Former great Ali Bakar dies in Singapore


PENANG: Malaysian football has lost another of its favourites son. Former great Ali “Hulk Hogan” Bakar died yesterday the way he had always lived – playing football. 

The-56 year-old former international, a key member of the first Malaysian football side ever to feature in the Olympics in Munich in 1972, died of a heart attack he had suffered just minutes into a game in Singapore yesterday. 

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