ipcfoot 3...An old picture of Ramadass Rao, then 17 years old, shaking the hand of Malaysias first Agong Tuanku Abdul Rahman at Merdeka Stadium after scoring two of the three winning goals for his Perak football team which won Perak the last Malaya Cup in late 1957. On the Kings right is Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. Starpix by Lew Yong Kan/280807/Ipoh/Christina Koh
MANY people think Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, our first prime minister, became president of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) because he was the prime minister.
Actually, the Tunku became president of FAM long before he became prime minister, and chief minister before that.
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