A photo posted on Facebook of Malaysia’s national footballers smoking in their team jerseys has been making its rounds online.The footballers are in Singapore ahead of their Asean Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup Group B clash against Singapore tomorrow.
The players are in the yellow and black jerseys of the Malaysia team. Striker Safee Sali is visibly smoking in the picture.
The photo was posted on Facebook today by a Facebook user "Jose Raymond" at 9.50am.
In the post, he said: “Here’s one reason why I am confident our Lions will go through to the semi-finals of the AFF Suzuki Cup. At least have the decency to remove your national colours. Recognise any of them? Tsk tsk tsk.”
Raymond, who is chief executive officer at the Singapore Environment Council, went on to say in the comments section that the photo was taken while the players were having supper at a coffeeshop near the hotel where the team is staying.
“Also serves as a reminder to all of us that the world is a very different place today and you are being watched all the time, regardless where we are, especially so when we are public figures,” Raymond added.
Speaking to TODAY, local footballer and Tanjong Pagar United captain Hafiz Osman feels that what happens off the field is the player’s “personal responsibility”.
“(Safee Sali) should have gone to a quieter place so that no one could see him when he took a puff,” Osman said.
Calling him one of the best strikers in Malaysia, Osman added that he “is human after all” and “you cannot judge him based on his actions”. – TODAY Online, November 28, 2014.
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