Haji Rahimni bin Haji Pundut (born 5 January 1987) is a

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an former

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who played as a striker. Due to a typing error, his patronym is often mistakenly referred to as Pundat.

Career

Rahimni previously played for professional club

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in the

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season, DPMM's first and eventful season in

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after withdrawing from the

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. He only saw one minute of playing time, against

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on 6 July. He was on the bench for the final of the

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, picking up a winner's medal as DPMM won the game 4–3 on penalties after a 1–1 draw in extra time. Rahimni moved to Setia Perdana in 2011 for the Brunei National Football League, a competition ran by the newly established

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to determine the teams for a new league that was to become the 2012–13 Brunei Super League. His club finished third in the one-off league, placing them in the

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. On 31 May 2015, Rahimni scored a three-minute hattrick in a 4–2 victory against

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. Previously, Qamarul Ariffin Hifni achieved this feat for March United in a 9–3 win against IB Pandan in the 2005 B-League Premier Two. Rahimni finished the 2015 season as top scorer for the Brunei Premier League with 16 goals. Rahimni scored a total of seven goals to lift Setia Perdana to first place in the 2017 Brunei Premier League. This brought promotion for Setia to the

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Honours

Team

;DPMM FC *

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

;Setia Perdana *

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Individual

* 2015 Brunei Premier League top scorer - 16 goals

References

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* 1987 births Living people Bruneian Muslims Men's association football forwards Bruneian men's footballers DPMM FC players {{Brunei-footy-bio-stub