The Maltese Football National Team

Much has been said and will continue to be said about the meagre results obtained by the Maltese National team, with the last win in an official game dating back to October 2007 in a 2-1 home win against Hungary. To commemorate this special event, a special edition DVD was made available… this just goes to show how rare a Maltese win is. Many remember the Malta-Turkey match held on the 7th of September 2007… an electrifying atmosphere with a rarely seen packed stadium supporting their Maltese heroes for 90-minutes non-stop. The end result was a merited 2-2 draw with the Maltese also going close to clinching what would have been a well-deserved win.

So all-in-all one cannot say that the Maltese national team cannot produce good football and memorable results but what is certainly lacking is consistency from several viewpoints. The Maltese national team always starts off slowly mainly due to a inferior complexity which results in the team conceding a goal at the initial stages of the game, then making it difficult to catch-up and try and achieve a positive result and a goal too. Unfortunatly Malta hasn’t yet scored a goal in the qualifying matches for the World Cup 2010 but at least managed to gain a hard-earned home draw against Albania on a cold February night. Another point is the fitness of the Maltese national players. The ones that play abroad in one way or another always seem to last the whole match but the local players seem to last approximately 60 to 70 minutes than run out of gas. The attitude of the Maltese national players in general is questioned; some find the physical exercises too tough and at times show a lack of respect towards the national coach. It is attitudes like these that should be eradicated once and for all and all involved in the Maltese national team should have one aim: that in unison they should strive to achieve positive results! Small nations like ours have made it, why not us then?