Back Passt With Ras

In the fifth episode of our second season on Back Passt X Balestier Khalsa, we interview two members of the Balestier Khalsa FC Women's Team, Nur Sabiah Bte Suhardi and Shazana Ashiq. We start with an ice breaker between the two. We find out about their pre-season preparations and any new and exciting talents in the squad to look forward to and ask Shazana how she got the opportunity to play f...

In this episode, we speak to two Manchester United fans, Ram Ranai, one part of The PLot Malaysia and Muhammad Fadzli about United's Treble winning season of 1998-99.  These are the topics of discussion: 1. 1997-98 & the summer signings of 1998 2. Road To The Treble 3. Clinching The Treble 4. Sir Alex & Steve McClaren 5. The Years After: 2000-2002 6. Where Is Manchester United Today?...

In the fourth episode of our second season on Back Passt X Balestier Khalsa, we interview Balestier's latest signing, Iqram Rifqi and club captain, Ho Wai Loon.  We ask Iqram about how he got the offer to join Balestier and what made him take it up, we ask him about which team-mate he is glad to have on his side now instead as an opponent and we find out why he has not started the first two m...

In the third episode of our second season on Back Passt X Balestier Khalsa, we interview Balestier's latest foreign signings, Fabian Kwok & Mukundan Maran. We start with an ice-breaker for both players. We find out what convinced them to join Balestier Khalsa and if they are coming into the season on the high of winning the Singapore Cup with their previous club, Hougang United or on a clean s...

In the second episode of our second season on Back Passt X Balestier Khalsa, we interview Balestier's latest foreign signings, Alen Kozar and Masahito Sugita.  We find out about how they feel ahead of the season and what fans can expect from them this season. We ask Masahito Sugita about how his career panned out that he played in Singapore and ask Alen how he ended up in Singapore.  In...

In the first episode of our second season on Back Passt X Balestier Khalsa, we interview the head coach, Peter De Roo.  We find out about how he built the squad for the upcoming Singapore Premier League (SPL) season - what changes he needed to make after last season, how he came to a decision on who to keep from last season and who to sign, how the new players complement the ones from last se...

In our first episode of 2023, we speak to Chelsea fans, Adam Hamizan and Kalvinder Gill, who is returning for the second time on the show to speak about Jose Mourinho's era at Chelsea.  Points of discussion: 1. Players - pivotal players, under-rated players and players that flopped 2. Trophies - the first league title that was won and another triumph from Mourinho's first spell at the club 3....

In the second part of our episode with Singapore legend, Fandi Ahmad, we resume looking back at his time in Kuala Lumpur followed by his move to Pahang to form part of the Dream Team. Then we revisit his return to Singapore to be part of another Dream Team, the start of his time in the S-League with Geylang United and his retirement at SAFFC. In the final part, we look at the beginning of his coac...

In the first part of our episode with Singapore legend, Fandi Ahmad, we look back at his playing career in Holland, Indonesia and the start of his time in Malaysia with Kuala Lumpur FA.  Find us here on various platforms: https://linktr.ee/backpasstwithras You can buy us a pizza as well at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/backpasstras

We speak to Harikishin Samanadas from The PLot Malaysia as we review the Round of 16 and preview the quarter-final. Find us here on various platforms: https://linktr.ee/backpasstwithras You can buy us a pizza as well at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/backpasstras

This we speak to Antonio Codinach, a former TV pundit at ESPN/Star/FOX Sports and Lee Chun Hang, who is currently hosting a show called Gol Per 90 on Astro Arena in Malaysia.  We discuss the continued curse of European World Champions with Germany's early, shock elimination. We then move on to the performance of the host nation, Russia, Japan's unusual passage to the 2nd Round and look at som...

We speak to Sivan John from The Bola Bola Show as we look back in-depth at the group stage and briefly preview the Round of 16.  Find us here on various platforms: https://linktr.ee/backpasstwithras You can buy us a pizza as well at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/backpasstras

This week we speak to the head coach, Peter De Roo as we review the recently concluded Singapore Cup and look at the league campaign when he was in-charge of the team.  Find us here on various platforms: Back Passt With Ras - https://linktr.ee/backpasstwithras Balestier Khalsa FC - https://www.facebook.com/balestierkhalsa https://www.instagram.com/balestierkhalsa/?hl=en https://twitter.com/FC...

We speak to Sivan John from The Bola Bola Show, returning for the third time in this series and for the first time ever, Suffian Zain from FWENS TV. We get into our respective memories of this World Cup first before getting into the curse of the European World Champions suffered by Spain. We then speak about Costa Rica and any other surprise teams in the World Cup. We then discuss the teams that w...

This week we speak to a returning guest, Raphael Reich who was there in Germany at the time of this World Cup and Muhammad Fadzli and Azmi Danuri from This is Calcio! podcast.    We learn from Raphael about the atmosphere around the stadium and in Germany during this World Cup and ask Fadzli and Azmi for their memories of this World Cup.   We then find out who they would name a...

This week we speak to a member of the Balestier Khalsa Women's team, Syafiqah Peer who was recently called up for the Singapore National Women's Team and the head coach of the Balestier Khalsa Women's team and the assistant coach of the Singapore National Women's Team, Ratna Suffian.  We find out from Syafiqah her reaction to receiving the call-up and what it was like going into the national...

We speak to an ex-professional footballer and pundit in Singapore, Benoit Croissant and the other half of The PLot Malaysia, Ram Ranai this week.  We try and understand the French public's reaction to France's struggles in the late 80s and early 90s and their expectations going into France 98.  Then we tap on what Ram and Benoit remember of that time in their life, the teams that surpris...

We received an unexpected and surprise guest, a player that played at USA 94 for the host nation, current Philippines men's national team manager, Thomas Dooley. Joining him was a guest that we missed during our recording due to a family bereavement, Lubis Ratno. We spoke about the reaction of the American public towards the World Cup, the preparation of the American team leading to the World Cup,...

This week we speak to two young talents, Puvan Raj and Hariysh Kumar. First we revisit the epic win over Lion City Sailors (LCS) on Sunday with Hariysh, as we probe to find out more about what was said by the head coach at half-time and the reaction of the players on the bench to the goals. We ask both of them about how they felt they played in the U21 team as individuals and as a team.  In t...

We speak with a couple of returning guests, Sivan John from The Bola Bola Show and Harikishin Samandas from The PLot Malaysia.  We start the show by sharing our memories of watching the World Cup in 1994 and what we knew of the USA as a football team leading to the World Cup and how they did in this World Cup as hosts.  We then spoke about the teams that surprised us in the tournament an...

This week we speak to three players that were called up for the senior (Ho Wai Loon) and U21 (Aidil Johari & Ryan Praveen) Singapore national teams during the recent international break in September 2022.  We first find out about their reaction to being called up for the national team. In the case of Wai Loon, it was his first call-up since 2018 so we find out what the differences were be...

We speak with a returning guest, Andrea Trevisi who is an Italian and was a resident in Italy at the time of this World Cup and two fans from Singapore, Lubis Ratno and Sivaram. Lubis runs the Football Network SG group on Facebook and Siva is a big Bayern Munich, Germany and Bundesliga fan.  Andrea spoke about the development of the infrastructure and stadiums in Italy leading to the Wor...

We start the show on a solemn note as we pass our condolences to the late FAS President, Mr Lim Kia Tong.  We speak to Serbian centre-back, Ensar Bruncevic this week and get an update on his injury and try to understand the general procedure when a player gets injured.  We try and find out what he can share on his so-far brief experience of working with the new Head Coach, Peter De Roo....

We speak to Balestier Khalsa's U17 Head Coach, Leonard Tan and Captain, Irfan Siregar. We find out about how the squad was formed, their pre-season preparations, the coach's philosophy and tactics, the challenges of the players in managing life as a student and footballer, the choice of captain and the challenges the head coach faces.  We get Irfan to describe his coach, we get them to analys...

We speak to Balestier Khalsa's new Head Coach, Peter De Roo this week.  We find out how he got to know of the job vacancy at Balestier and what convinced him to take up the job. The difference between the role of a Technical Director and Head Coach, the difficulties of coming in the final phase of the league season to work with a squad he inherited.  We then got him to describe himself a...