Jelius Ating mula tugas bersama Sabah FC

Jellies during training on Tuesday. - Photo by Saba FC on FB

Jellies has returned to training for the Badak team

KOTA KINABALU. Coach Jelius Ating has taken charge of the Sabah Football Club after a good performance in the Super League yesterday while head coach Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto is away from the field for an indefinite period.

Jellies after training with the Sabah Football Club coaching staff on the artificial turf.

Gelius, who left the team earlier in the season, has finally been called up as the team's back-up manager, after team manager Marzouki Nasser announced on Monday that he would be sacked.

Last night, the manager was seen training with the Sabah FC players on the Likas Sports Complex artificial pitch and was accompanied by the coaching staff including interim boss Burhan Aju.

Sabah FC III (President's Cup) coach Johnny Dominicus was also in training and is expected to help the coaching staff following the cancellation of this year's President's Championship and Youth Cup.

Jellies' presence has been well received by the players and is said to be a good move by the coach to restore the current situation at Sabah FC.

A number of FC players who participated in training under Gellius.

At the same time, he selected three other players from the President's Cup squad for Sabah FC's senior team.

They are former U19 player Gerald Gadit, 22, and Sukma 2018 internationals Mohd Qizaz Lokman, 21, and Naeem Firdaus Stibbin, 22.

Gerald is a former student of State Sports School, Datuk Peter Mohuntin Vocational School and Kizaz is a former student of Pulau Penang State Sports School, Mutiara is a student of Impian Vocational School and was called up to the senior training squad at the start of the season. Season

All three were among the 7 players in the President's Cup squad called up to go with Sabah FC. The other four are Mohd Hanafi Tokio Hasim, Shahrizan Saeed, Nurizkhan Isa Jafar and Harith Naeem.

When he got a call back from Sabah FC, Jelius expressed his willingness to help the struggling side despite being at the bottom of the opposite league.

Jellies has been involved in training Rhinos since his appointment as the team's deputy manager.

"I will try to help those soldiers based on the faith of the fans," he said.

In the year Coach who successfully led "Sabah" to victory in 2019: Sabah is our team and I will definitely help.

However, he was forced to open his "football book" after not being in the team for several months since the start of the season, according to himself.

"Whatever happens is not a problem, of course I will help because this is our army," he said. - Eastern news