4 Indonesian Badminton Coaches Abroad And Their Achievements

YOGYAKARTA There are several badminton coaches from Indonesia who choose to have a career abroad, after leaving the Cipayung National Training Center. One of them is Flandy Limpele.

Flandy, who has not even been a Indonesian mixed doubles coach for one year, decided to leave the Cipayung National Training Center and join the Hong Kong Badminton Association. There, he was given the position of head coach of the mixed doubles sector.

Flandy's departure was allegedly due to not having the opportunity to occupy the position of head of the main mixed doubles coach which was vacant after being left by Nova Widianto.

Before joining the Cipayung national training,Flandywas one of Indonesia's badminton coaches abroad who was successful.

Through his cold hands, he succeeded in making Indian men's doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty a respected couple.

Flandy has been the coach of the Indian badminton national team since March 2019. Thanks to Flandy's tutelage, Rankireddy/Shetty have often been a stumbling block for top badminton players in other countries.

After training India, Flandy then moved to Malaysia. In neighboring countries,Flandyhas succeeded in presenting a different effect. The peak was when the men's doubles that were polished by Flandy, namely Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik, were able to get rid of Kevin/Marcus in the quarter-finals of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

In April 2022, Flandy was summoned by PBSI to train mixed doubles at the Cipayung National Training Center. However, not even a year ago in charge of mixed doubles, Fandy left and anchored to the Hong Kong Badminton Association.

Besides Flandy Limpele, who are the Indonesian badminton coaches who choose to have a career abroad?

Summarized from various sources, the following is the Indonesian badminton coach who has succeeded in making achievements abroad.

Rexy Mainaky is an Indonesian badminton legend who is the coach of the Malaysian badminton national team.

Before signing the Malaysian badminton national team, Rexy joined the Thai badminton association (BAT).

Rexy was contracted by BAT as head coach on January 5, 2017. However, he only arrived in the White Elephant country on January 6, 2017, to sign a year-long contract with BAT.

At that time, the President of BAT, Pamama Leeswadtrakul, admitted that he believed that Rexy's experience as a player and coach was able to help Thailand win an Olympic medal.

Just so you know, since badminton was competed at the 1992 Olympics, Thailand has never won a single medal.

When he was head coach, Rexy led Thailand's women's team to become runners-up for the 2018 Uber Cup when it was held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Apart from Thailand and Malaysia, Rexy is noted to have been a coach for the England badminton national team.

Here are a series of achievements that Rexy has made during his tenure abroad:

Apart from Rexy Mainaky, Mulyo Handoyo is also one of Indonesia's badminton coaches abroad who has proud achievements.

Mulyo was proven to be good at orbiting a great badminton player in the men's doubles number. One of the most famous is Taufik Hidayat. The Indonesian badminton legend is a product of Mulyo Handoyo's cold hands.

Some of the achievements that Mulyo Handoyo has made as a coach include:

Hendrawan is a badminton coach from Indonesia who has a career in Malaysia. He has joined the Malaysian Association (BAM) since 2009.

Hendrawan was contracted by BAM after becoming PBSI Pelatnas coach for 5 years. His departure at that time was a major blow to Indonesia. Moreover, he left after accompanying the Red and White team in the Sudirman Cup. At that time, Indonesia was silenced by South Korea in the semifinals.

Hendrawan made the achievement during his time as the men's singles coach for the Malaysian badminton national team, namely:

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