Banjarmasin, S Kalimantan (Antaranews Kalsel) - Barito Putera football team officially contracted the twins Amiruddin Bagas Kaffa Arrizqi and Amiruddin Bagus Kahfi Alfikri or Bagas-Bagus, the stars of the Indonesian national team in the 2017 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Under-15 (U-15) Cup in Chonburi, Thailand.
According to the Manager H Hasnuryadi Sulaiman HB, both the twins and their friend Febrian are officially introduced to the supporters as the Barito's U-19 squad in its match against PS Tira on Monday (5/11) night at 17 Mei Stadium Banjarmasin.
"So we have officially stated that they joined the Barito Putera family," Hasnuryadi said here on Tuesday.
According to him, Barito Putera paid attention to the seeds of national footballers to continue their work competing in professional clubs.
"This is also in accordance with the ideals of the founders of the Barito Putera club (the late H Abdussamad Sulaiman HB) to create a reliable football player in this country," said the member of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI).
For him, the ideals of the founder of the club is a very noble thing for national sports, so that he as a successor will continue to be committed to realize.
As a concrete manifestation that has been carried out said Hasnuryadi, Barito's U-16 and U-19 soccer clubs have competed in national competitions and even made many achievements.
"Even more junior teams are taken by the national team and move to the senior level of the Barito Putera team," he said.
He also hopes that Bagas and Bagus will feel at home joining Barito Putera with a long duration or around 5 years.
"Later, the management will arrange and evaluate it, but I am very happy that they want to join our team, this will be the pride and new idol of the South Kalimantan people," he said.
Meanwhile, Bagas stated that he and his brother chose to join Barito because they were interested in his strategy.
"We are also interested in this club because it has a strong religious element," he explained.
He acknowledged a number of other clubs, such as Bali United and Persebaya, offered to join, but their parents' decisions and they chose to dock at Barito Putera.
"We are proud to be a big family of this club, especially trained by Jackson F Tiago, a former national team coach," he concluded.
