Funny PSSI! The Indonesian National Team Cancels Training Due To Trivial Things, Shin Tae-Yong: I'm Embarrassed To Say This

The coach of the Indonesian national team, Shin Tae-Yong. (Doc. PSSI)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian national team will face Bangaladesh in a FIFA-friendly match at the Si Jalak Harupat Stadium, Bandung, on June 1. However, the preparations of the Garuda Squad were a bit disturbed.

The inaugural exercise, which was supposed to be held on Thursday, May 26, at the Madya Stadium, Senayan, Jakarta, was canceled. The reason is quite ridiculous.

The Indonesian national team coach Shin Tae-Yong said his squad had canceled training at the Madya Stadium, because PSSI had not yet booked the field.

"I'm a bit embarrassed to say this. When we were about to go to the field, it turned out that there was news that the stadium had not been booked," Shin told reporters, as reported by Antara.

The Indonesian national team, which was originally scheduled to train at the Madya Stadium starting at 17.00 western Indonesia time, changed the training ground. The Indonesian national team players then underwent training at the Sultan Hotel, where they were staying.

Shin Tae-Yong admitted, this is not a big problem because their training program for today is only recovery. However, the man from South Korea hopes that nothing like this will happen again.

"There are no problems for today because we are only doing recovery exercises. However, in the future, this should not happen again," said Shin.

In response to this, PSSI Bandung Media Officer Saputra gave a clarification. Bandung said that PSSI had actually submitted a request for the use of the Bung Karno Intermediate Stadium.

However, the management stated, the stadium can only be used for a minimum of two hours at even hours, for example at 14.00-16.00 western Indonesia time, 16.00-18.00 western Indonesia time and so on.