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Malaysia suffered their worst-ever finish in the 2026 FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup, finishing 16th overall. Former national player Maninderjit "Mike" Singh shares his thoughts on the performance.

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00:00What happened at the World Cup?
00:01Because we've always had, okay, for as long as I've watched Hockey, Malaysian Hockey,
00:07I've always had this, like, I know that we've never been, we've never come last.
00:18I'm very confident because I've never seen the World Cup.
00:25What are your thoughts?
00:28How far back do you want to go back?
00:30And you see, we have not recovered beyond 2018 Asian Games.
00:34I knew 2018 Asian Games is going to be the peak for Malaysia.
00:40That's the best chance to qualify for Olympics.
00:43When the Federation announced they're going to get top eight,
00:49actually, when the press conference held by the Federation,
00:53all the reporters were very confused.
00:55And we knew, if you're going to get to the quarter-final, you minimum must beat two games.
01:02Yeah.
01:02I'm sitting down here and says, okay, France, touch and go.
01:06How are you going to beat the German and the Belgian?
01:08Yeah, especially the Germans.
01:09How?
01:10Yeah.
01:11So then I was a bit skeptical.
01:13In my books, ideally, we should finish at least 12 and above.
01:1916 is something that I think when you put ambition and then you get the results,
01:26I think there's a structural gap that we are losing our standards in world hockey generally.
01:34Oh, boy.
01:41Oh, boy.
01:42You
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