Rochy Melkiano Putiray (born 26 June 1970) is an Indonesian former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a striker for

Indonesia national football team The Indonesia national football team () represents Indonesia in international men's Association football, football matches since 1945. The men's national team is controlled by the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI), the governing body fo ...

. He was likely the most recognizable player on the

due to his brightly colored and constantly changing hair. In his career, Putiray has played for Arseto Solo,

Dukla Prague Dukla Prague () was a Czech football club from the city of Prague. Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966–67 season, reached the semi-finals of the ...

Persija Jakarta Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Jakarta ( 'Indonesian Football Association of Jakarta'), abbreviated as Persija (), is an Indonesian professional Association football, football club based in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta. Persija Jaka ...

, Instant-Dict,

Kitchee Kitchee Sports Club (; ; ) is a Hong Kong professional Association football, football club based in Kowloon. It was founded in 1931 and currently competes in the Hong Kong Premier League. The club has won 12 List of Hong Kong football champion ...

and

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. He moved to Instant-Dict after being spotted by the

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club during the

Asian Cup The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior list of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the contin ...

Qualifier between Hong Kong and Indonesia. He helped Kitchee beat

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2–1 by scoring 2 goals during a friendly match in 2004. He graduated from Faculty of Law in Universitas Surakarta (UNSA), a university based in Surakarta, Indonesia. In 2012, he began to coach UNSA sport school, in his native Indonesia.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Indonesia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Putiray goal.''

Honours

Persis Solo * Galatama-Perserikatan Invitational Championship: 1987 *

Galatama Liga Sepak Bola Utama ( English: ''Premier Football League''), commonly known by its acronym Galatama, was a semi professional football league in Indonesia, established in 1979 by the Indonesian Football Association, PSSI. Prior to the establishme ...

: 1987 Instant-Dict *

Hong Kong FA Cup Hong Kong FA Cup () is a knockout cup competition in Hong Kong football, run by and named after The Hong Kong Football Association. The first edition of the competition was held in 1975, before then the cup was known as the Golden Jubilee Cup. T ...

: 2000–01 South China AA *

Hong Kong Senior Shield The Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield (), known commonly as the Senior Shield, is the football knockout inter-club competition held in Hong Kong and the fourth oldest football tournament in Asia. Traditionally, only teams that play in the Hong K ...

: 2002–03 Indonesia *

AFF Championship The ASEAN Championship (formerly known as the AFF Championship or AFF Cup), currently known as the ASEAN Hyundai Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the biennial football tournament organized by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) for men's natio ...

runner-up:

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

Southeast Asian Games The Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as SEA Games is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with sup ...

Gold Medal:

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

Individual * Asian Goal of the Month: April 1997

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Putiray, Rochy 1970 births Living people Sportspeople from Ambon, Maluku Indonesian men's footballers Indonesia men's international footballers Indonesian expatriate men's footballers 2000 AFC Asian Cup players 2004 AFC Asian Cup players Indonesian Christians arseto F.C. players persija Jakarta players dukla Prague footballers PSM Makassar players PSS Sleman players PSPS Pekanbaru players Sriwijaya F.C. players Double Flower FA players Kitchee SC players South China AA players Hong Kong First Division League players Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong Expatriate men's footballers in Czechoslovakia SEA Games gold medalists for Indonesia SEA Games bronze medalists for Indonesia SEA Games medalists in football Footballers from Maluku (province) Men's association football forwards Competitors at the 1991 SEA Games Competitors at the 1999 SEA Games Hong Kong League XI representative players