UPB-MyTeam F.C.


UPB-MyTeam Football Club is a defunct Malaysian football club which formerly competed in the top tier of Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super League. The team's home stadium was the Stadium MBPJ, in Petaling Jaya.
The club as it exists today was the result of a merger of UPB Football Club and MyTeam prior to the 2006–07 Malaysian football season.

History

Launched in 2006, the TV3 reality TV series MyTeam brought together a squad of soccer players from around Malaysia with no professional playing experience known as "MyTeam". The show followed the team as it was selected through trials and then trained and coached by the former Malaysian international footballer Shebby Singh, before taking on the Malaysia national football team in an exhibition match. MyTeam lost 2–1 to the national team in the exhibition game on 28 May 2006. The show generated considerable interest. MyTeam was subsequently invited to join the Malaysia Premier League for the 2006–07 season.
UPB FC was an ailing football club sponsored by the Malaysian United Plantations Berhad company, based in Teluk Intan, Perak. The club was poised to "go the way of the dinosaur" before the politician Khairy Jamaluddin, who along with radio DJ Jason Lo was the co-creator and Executive Producer of the MyTeam series, decided to take over the club and form a base for MyTeam to become a professional competitive team. The name UPB-MyTeam FC was adopted upon UPB FC's management's request. Khairy Jamaluddin and Jason Lo became the club's President and Deputy President, and Bojan Hodak of Croatia was hired to become the team's coach.
UPB MyTeam FC finished the 2006–07 Malaysia Premier League season as runners-up behind PDRM FA, and as a result were promoted to the Malaysia Super League 2007-08 season.
A second season of the reality TV show, MyTeam2, was broadcast in 2007. Three players from MyTeam2 have joined the UPB MyTeam FC squad for the 2007–08 Malaysian Super League season.
UPB MyTeam FC held a trial on 1 and 2 November 2008 at Stadium Bukit Jalil to select 17 players for the 2008 President Cup. Unfortunately, after a period of financial struggle, the club was dissolved at the end of 2009 season. Currently, the club management has decided rebuilt to the club with the same name and reported to join the Selangor FAS State League in 2013.

Honours

Officials

Club Management
NameNationalityRole
Khairy Jamaluddin Abu BakarPresident/Chairman
Jason LoDeputy President/Vice Chairman & Team Manager
Ruben Emir GnanalingamVice President
Martin Bek-Nielsen/Vice President
Muhammad Yakub HussainiVice President & Assistant Manager
Dax MuhamadGeneral Secretary
Al-Naliq HasmiAssistant General Secretary
T. KunaseelanGeneral Secretary
Aqliff Shane CaseyHonorary Treasurer
Safirul Azli Abu BakarMedia Officer
Ismail IbrahimInventory Manager
Shamim ImranMatch Analyst
Herman AntoniKit Man

Technical Staff
NameNationalityRole
Jason LoTeam Manager
Bojan HodakHead Coach
Khan Hung MengAssistant Head Coach
Abdul Rashid HassanGoalkeepers Coach
Luiz Pablo PozzutoTrainer/Motivator/Analyst
Jacob JosephPresidents Cup Team Coach
Mohd Azrilreza AzmanPhysiotherapist

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Coaches