Saturday, July 31, 2010
Persela finally appoint new coach
After being strongly linked with Ivan Kolev and Rahmad Darmawan Persela have now finally chosen Subangkit to be their man next season. He spent most of last season with Persema and put together a good hard working team perhaps lacking only in a poacher to convert that pretty approach play.
Not sure who he will have to work with at Persela. Last season they boasted Brazilian play maker Leanardo Zada Martins and the cute Smasul Arief who has recently been called up for national team trials by new coach Alfred Riedl.
When I say cute I don't mean he has a chubby face with a dimple in his chin. He's an intelligent player blessed with a good first touch and an eye for what's around him.
He first caught (my) the eye in the 2008/2009 Copa Indonesia campaign when he was playing with Persibo, then of the Premier League, who managed to beat some of the bigger boys during a successful campaign that took them to the quarter finals.
After a slow start at the Lamongan team he started finding the net quite regularly but it is a surprise, actually it's not, that it has taken so long to earn national recognition.
# posted by Me @ 7:33 PM 
