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—
PSSI
officially announced collaboration with
Indra Sjafri
as coach of the U-23 Indonesian National Team ended at the end
SEA Games 2025
.
Chairman of the PSSI National Team Banda (BTN) Sumardji announced this at the Mandiri Tower, Tuesday (16/12).Termination of this collaboration was carried out after an evaluation was carried out.
“We agreed to carry out an evaluation, the first is to end, I repeat again, the end of the working relationship between coach Indra Sjafri and PSSI, and the federation,” said Sumardji.
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“So, regarding the termination of the employment relationship, of course the rights and obligations are in accordance with the agreement, in accordance with the existing contract, it is obligatory for us to both exercise our rights.”
The decision to end cooperation with Indra cannot be separated from Garuda Muda’s poor performance at the 2025 SEA Games. Indonesia failed to qualify for the group stage, even though its squad was promising.
Ivar Jenner and friends lost 0-1 to the Philippines in the opening match, then won 3-1 over Myanmar.This one win does not make Indonesia qualify for the semifinals.
This is a very minor result, considering that this team’s preparation was quite long.In fact, it has been prepared since December last year, namely since the 2024 AFF Cup.
Indonesia featured players with the U-23 squad in the 2024 AFF U-23 Cup which ended up not qualifying for the group stage.This team then won the runner up position in the 2025 AFF U-23 Cup with Gerald Vanenburg.
After that, he failed to win a ticket to the 2026 U-23 Asian Cup finals. Vanenburg was finally replaced by Indra for the 2025 SEA Games. Four international trial matches served as preparation.
Even though they had prepared for a very long time, with a change of coach, back to back efforts for gold failed to be achieved.Therefore, PSSI decided to terminate Indra Sjafri’s contract.
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