KUALA LUMPUR: His own team of coaches and support service, choosing the tournaments he wanted to play in and acquiring his own sponsors. These were the three "unrealistic" requests made by world No. 7 Lee Zii Jia that Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) could not meet and which eventually led to his decision to quit the national team. The BAM deemed these requests as "impossible to fulfil" and eventually turned him down. "Since he handed his resignation letter (on Jan 11), many concerted efforts were made by us through several informal discussions with Zii Jia to reconsider his decision. "However, it was not successful," said BAM deputy president II Datuk Seri Jahaberdeen Mohd Yunoos, who's also the chairman for the legal advisory committee. "Zii Jia stood by his decision and he gave the following reasons. "Firstly, he said that he cannot stand the pressure in the national squad, and that the l