Hassan Sani

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Datuk Hassan Sani
Personal information
Full name Hassan Sani
Date of birth (1958-08-31) 31 August 1958 (age 65)
Place of birth Labuan, Malaysia
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1974–1976 Sabah FA
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1977–1984 Sabah FA 133 (55)
1985–1987 Kuala Lumpur FA 42 (18)
1988–1992 Sabah FA 47 (18)
Total222(91)
International career
1978–1986 Malaysia 30 [1] (14)
1996–1999 Malaysia Beach Football Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hassan Sani PGDK (born 31 August 1958) is a former Malaysian football player. [2]

Contents

Career Overview

He played for Sabah and Kuala Lumpur in the Malaysian League and Malaysia Cup in the late 1970s and in the 1980s. Hassan start representing Malaysia in youth competition from 1977–1978. He brought into the senior team in 1978 by Karl Heinz Weigang. He is remembered as a member of the potent strike force comprising the likes of Mokhtar Dahari and James Wong (another player from Sabah). He was called "lipas kudung" because of his agility and was a member of the Malaysia squad that qualified for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow after defeating South Korea in 1980 Asian Olympic Qualifying Tournaments. [3] [4] [5] Unfortunately, Malaysia did not go as it joined the US-led boycott towards Soviet Union for its role in supporting the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen.

Further career

In 1996, Hassan join Malaysia national beach soccer team and played in the 1999 Beach Soccer World Championship as well. [6] In 2015, he together with Wong was appointed as one of the members for the management team of Sabah FA. [4]

Honours

Sabah
Kuala Lumpur

International

Individual

Order

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