Sports Career- short lived?
I was going through my "News In Week" papers a few days ago and saw the blog prompt about parents discouraging their children from a career in sports as they believe that the children will never go far. Thus, I decided to write a post on this topic.
Firstly, let's face it. No self-respecting kiasu parent is ever, ever going to allow his or her kid to pursue a career in sports as chances are slim that it would be a long time career. Is there any chance that a parent would allow his or her son to pursue a career in oh, let's say football, when the monthly income would be the same as what he could earn in a private company in a week? No.
That's mostly what the Chinese parents would do. As for the Malays, they believe that if any career would bring in a monthly income, it would be fine unless it is illegal or wrong. After all, Mr Fandi-Ahmad-I-Played-Football-For-Singapore-But-I-Am-Rich is a role model to any football playing kid, isn't he?
And thus, with all this, the results can be seen. In 2001, in the pre-qualifying World Cup match, not a single football player in the starting X was Chinese. Even now, how many Chinese football players do you see competing in the S-league? Furthermore, with the known fact that Chinese make up more than half of the population in Singapore, we have to admit that we are indeed a kiasu lot. I myself know well. My parents always remind me about how important that sheet of paper is in society these days, and how I am likely to suffer without it. I am sure the same goes for many of my classmates
In conclusion, I would like to hear your views on this post. Thanks +)
Firstly, let's face it. No self-respecting kiasu parent is ever, ever going to allow his or her kid to pursue a career in sports as chances are slim that it would be a long time career. Is there any chance that a parent would allow his or her son to pursue a career in oh, let's say football, when the monthly income would be the same as what he could earn in a private company in a week? No.
That's mostly what the Chinese parents would do. As for the Malays, they believe that if any career would bring in a monthly income, it would be fine unless it is illegal or wrong. After all, Mr Fandi-Ahmad-I-Played-Football-For-Singapore-But-I-Am-Rich is a role model to any football playing kid, isn't he?
And thus, with all this, the results can be seen. In 2001, in the pre-qualifying World Cup match, not a single football player in the starting X was Chinese. Even now, how many Chinese football players do you see competing in the S-league? Furthermore, with the known fact that Chinese make up more than half of the population in Singapore, we have to admit that we are indeed a kiasu lot. I myself know well. My parents always remind me about how important that sheet of paper is in society these days, and how I am likely to suffer without it. I am sure the same goes for many of my classmates
In conclusion, I would like to hear your views on this post. Thanks +)
posted by Xavier the Confused at 8:08 PM
5 Comments:
I don't agree on the point that no parent would ever allow his child to pursue a sports career. There are some parents who understand their child's passion and let them pursue it. I once came across this article about a father who, on hearing his 18 year-old son saying he wanted to be a garbage collector, said "Then be the best garbage collector in Singapore". Sadly, these type of parents are very rare nowadays...
seriously? now that's rare
Apparently footballers earn more monthly income than people who work in private companies.
It's just like parents who want top scorers in PSLE go to elite schools and get them stress and jump off the buildings.
Only if the child is super gifted in that sport and is really interested, I dont think any Singaporean parent would let their childs pursue a entirely sports career. To most Singaporeans, education is their number one priorty as they do not see much hope of their child making headlines and earning big bucks as in Singapore, the wages of a professional footballer can go up to 100 000 pounds a week or more. Here, a footballer earns about 3000 or more a month. After they retire, where would they go? The money earned over the years as a footballer is just like a normal person's pay and as he does not have proper education, the ex-footballer would go bankrupt? Conclusion: If you want your child to pursue a sports career, he or she must be really gifted like Fandi Ahmad and his sons or you can forget about that 5-storey mansion in your dreams
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