PSSI to help place RI's soccer cream<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The All-Indonesia Football Association (PSSI) is
\ndiscussing ways to deploy national junior soccer players who have
\ncompleted their training stint in Italy.<\/p>\n
\"A special team will be set up to discuss it. We hope that a
\ndecision can be reached by and announced on Sept. 1,\" Nirwan
\nBakrie, the man who mastermind the teenagers' two-year stint,
\ntold reporters yesterday.<\/p>\n
Half of the 20-strong Italian-trained players have yet to find
\nany clubs to play with. One player, Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto, has
\nsigned with Swiss premiership side FC Lucerne. Four players have
\njoined Swedish clubs. The rest of them have confirmed that they
\nwould like to return to their provincial clubs.<\/p>\n
PSSI initiated the program in a bid to develop world-class
\nbooters by sending a selected under-19 team to Italy to train
\nintensively with soccer giant Sampdoria and join the Italian
\njunior league, Primavera.<\/p>\n
Once they are older than 19, they are no longer eligible for
\nthe program.<\/p>\n
Nirwan said the special team is needed to conduct a fair
\ndeployment of players because the recipients, mostly Indonesian
\nleague clubs, differ in their financial capacities.<\/p>\n
According to Nirwan, one club wanted to take all of the young
\nplayers. He did not give the name of the club.<\/p>\n
Nirwan also refused to disclose the transfer fees the PSSI
\nwould receive as a result of its intermediary activities, saying
\nthat the special team had not even started its job.<\/p>\n
\"One thing is sure. We will require the interested team to
\nsign a two-year contract to employ the players. After that, we
\nwill let things go as they will,\" Nirwan said.<\/p>\n
The junior team has completed its second international tour of
\nduty in the Olympic Asia Oceania zone qualifying round. South
\nKorea dashed Indonesia's hopes of making an Olympic appearance in
\nAtlanta.(arf)<\/p>",
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