Penang want Puskas Award winner to concentrate on football


Fresh faces: Penang football team manager Zairil Khir Johari (centre) and coach Ashley Westwood (fourth from left) posing with the new signings at the City Stadium yesterday. — WAN MOHIZAN WAN HUSSEIN/ The Star

GEORGE TOWN: The Football Association of Penang (FAP) have reiterated they will limit the non-football events for 2016 FIFA Puskas Award winner Faiz Subri when he returns from Zurich today.

The 29-year-old Faiz won the top prize for the most beautiful goal scored at the FIFA awards ceremony in Switzerland on Monday night.

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