The Malaysian Football League (MFL) will stick with the February 26 Malaysian league kickoff date for the 2021 season, despite developments in the country this week.
In a media release it published on Wednesday, its CEO Dato’ Ab Ghani Hassan expressed his belief that the earlier-planned kickoff date will not need to be pushed back.
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Ab Ghani Hassan. Photo from MFL
Earlier this week, the Malaysian government announced that six Malaysian states; Selangor, Federal Territories (Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Labuan), Melaka, Johor and Sabah have been put under the strict Movement Control Order (MCO) again in order to combat the rising Covid-19 cases, from January 13 to January 26.