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Ahmad Paijan is a former
Singaporean Singaporeans are the citizens and nationals of the sovereign island city-state of Singapore. Singapore is home to a people of a variety of ethno-racial-religious origins, with the city-state itself being a multi-racial, multi-cultural, m ...
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ...
who played for
Tiong Bahru Tiong Bahru is a housing estate and subzone region located within Bukit Merah planning area, in the Central Region, Singapore, Central Region of Singapore. Tiong Bahru was constructed in the 1920s by the Singapore Improvement Trust, the predeces ...
and
Terengganu Terengganu (; Terengganu Malay: ''Tranung'', formerly spelled Trengganu or Tringganu) is a sultanate and States and federal territories of Malaysia, federal state of Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, ''Dāru l-Iman (c ...
.National Library of Singapore.
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Career

He had successful career with Singaporean sided, Tiong Bahru went he won 5 titles with them. After joined Malaysian sided, Terengganu, he helped the team won Malaysia Division 2 league in 1990. In the 1992 season, he carried the team to recorded their highest ever finish in the Division 1 league when they finished as runner-up to
Pahang {{Infobox political division , name = Pahang , official_name = Pahang Darul Makmur , native_name = , settlement_type = States and federal territories of Malaysia, State , image_skyline = , imagesize ...
. In late 1995, he became the second Malaysian
naturalised Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth. The definition of naturalization by the International Organization for Migration of the ...
player after
Razali Alias Razali Alias (17 September 1961 – 27 January 2012) was a Singaporean football player and coach. Playing career Club career Razali started his career with the Singapore FA team in 1977. In 1981, along with Tohari bin Paijan, Razali was fo ...
when he received his Malaysian citizenship after 13 years of playing for Terengganu. Thus, Terengganu registered him as a local player in 1996 but he couldn't represent Malaysia because he had played for Singapore national team.


Honours


Club

;Tiong Bahru *
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Division One: 1983, 1987 *
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: 1982, 1985, 1987 ;Terengganu * Malaysia Division 2: 1990


References

Living people Singaporean men's footballers Singapore men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders 1964 births Naturalised citizens of Malaysia {{Singapore-footy-bio-stub