taken from http://www.mysinchew.com/node/13264?tid=14
as much as i love to read it, i’d like to share it.

As promised, we’re going to talk about, yes, Malaysian football again.

We begin with this simple task. Just take a look at some of the names of the players in our national teams when we were a football force. At least in Asia a long time ago.

In the 1950s and early 60s,we fielded the likes of Abdul Ghani Minhat, Arthur Koh, G.Govindaraju, Robert Choe, Edwin Dutton, Stanley Gabriel.

Abdul Ghani was rightly nicknamed Raja Bola or Football King.He and his teammates did justice to the yellow and black stripes jersey of Malaya. They were real Tigers.

Moving on, the Malaysian team which won the Merdeka soccer tournament in 1968 comprised the Abdullah brothers, Namat and Shaharuddin, Wong Fook Chuan, N.Thanabalan, Zulkifli Norbit and skipper Abdullah Nordin.. Just to name a few.
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