Media Statement for Partnership Ceremony
Saturday, 3rd April 2010
Hotel Royale Chulan - Bilik Tun Sri Lanang 1&2
Saturday, 3rd April 2010
Hotel Royale Chulan - Bilik Tun Sri Lanang 1&2
National Sports Council (NSC), MILO and the Malaysian Hockey Federation (MHF) have entered a partnership to formulate NSC & MILO as our two core official sponsors for the Junior Hockey League 2010 beginning Friday, 9 April 2010 until Sunday, 30 May 2010.
More importantly, this partnership between NSC, MILO and MHF reflects the commitment among the parties in promoting and development of hockey at the youth level especially players below Under 19 of years.
A total of eighteen (18) teams shall be participating in this year’s JHL. There shall be two (2) division i.e. 9 teams shall be placed at Division 1 and 9 teams in Division II. The teams based on the Divisions are as follows:
The new contenders that are playing for the first time are UniKL, MSN Sabah, MSSP-MPK Pahang and MBI-MSN Perak.
And for the first time in the Malaysian Hockey history, we have included a National Women (MWHA) side to play in the JHL 2010 in assisting them to prepare and provide good quality matches for their three important assignments which is the World Cup Qualifier in Chile, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games in the later part of 2010.
This JHL2010 shall be the catalyst for the players to perform and exhibits their potential to be selected for the National Junior and National Senior team. More so, this shall provide the players to be headhunted by the top Clubs by providing employment, sports playing contract and education via scholarship.
During the JHL2010, the Astro ARENA shall provide highlights of the matches over the weekend and the FINALS of JHL2010 shall be shown live on Astro ARENA.
We would like to thank especially NSC and MILO for being our main sponsors for the JHL2010 and also other sponsors such as Astro ARENA.
To the Media members, thank you very much for the coverage and as well as helping us in promoting hockey throughout the nation.
More importantly, this partnership between NSC, MILO and MHF reflects the commitment among the parties in promoting and development of hockey at the youth level especially players below Under 19 of years.
A total of eighteen (18) teams shall be participating in this year’s JHL. There shall be two (2) division i.e. 9 teams shall be placed at Division 1 and 9 teams in Division II. The teams based on the Divisions are as follows:
The new contenders that are playing for the first time are UniKL, MSN Sabah, MSSP-MPK Pahang and MBI-MSN Perak.
And for the first time in the Malaysian Hockey history, we have included a National Women (MWHA) side to play in the JHL 2010 in assisting them to prepare and provide good quality matches for their three important assignments which is the World Cup Qualifier in Chile, Commonwealth Games and Asian Games in the later part of 2010.
This JHL2010 shall be the catalyst for the players to perform and exhibits their potential to be selected for the National Junior and National Senior team. More so, this shall provide the players to be headhunted by the top Clubs by providing employment, sports playing contract and education via scholarship.
During the JHL2010, the Astro ARENA shall provide highlights of the matches over the weekend and the FINALS of JHL2010 shall be shown live on Astro ARENA.
We would like to thank especially NSC and MILO for being our main sponsors for the JHL2010 and also other sponsors such as Astro ARENA.
To the Media members, thank you very much for the coverage and as well as helping us in promoting hockey throughout the nation.
