KUALA LUMPUR: The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) will not be hasty in finding a successor to Wong Choong Hann (pic), who resigned as singles’ coaching director recently.
BAM president Tan Sri Mohamad Norza Zakaria conceded that it is not easy to find a coach to fill the vacancy left by Choong Hann who ended a nearly five-year tenure since November 2018 with the country’s badminton governing body. He said, most coaches will definitely be making a firm commitment to help their respective countries get into the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, with the qualification campaign going on until next April.
“Of course we are looking for a suitable approach to replace Choong Hann. It’s not easy because he has been with us for the past five years, has integrated and become one of the driving forces and assets of our badminton team.
“Therefore we have to identify suitable coaches but it is not easy…Whether it is through adjusting the current structure (coaches) or hiring new people, that is still under discussion, we just cannot rush things up,” he said after the selection meeting of athletes and officials to the 2022 Asian Games, here. – BERNAMA
