Sumardi Hajalan (born 12 January 1985 in

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Career

Club

At club level, Sumardi spent most of his career at Sabah where he made his debut against Penang during the second leg of 2004 Malaysia FA Cup. He also played for Johor FC, Negeri Sembilan, and Perlis. He signed with Perak in 2015 but only made an appearances in the 2015 Malaysia Cup against

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International

At international level, Sumardi made his first appearances with Malaysia national under 23 team at the

2005 AFF U-23 Youth Championship The 2005 AFF U-23 Youth Championship was the first ever edition of the AFF U-23 Youth Championship, organised by ASEAN Football Federation. The tournament was held from 29 August to 7 September in Bangkok, Thailand. This tournament was also known ...

under Bertalan Bisckei. He became a regular with the Malaysia U-23 national team in 2007 under B. Sathianathan. He played in the 2007

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, in which he started as the first choice left back for the entire tournament as Malaysia won the trophy after 14 years. He also participated at the

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.Malaysian player Sumardi Bin Hajalan (R)
- gettyimages, 8 December 2007. He made his international senior debut in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers against Bahrain on 21 October 2007.

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* * 1985 births Living people Malaysian men's footballers Malaysia men's international footballers Sabah F.C. (Malaysia) players Perak F.C. players Negeri Sembilan FC players Footballers from Sabah Men's association football defenders {{Malaysia-footy-bio-stub