Cup clash of master and apprentice a show-stealer


Who will win?: Kuching City’s Irfan Bakti (left) and Terengganu’s Nafuzi Zain are set to face each other in the Malaysia Cup curtain-raiser.

KUALA NERUS: The Malaysia Cup curtain-raiser between Terengganu and Kuching City today holds the intrigue of a “master-versus-pupil” clash.

This is because Nafuzi Zain was once assistant to Kuching coach Irfan Bakti in 2017 before taking over as Terengganu head coach when his mentor Irfan stepped down during a turbulent period of the team in mid-2019.

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