The road for the Indonesian national team to win in various prestigious events with Shin Tae-yong seems to have encountered quite a difficult obstacle.
One of the obstacles is the BRI Liga 1 club, which is difficult to cooperate with regarding the summons of players to the Indonesian national team.
At the AFF Cup 2020 yesterday, Shin Tae-yong was heavily criticized for being said to have weakened the club’s players who were competing.
The same incident was repeated when the Indonesian national team was about to play a FIFA Matchday match, several clubs such as Persebaya, PSIS and Bhayangkara FC complained that their players were called to the national team.
Recently, Persebaya coach, Aji Santoso, officially did not release Marselino Ferdinand to the Indonesian national team squad to participate in TC in South Korea in the near future.
Aji Santoso reasoned that Marselino was really needed because Persebaya was still struggling to win the BRI Liga 1 title.
On that occasion, Aji Santoso also admitted that he had contacted Shin Tae-yong regarding Marselino who had canceled to join the U-19 Indonesia national team squad.
“Last night I communicated with coach Shin Tae-yong, last night I spoke for 30 minutes and I conveyed the situation of Persebaya,” said Aji Santoso, Saturday (5/3/2022).
“One Marselino is really needed in the team, the second condition of Kambuaya is not 100 percent fit, the third we are still in the race for the championship path,” said Aji.
“So I conveyed last night and thank God Shin Tae-yong was able to understand the condition of our situation,” he added.
“For the time being, Marselino will continue to play for Persebaya, I convey to Shin Tae-yong,” said Aji.
“As long as we still have a chance to win, we still use Marselino and he (Shin Tae-yong) is very understanding, I will not make it difficult at all.”
“I know the situation, it won’t be difficult, but please understand our situation and that’s coach Shin Tae-yong there is no problem,” he continued.
“So I have conveyed our situation like that, so we don’t have anything to make it difficult for Marselino to join the national team, when it’s finished, we will definitely support everyone,” he concluded.
If this continues, it is not impossible that Shin Tae-yong will appear at half strength. For this reason, PSSI needs to mediate on this issue so that there are no clashing schedules between the national team and clubs in the future.
