Ong Kim Swee is a person synonymous with the Harimau Muda project, a past Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) program that was designed to group together the best young talents in the country for a sustained period in the aim of creating the next batch of players for the senior national team in the long run.
The program was discarded in 2015 but with the introduction of the FAM-MSN Project Squad yesterday, it saw a rekindling of the program albeit with various different subtleties. Having seen first-hand the kind of success that such a program can bring, Kim Swee is happy to see the program enabling the development of the type of players that are late bloomers.