NSAs Told to Appoint Managers for Commonwealth Games

Kualalumpur: All national sports associations whose athletes have qualified for the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games have been asked to appoint their managers before the end of the month.

The National Sports Council (NSC) director-general, Datuk Zolkples Embong, said that the associations were also required to name only one manager each to facilitate the monitoring of athletes’ performance and welfare.

“They are also asked to name managers who can work and not appoint them based on their turn among the associations’ council members. Selecting managers based on their turn should no longer be practised,” he said yesterday.

Zolkples had earlier briefed representatives of 27 associations on the NSC’s programme for this year as well as the preparations for the New Delhi Commonwealth Games (Oct 3-14) and Guangzhou Asian Games (Nov 13-21).

Zolkples, who is the chef-de-mission of the contingent for the Asian Games, said that associations were also told to rationalise their athletes’ participation in championships abroad and in the country based on their budget capacity and the need to ensure that their athletes were not injured or experiencing fatigue.

On the NSC’s priority for the two Games, Zolkples said that it was up to the coaches to set the targets.