaningful honour for him and to us, Tuanku.
K. BALASINGAM,
(Member of the 1975 World Cup Hockey Team).
Dear Sir,
ReplyDeleteI would really appreciate if you could show the list of all the players name. Are all of them still in Malaysia and do you all get to meet again or gather once in a while.
I am really very proud of the 1975 Malaysia world hockey team.
Thanks and best regards
Victor
Well done Malaysia,, 1975 hockey team.. 🙏🙏🙏
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