I can see high hope put by FAM on our Malaysia U23 squad. Three high profile matches has been confirmed against top national teams which China, Kenya and Saudi Arabia in August. And they have start centralized training for 27 players for these friendly matches.

Here are the schedules

Date	Match	Venue
August 12	Malaysia vs China	Shah Alam Stadium
August 15	Malaysia vs Kenya	Shah Alam Stadium
August 30	Saudi Arabia vs Malaysia	Riyadh

For records, Saudi Arabia hold world ranking of 61, while Kenya are ranked 105^th, China are ranked 108^th and Malaysia are 157^th.

List of 27 players for centralized training are

Position	Club	Name
GK	Perlis	Farizal Marlias
	MyTeam	Syed Adney
	Terengganu	Sharbinee Allawee
DF	Perlis	Mazlizam Mohd
	Kedah	Khairul Helmi Johari
	Kedah	Mat Sabree Mat Abu
	Selangor	Mohd Asraruddin Putra
	Negeri Sembilan	Mohd Aidil Zafuan
	Harimau Muda	Mohd Muslim Ahmad
	Harimau Muda	Mahaili Jasuli
	Harimau Muda	Faizal Mohamed
MF	MyTeam	Azmi Muslim
	MyTeam	Mohd Bunyamin Omar
	Shahzan Muda	G. Mahathevan
	Perlis	Amar Rohidan
	Kedah	Mohd Khyril Muhymeen
	Kedah	Badrol Bakhtiar
	Negeri Sembilan	S. Kunalan
	Selangor	Mohd Amirul Hadi
	KL PLUS	Safiq Rahim
	Harimau Muda	K. Gurusamy
	Harimau Muda	Mohd Izzaq Faris
	Harimau Muda	Mohd Fandi Othman
ST	KM Naza	Faderin Kadir
	MyTeam	Norsharul Idlan Talaha
	Negeri Sembilan	Mohd Zaquan Adha
	Harimau Muda	Ahmad Shakir Ali

We should give thumb up for the effort made by FAM on this and I hope Malaysia U23 will repay the faith put by FAM to win the SEA Games gold medal who we last won 20years ago.