“If I play a full match or not depends on the coach, but if the coach gives me minutes I want to try my best with my performance,” he said. “I always try my best and hopefully I can give everything tomorrow so that we can win. I want to give my best for the Indonesian people.

 

“We believe in each other, whoever is playing or not playing. We believe in our team. We win together, we lose together. Now we can play for third place and we believe we can win tomorrow’s match. It’s good for us if we can win and get the ticket to the Olympics.

 

“We’ve prepared ourselves so we can give our best performance. I don’t want to give the coach a bad performance. I want to give my best performance tomorrow so I will put everything on the pitch for sure and I can help my teammates and Indonesia win.”

Fahmy has featured in all of Indonesia’s matches so far, starting in the loss against Qatar as well as in the quarter-final with Korea Republic, which the Southeast Asians won in a shoot-out. He has also made appearances from the bench against Australia, Jordan and Uzbekistan

 

The Indonesians stand on the cusp of a new era with the country close to qualifying for the Olympic Games for the first time since 1956 while appearing in the latter stages of the AFC U23 Asian Cup on their competition debut.

 

Despite their youth, the bulk of the team have already featured for the senior national team – which is also coached by Shin – and Fahmy believes that familiarity is advantageous for the Indonesians.

“We have already been together as a team for a long time and we also have good players but we promise the Indonesia people that we can win tomorrow,” said the 22-year-old Persija Jakarta right-back.

 

“If we have the ticket for the Olympics we, of course, can make the Indonesian people proud. This would be history for Indonesia and we can give everything tomorrow for the Indonesian people, so we can win for them.

 

“I want to make it (to the Olympics) for the development of Indonesia. We try our best every day so that we can do it, so that we can go to the Olympics.”