The jack of all trades


Wan Jamak (right) was coach of the Malaysian football team for the 1997 SEA Games in Jakarta.

HE MAY not have played that memorable night when the Malaysian soccer team beat South Korea to qualify for the 1980 Moscow Olympics but Wan Jamak Wan Hassan certainly was a utility player the squad could not do without.

“I could play in a few positions in defence as centreback or leftback but there was no chance for me in the first team.

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