IT was almost at the tail-end of a whirlwind tour of Europe that Robert Choe, at one time one of Malaya’s most iconic inside-forwards, missed the opportunity to train at Real Madrid’s hallowed ground, the Bernabeu.
With Real’s training complex on Madrid’s outskirts, Ciudad Deportiva still under construction, Robert and fellow forward Abdul Ghani Minhat (later Tan Sri), were given the opportunity to visit the Bernabeu in February 1963.
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