00:00Singapore, the guy that played for Singapore, the video I sent you, the guy who talks about he tried to
00:06sign for JDT, then the government got involved. Have you not seen that? No. No. That's crazy, bro. God bless
00:13my algorithms. I get some crazy videos.
00:15Weeks later, I actually flew to Johor and underwent a four-week trial, which went really well. And at the
00:23end of the day, they decided to offer me a contract, which I was very happy about. So the next
00:26step for me was to submit all of my documents to them so they could apply for a Malaysian passport
00:30for me. Obviously, my application process was fast-tracked, so TMJ actually wrote a letter to the government stating that
00:38he would like to have me as a local player and stuff like that.
00:41So we tried our best to get it done quickly. But unfortunately, at the time, there were some political issues.
00:46He actually qualified and chose to play for Singapore at a junior level. And then the Singapore government asked him,
00:54you have to choose between your German passport or become a Singapore citizen.
00:59So in another video, he talks about if he's a Singaporean, he has to go for that basic training of
01:05two years. I don't think he wanted to do it. The national service.
01:08So he didn't want to do it. He didn't want to give up his passport. So he decided to go
01:13back to Germany. I applaud his honesty. I'm actually very grateful that he's told the truth. But this is also
01:19the problem when you hand out passports to this kind of situations where some people will exploit it. It's the
01:27truth.
01:27And some people will be honest like him and say, you know, I didn't want to do this. But he's
01:32brave to say things or what happened. We don't know if it's true or not. Those are not our words.
01:36We found this on social media, right? And we just played it because we wanted to show you context on
01:40how we can avoid such situations here in the future.
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