Azmin Azram Abdul Aziz (born 1 April 1976) is a former

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. He represented four state teams and one club team in his career. He also represented Malaysia from 1998 to 2004. Currently Azmin is the goalkeeping coach of

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club Công An Hà Nội.

Playing career

Azmin started his career with Kuala Lumpur FA youth team. In 2002, Azmin was call up for an international friendly match against five times World Cup winners

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. He was selected as one of the first eleven to play against Brazilian stars such as

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and Barca's

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. He was guided by former Malaysia goalkeeper, Abdul Rashid Hassan and Lim Chuan Chin. Under the duo's guidance, Azmin earned the status of Malaysia's number one goalkeeper from 2002 to 2004 before his place was taken by Mohd Syamsuri Mustafa. At the age of 30, he choose to retire after receiving knee injury. He has since worked as goalkeeper coach and scout talent at the National Sports Council.

Coaching career

Malaysia

On 4 April 2017, Azmin was chosen by head coach Tan Cheng Hoe to be part of his backroom staff where he was given the goalkeeper coach role until 16 February 2022.

Công An Hà Nội

In January 2023, Azmin joined Vietnamese club Công An Hà Nội as their goalkeeping coach.

Honours

Kuala Lumpur *

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: 1993, 1994, 1999 Selangor * Malaysia Premier 1: 2000 *

: 2001 *

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: 2002 Pahang *

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

Malaysia *

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runner-up:

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References

Living people Malaysian people of Malay descent Malaysian men's footballers Malaysia men's international footballers Selangor F.C. players Kuala Lumpur City F.C. players Sri Pahang FC players Negeri Sembilan FC players 1976 births Footballers from Selangor Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games Men's association football goalkeepers Asian Games footballers for Malaysia Expatriate men's footballers in Vietnam Malaysian expatriate sportspeople in Vietnam {{Malaysia-footy-goalkeeper-stub