UPB-MyTeam FC

"For information about the reality TV series, see MyTeam (Malaysian TV series)."

Football club infobox
clubname = UPB-MyTeam FC


fullname = United Plantations Berhad-MyTeam
Football Club
nickname = "The revolution of Malaysian football",
"Jaguh Kampung"
founded = 2006
ground = MBPJ Stadium, Kelana Jaya,
Petaling Jaya, Selangor
capacity = 25,000
chairman = flagicon|Malaysia YB Khairy Jamaluddin
manager = flagicon|Malaysia Jason Lo
coach = flagicon|Croatia Bojan Hodak
league = Malaysia Super League
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UPB-MyTeam Football Club is a Malaysian soccer club which competes in the top tier of Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super League. The team's home stadium is the MBPJ Stadium in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

The club as it exists today is the result of a merger of Perak UPB Football Club and MyTeam (a football team created through the Malaysian reality TV show "MyTeam") prior to the 2006-07 Malaysian football season.

History

Launched in 2006, the TV3 reality TV series "MyTeam" brought together a squad of soccer players from around Malaysia with no professional playing experience known as "MyTeam". The show followed the team as it was selected through trails and then trained and coached by the former Malaysian international footballer Shebby Singh, before taking on the Malaysia national football team in an exhibition match. MyTeam lost 2-1 to the national team in the exhibition game on May 28 2006. The show generated considerable interest. MyTeam was subsequently invited to join the Malaysia Premier League for the 2006-07 season.

Perak UPB FC was an ailing football club sponsored by the Malaysian United Plantations Board (UPB), based in Teluk Intan, Perak. (When it was first formed, the club had been known as Perak Jenderata FC.) The club was poised to "go the way of the dinosaur" before the politician Khairy Jamaluddin, who along with radio DJ Jason Lo was the co-creator and Executive Producer of the "MyTeam" series, decided to take over the club and form a base for MyTeam to became a professional competive team. The name UPB-MyTeam FC was adopted upon Perak UPB FC's management's request (however it has been speculated that the "UPB" will be dropped from the club's name at some point in the future). Khairy Jamaluddin and Jason Lo became the club's President and Deputy President, and Bojan Hodak of Croatia was hired to become the team's coach.

UPB-MyTeam FC finished the 2006-07 Malaysia Premier League season as as runners-up behind PDRM FA, and as a result were promoted to the Malaysia Super League 2007-08 season.

A second season of the reality TV show, "MyTeam2", was broadcast in 2007 (MyTeam2 took on the Indonesian national football team, losing 2-0). Three players from MyTeam2 (Muhamad Noor Hassan, Mohan a/l R. Azmi and Mohd Hisham Hashim) have joined the UPB-MyTeam FC squad for the 2007-08 Malaysian Super League season.

Officials

Club Management (2007-08)

Players

Current squad

Transfers

In
flagicon|Malaysia Mohd Hafifi Mohd Safii from Young Tigers FC
flagicon|Malaysia Stanley Bernard Stephen Samuel to Kuala Lumpur FA

Out
flagicon|Croatia Mijo Dadic released
flagicon|Croatia Sasa Branezac to Deltras Sidoarjo
flagicon|Brazil Edvaldo Goncalves Pereira released
flagicon|Malaysia Mohd Haris Safwan Mohd Kamal to Felda United FC

Former players

Import players

* Dejan Miljanovic
* Matej Bogdanovic
* Marin Mikac
* Miljan Radovic

Local players

* Mohd Nizaruddin Yusof
* Yosri Dermaraju
* Mohd Fairuz Mohd Noor
* Syed Mohd Abdul Ghafar Syed Amir
* Mohd Sollahuddin Mohd Said
* Junaidi Daud
* Md Azril Abd Hamid
* K. Thiruventhan
* Mohd Fairus Alias
* Khairul Izwan Jamaluddin

Players with dual-nationalities

*/flagicon|Malaysia Martin Bek Nielsen

Coaches

tadium

The MBPJ Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Kelana Jaya, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. It is used mostly for soccer matches, and it also has facilities for athletics. The stadium was also once the home venue of Selangor MPPJ FC, and has a capacity of 25,000.

The stadium is situated in eastern part of Petaling Jaya (in the area of Kelana Jaya).

The stadium has around 550 parking lots which are located surrounding the stadium. The stadium has become the major landmark in Kelana Jaya because of its scale and magnificent architecture.

ee also

* MyTeam (Malaysian TV series)
* UPB (United Plantations Berhad) FC

External links

* [http://www.myteam.com.my/ Official MyTeam site]
* [http://www.myteamfc.com/ MyTeam Online Community site]