The Women's Team Is Not Just A Sweetman

The Indonesian women's basketball team won the Cambodia 2023 SEA Games gold medal. (Photo via Antara)

JAKARTA - Popular sports such as football and basketball have a large fan base. However, usually the women's team, has no prestige like the men's team.

Try to say who was crazy yesterday, shouted hysterically, or was touched when the Indonesian U-22 Football National Team won gold at the SEA Games by beating Thailand 5-2, but also watched the women's soccer match.

Let alone the Indonesian Women's Football National Team, hardline Manchester United fans are not necessarily watching Ella Toone compete with Manchester United Women FC regularly. In the sport of basketball, the Los Angeles Lakers, who won the NBA 17 times, did not have a team of daughters. The Lakers Girls only appeared on the field in the middle of the match to cheer up on LeBron James et al. The Lakers Girls are nothing more than a group of cheers.

In Indonesian basketball, the fate is not much different. Basketball clubs, such as Satria Muda, Prawira Harum, Dewa United also did not have a team for women. How do you want to make a team if women's basketball competitions are not organized in the country? However, regardless of the absence, the Indonesian Women's Basketball National Team could win in Southeast Asia by bringing home the gold medal at the Cambodian SEA Games 2023. Not playing, they even became perfect champions by becoming an unbeaten team in Cambodia, The Invicible.The dynamics of the country is dealt without mercy in Southeast Asia's biggest sporting event. Starting by defeating Vietnam 67-62 in the opening game, narrowly winning over Thailand 70-69, beating Malaysia 85-67, destroying the Philippines 89-68, beating Cambodia 100-54, and finally overthrowing Singapore 86-39. The story of the women's basketball team's victory is not just about winning gold, but also about the record and history dedicated to Mother Earth. The Indonesian women's basketball team is said to be condemned by never winning in the first game of the SEA Games. In Cambodia, these Indonesian women proved it to be a mere myth. In Cambodia too, the history was engraved for Indonesia in the field of sport. This was the first gold ever obtained by the Women's Basketball Team during Indonesia to participate in the Southeast Asian sports competition. The first mass after 64 years of the SEA Games was held, or 46 years after Indonesia participated in the sports event of ASEAN countries. Previously, the achievements of the Women's Basketball National Team medals during the SEA Games were never better than silver. In 1991 at Gate City won silver, 1997 in Jakarta won bronze, in 2015 in Singapore was silver, won bronze in 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, bronze again in the Philippines in 2019, and silver medals in Hanoi. Adelaide Callista Wongsohardjo, Agustin Gradita Retong, Antonio's son, Dewa Ayu Madeharta Kusuma, Dyah Lestari, Kadek Pratita Citta Dewi, Kimberley.

Most people always see the results, without knowing what the process would be like. The Women's Basketball national team is far from the media spotlight, few who know him. Departing to Cambodia without being escorted, but when they were returned home were picked up and greeted, even paraded around the city of Jakarta. Behind the gold there were girls who were far from their parents for one year. Behind the victory there was a breath that almost ran away because they were forced to run many times, and of all that there was also a group of female athletes who fell ill along to the point of being treated in the hospital simultaneously. It was a little of the many sacrifices of the training camp (training camp, TC) program carried out by PP Perbasi for one year. General Chairperson of PP Perbasi Danny Kosasih and Manager of the Women's Basketball Team Christopher Tanuwidjaja agreed to hold a long-term training camp for one year. It was decided because there was no women's basketball competition in the country that could hone their skills. The women's national team was sent abroad, trained all out to bring out the best potential from themselves.Usaha did not betray the results. The women's team managed to win gold without defeat even though. In fact, four of the total 12 women's players also competed in the women's 3x3 basketball number which also won bronze medals.