The Malaysian Under-19 Football Team Cleaned Up Their Dressing Room At The AFF U-19 Championship!

Main image via Hairuddin Omar/Instagram

The Malaysian team is currently in the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U019 (Under-19) Championship in Indonesia, and recently defeated Cambodia in the group stages.

Image via Football Association of Malaysia (Official)

Inspired by Japan’s cleaning spirit in Russia, the boys in the team have decided to clean their dressing room after the match too! Not long after, the post went viral as netizens praised the team for exhibiting such good sportsmanship.

 

To build discipline of players outside and inside the field..Inspirasi Jepun..Congrats guys..keep it up.still long way to go....#AFFU19 #Fam #Surabaya #AsiaCupU19 #Adeqsue

A post shared by Director Of ADEQSUE (@hairuddin_omar20) on Jul 4, 2018 at 5:40am PDT

In even more exciting news, the team defeated Indonesia with a score of 3-2 on the 12^th of July and will be heading to the finals! However, their win didn’t sit well with fans of the host country, who threw rocks and plastic bottles at our young sportsmen at the end of the match.

 

A post shared by Director Of ADEQSUE (@hairuddin_omar20) on Jul 12, 2018 at 10:30am PDT

With the help of the Indonesian authorities, they had to be rushed to their dressing room for safety purposes. Malaysian Youth and Sports Minister, Syed Saddiq, also had to intervene with the situation.

I was briefed by the SU of FAM on this.
1) The Indonesian authorities have been very cooperative.
2) Extra security during our trainings.
3) Extra security during the final this Saturday night.

I personally will be flying down to Indonesia tonight. We are all one big family. https://t.co/gnz4U6alBC

— Syed Saddiq (@SyedSaddiq) July 13, 2018

Fortunately, nobody was injured and our boys will be ready to take on Myanmar in the finals tomorrow. Good luck!

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