Balakrishnan said during the training stint, the national squad will play a match against the Uzbekistan national team and three other club teams.

"Such matches are important to give the players a feel of real matches as training alone will not be enough to face a real match situation," he told reporters at Wisma FAM here Monday.

He added that the set of players he had now was a combination of young and senior players.

"I have a set of thinking players who can make decisions during the match instead of relying on instructions from the coach.

"The national futsal squad has come a long way since being whipped 11-0 by Thailand. Recently, though we lost to them, the margin was very small," he said.