Talk:K. Rajagopal (footballer)

Name
Is it K. RajagoPal or K. RajagoBal? I'm getting confused here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.138.42.199 (talk) 15:22, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

K. Rajagopal
Datuk K. Rajagopal, (Rajagopal Krishnasamy) (Tamil: கி.ராஜகோபால்; born July 10, 1956) is a Malaysian football manager and former professional player. He is currently the head coach of Malaysia and former Under-23 Malaysia coach.

Rajagopal has also appeared as a football pundit for Malaysian satellite television network Astro, including the first episode in August 2009 of the FourFourTwo TV Show.

As manager
Rajagopal started his coaching career in 1990 with PKNS FC. He also had stints as club coach with Selangor FA and Kelantan FA.

He was made the national coach for the young Malaysia U-20 team from 2004 until 2006; and the Malaysian U-19 (known as Harimau Muda A) in 2007 to 2009. Under his guidance, Harimau Muda A became the Premier League champion in 2009. Since July 2009, he is the head coach for both the Malaysian national and the Malaysian U-23 squad.

Rajagopal is best known for guiding Malaysia's Under-23 side to its first gold medal in 20 years at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Laos where the team defeated Vietnam 1–0 in the final on December 17 after earlier knocking out 8-time defending champions, Thailand, in the group stage. After the victory, Rajagopal earned the nickname "King Gopal". In July 2009, Rajagopal coached Malaysia in two games against English champions, Manchester United, losing in both matches 2–3 and 0–2. He also led Malaysia national football team to win the AFF Suzuki Cup in 2010.

His philosophy of changing the tactical approach from a defensive to offensive playing style has been rewarded. His young team has shown a high standard of football possession, good defensive structure and clinical finish en route to clinch the AFF Suzuki Cup although his side lost their main charismatic and influential defender (Aidil Zafuan)and many more potential young players.

He put down his career on 20 November 2013 as he fails to manage Malaysia's Under-23 from being qualified in the Asian Cup after he failed to conduct Malaysia's team in grouping preliminary.He had made many experiments on Malaysia' team that led to failure.

Awards and recognition
On June 4, 2011, K. Rajagopal was awarded the Panglima Jasa Negara (P.J.N) which carries the title Datuk in conjunction with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong's birthday, 2011. He was among 67 recipients of the awards from His Majesty Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin at Balairong Seri, Istana Negara.

Malaysia

 * ASEAN Football Championship
 * Winners (1): 2010


 * SEA Games
 * Winners/Gold medals (1): 2009 SEA Games

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Requested move 12 July 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: move to K. Rajagopal (footballer). (closed by non-admin page mover) feminist (talk) 03:07, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

– It does not appear that, as far as the English-speaking world is concerned or anywhere beyond Malaysia, the Malaysian football manager is held in such high regard that his prominence exceeds the combined notability of Singaporean film director and screenwriter K. Rajagopal (director), Indian educator Kuderu Rajagopal and award-winning K. Rajagopal (film editor). — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 19:38, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * K. Rajagopal → K. Rajagopal (football manager)
 * K. Rajagopal (disambiguation) → K. Rajagopal
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. GiantSnowman 11:22, 13 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Support move to K. Rajagopal (footballer) as is standard for managers who were initially players. GiantSnowman 11:25, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * As nominator, I would also support K. Rajagopal (footballer), per GiantSnowman. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 20:48, 13 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Support to footballer as discussed. Note that the closing admin will need to fix the 143 incoming links, even though such fixes do not require the admin bit. -- JHunterJ (talk) 00:42, 20 July 2020 (UTC)