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0 PERSATUAN SEPAK TAKRAW MALAYSIA(PSM)
1.1 HISTORY AND FUNCTION
The founder of the malaysian sepak takraw association is Dato’ Seri Haji Mohd
Yussof Latiff. The history of Sepak Takraw began in Penang around 1940 and the
game is becoming increasingly popular. Foresight, determination and perseverance
of several players and officials of the Sepak Takraw team on the island, the Penang
Sepak Raga Sponsoring Committee which was established on 25 March 1956 at the
UMNO Hall, Penang has invited representatives of several states to the conference
on Thursday 28 January 1960 at the Penang Malay Association Building No. 160
Jalan Perak Penang to form a Sepak Takraw Federation at the national level. They
met a lower committee meeting on the laws of netball which took place at the Sultan
Sulaiman Club, Jalan Hale Kuala Lumpur on Friday 15 April 1960. They also held a
general meeting and appointed committee members on Friday 25 June 1960 at the
Jalan Patani People's Hall in Penang which was officiated by YAB Dato Wong Pow
Nee Chief Minister of Penang, then the Federation of Malaya Football Federation
(PSM) organization was established. The function of Malaysian Sepak Takraw
Association(PSM) is to dig out the talents in the community by making open
tournaments that can attract the interest of the community, especially the young
people now who are less athletic. To equip items necessities for training and
necessities for the player.they are also responsible for unearthing new talent talents
to be mediated so that they can shine in the future They are also responsible for
selecting talented players to make a name for malaysia in international tournaments.
1.2 Achievements of organization.
In 1965, Malaysia hosted the Southeast Asian Peninsula Games (SEAP). This year
is also the first time sepak raga is brought to the international level with the name as
sepaktakraw. Here is also the first gold medal of the SEAP Games successfully won
by Malaysia. Since then, Malaysia has become a major power in the event and
maintained its dominance as the gold medalist in the bi -annual games. From the
1971 SEAP Games, Kuala Lumpur until the 1983 Singapore SEA Games, Malaysia
never failed to take home a gold medal. the national sepaktakraw team that
participated in the SEA Games in Jakarta in 1979, managed to grab the gold medal,
thus placing the country as a leading team in Southeast Asia. In 1980, the Malaysian
Sepaktakraw Association (PSM) at that time under Tan Sri Samad Idris also held a
series of shows in the People's Republic of China, North Korea and Hong Kong,
thus the sport penetrated interest among the Asian countries. During that period
especially until 1983, the Malaysian team was so dominant that it swept gold medals
in all SEAP Games and SEA Games except the 1967 SEAP Games in Bangkok,
Thailand where Malaysia only won silver medals and the 1969 SEAP Games in
Rangoon, Myanmar because the event was not contested. . Malaysia also won two
gold medals at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, China and one gold medal at the
1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan which was the last gold medal won by the
national team at the Asian Games. Malaysia won the gold medal in the team event
at the 1991 Manila SEA Games, the gold medal in the inter -squad event to Malaysia
at the 2005 SEA Games in Manila.
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