SEA Games 2025: Out muscled, outpaced and outlasted - SNOC blasts Young Lions

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Singapore mens under-22 football players reacting after losing 3-1 to Timor-Leste at the SEA Games.

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Summary

• SNOCs Mark Chay criticised the U-22 football teams attitude and performance at the SEA Games.
• Chay highlighted a systemic problem within FAS, noting a lack of acknowledgement of issues, while High Performance Sport Institure Su Chun Wei also pointed out the teams poor performance.
• Su underscored the importance of the Unleash the Roar! project to improve Singapore football and called for patience, reaffirming the commitment to youth development.

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BANGKOK – Out muscled, outpaced and outlasted – these were the choice words used by Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) secretary-general Mark Chay on Dec 20, when he delivered his verdict on the national men’s Under-22 football team’s performance at the SEA Games.

Chay did not mince his words when asked about the Young Lions at the Team Singapore review at Bangkok’s Grand Fourwings Convention Hotel, noting that there was a “systemic problem”. He was part of a three-man panel alongside Singapore chef de mission Lawrence Leow and High Performance Sport Institute (HPSI) chief Su Chun Wei at the press conference.

Responding to a question on whether there were regrets in allowing the team’s participation at the Games, he said: “I wouldn’t say that there are regrets. We need to give our athletes opportunities to shine, it is regrettable that the athletes were not able to and the results