Mohamad Syarafuddin Hamdi bin Haji Talip (born 8 October 1987) is a

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an former

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who played as a defender. He is currently with the

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team of

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Club career

A career police officer in the

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, Syarafuddin started playing league football when his employers entered a soccer team to compete in the Brunei football leagues in 2011, namely

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. Having helped secure his team's participation in the inaugural

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, Syarafuddin also managed to score in the semi-final of the Brunei Darussalam National Games' football tournament on 12 September as team captain. The policemen ultimately lost to the

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in the final. Later in December of that year, MS PDB managed to get to the semi-finals of the 2012

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but lost in penalties to

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, even though Syarafuddin greatly contributed ''en route'' by scoring in the two previous rounds. Syarafuddin played in the first ever fixture of the

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on 14 December 2012, which was eventually won by

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. MS PDB finished fifth in the 10-team league that season, with Syarafuddin occasionally playing as a target striker. MS PDB would perform modestly in the next two seasons, finishing in the lower half of the Super League table. Syarafuddin transferred to

in 2017, after a brief stop at

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where he won the Tutong District League. The Brunei international scored his first goal for Kota Ranger on 8 July against

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in a 3–2 win. He helped Kota Ranger to finish second behind

at the conclusion of the 2017–18 season. In the following year, he managed to collect his first Brunei FA Cup medal by beating his old club MS PDB in the final.

International career

Syarafuddin was a Bruneian youth international who was selected for the

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held in his home country. He played in two group games against the

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and

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. He was dropped to the bench for

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in the final group game against

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in which the team lost 3–1, eliminating the hosts from the knockout phase via number of goals scored. Syarafuddin made his senior international debut as a substitute in a 5–1 loss against

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on 6 June 2015. Two years later, he was bound for the island of Sumatra for the

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held in

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in early December. He took the field in a 4–0 defeat to

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in the first game. His most recent involvement with the national team was as assistant coach to

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for the

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matches against

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in 2019.

Coaching career

While still registered as a player, Syarafuddin coached the team starting from the

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. He became head coach full time the next year, competing for the

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Honours

Team

;Tutong Hotspurs FT * Tutong District League: 2017 ;Kota Ranger FC *

: 2019

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Syarafuddin Hamdi Talip 1987 births Living people Bruneian Muslims Bruneian police officers Futsal defenders Men's association football defenders Bruneian men's footballers Brunei men's international footballers Kota Ranger FC players Brunei Super League players