Back Passt With Ras

This week we speak to a member of the Balestier Khalsa Women's team, Syafiqah Peer who was recently called up for the Singapore National Women's Team and the head coach of the Balestier Khalsa Women's team and the assistant coach of the Singapore National Women's Team, Ratna Suffian. 

We find out from Syafiqah her reaction to receiving the call-up and what it was like going into the national team training alongside two other club teammates, Siti Nurewadah and Nur Izyan. We ask Ratna for his reaction to his players receiving a national call-up. We find out from Syafiqah what is the difference between training for the club compared to the national team. We get her reaction to not playing in the international friendly against Indonesia and we get Syafiqah and Ratna to analyse the friendly defeat to Indonesia. 

We got Ratna to analyse the Women's Premier League season that had just concluded for Balestier Khalsa. We find out from Syafiqah what she improved on and what she feels she needs to improve. 

We find out from Ratna what his future plans are for the team and what Syafiqah's career goals are. Finally, we get their views on the support received this season from the sponsors for the Women's Premier League and the issues surrounding the lack of amenities available at the stadium for their matches. 

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We speak to an ex-professional footballer and pundit in Singapore, Benoit Croissant and the other half of The PLot Malaysia, Ram Ranai this week. 

We try and understand the French public's reaction to France's struggles in the late 80s and early 90s and their expectations going into France 98. 

Then we tap on what Ram and Benoit remember of that time in their life, the teams that surprised them, teams that disappointed them, and the big clashes of the heavyweight nations and standout players. 

We then talk about the final and end with their respective France 98 XI. 

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We received an unexpected and surprise guest, a player that played at USA 94 for the host nation, current Philippines men's national team manager, Thomas Dooley. Joining him was a guest that we missed during our recording due to a family bereavement, Lubis Ratno.

We spoke about the reaction of the American public towards the World Cup, the preparation of the American team leading to the World Cup, Lubis' memory of the World Cup, the journey of the American national team at the World Cup, the best and worst USA 94 kits according to Lubis and Lubis names his USA 94 XI.

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This week we speak to two young talents, Puvan Raj and Hariysh Kumar. First we revisit the epic win over Lion City Sailors (LCS) on Sunday with Hariysh, as we probe to find out more about what was said by the head coach at half-time and the reaction of the players on the bench to the goals. We ask both of them about how they felt they played in the U21 team as individuals and as a team. 

In the following segment, we get their honest opinions on how their career is panning out so far, what their ideal career would be like and what they need to do to improve. We also ask them if not for football what would they have been pursuing in terms of their career today? 

Finally, we find out from Hariysh the atmosphere back in training after the win over LCS and what the coach is doing to keep them grounded. We also find out what they feel they need to do to force themselves into contention. 

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We speak with a couple of returning guests, Sivan John from The Bola Bola Show and Harikishin Samandas from The PLot Malaysia. 

We start the show by sharing our memories of watching the World Cup in 1994 and what we knew of the USA as a football team leading to the World Cup and how they did in this World Cup as hosts. 

We then spoke about the teams that surprised us in the tournament and the journey of their favourite teams. We then moved on to standout players, characters and moments in this World Cup. We speak briefly about the jerseys at this World Cup. 

Then we speak about the final. Sivan had a piece where he spoke about the legacy of this World Cup and its impact on football in the USA. 

We end by getting them to go through their USA 94 XI. 

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This week we speak to three players that were called up for the senior (Ho Wai Loon) and U21 (Aidil Johari & Ryan Praveen) Singapore national teams during the recent international break in September 2022. 

We first find out about their reaction to being called up for the national team. In the case of Wai Loon, it was his first call-up since 2018 so we find out what the differences were between then and now and if he found any familiar faces from back then. In the case of Aidil and Ryan, we find out how they settled into the squad and what the takeaway is for all three players from their international duty. 

Next, we look forward to the game this Sunday against Lion City Sailors and we ask Wai Loon, after his experience with the national team dominated by Sailors players, how much are they looking forward to facing them. We ask Ryan on what he thinks he needs to do to break into the starting 11. We ask Aidil if the current head coach would give young players more chances to play after seeing players like him make the breakthrough in the first team this season.

We ask Wai Loon as one of the team captains and best players in the team how he plans to motivate the team going into the final stretch of the games this season and we jokingly asked if he picked out any weakness of his national team-mates playing for Sailors to pass on to his head coach. 

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We speak with a returning guest, Andrea Trevisi who is an Italian and was a resident in Italy at the time of this World Cup and two fans from Singapore, Lubis Ratno and Sivaram. Lubis runs the Football Network SG group on Facebook and Siva is a big Bayern Munich, Germany and Bundesliga fan. 

Andrea spoke about the development of the infrastructure and stadiums in Italy leading to the World Cup and the expectations of the locals for the host nation. 

We then ask Lubis and Siva what they knew of the World Cup leading up to it at that time. 

We then discuss the surprise teams in the tournament, standout players, colourful characters and the reputation of being a negative World Cup. 

Andrea discusses the performance of the host nation in the tournament while Luis and Siva discuss how their favourite team did in the World Cup. We tap into their memory bank of watching the matches in the stadium (Andrea) and watching them in front of the TV (Lubis & Siva). 

We end the show with their Italia 90 XI. 

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We start the show on a solemn note as we pass our condolences to the late FAS President, Mr Lim Kia Tong. 

We speak to Serbian centre-back, Ensar Bruncevic this week and get an update on his injury and try to understand the general procedure when a player gets injured. 

We try and find out what he can share on his so-far brief experience of working with the new Head Coach, Peter De Roo. We also find out from him what brought him to Singapore, settling in Singapore when he newly joined the club, what he likes about living in Singapore and what he misses about Serbia. 

We then find out what he thought of the previous match against Tanjong Pagar United watching from the sidelines, the upcoming match against Hougang United and what he has made of his season so far. 

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We speak to Balestier Khalsa's U17 Head Coach, Leonard Tan and Captain, Irfan Siregar.

We find out about how the squad was formed, their pre-season preparations, the coach's philosophy and tactics, the challenges of the players in managing life as a student and footballer, the choice of captain and the challenges the head coach faces. 

We get Irfan to describe his coach, we get them to analyse the season so far, who they feel are their strongest challengers in the league and finally, we check with Leonard if there are any senior players keeping tabs on the U17 team. 

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We speak to Balestier Khalsa's new Head Coach, Peter De Roo this week. 

We find out how he got to know of the job vacancy at Balestier and what convinced him to take up the job. The difference between the role of a Technical Director and Head Coach, the difficulties of coming in the final phase of the league season to work with a squad he inherited. 

We then got him to describe himself as a Head Coach and what the fans can expect from him, working with the players and if anyone has impressed him, looking ahead to the next match against Albirex Niigata and the standard of the teams in the Singapore Premier League. 

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