For these individuals - from Singapore's most sustainable bartender to Singapore's female Red Lions and the head honcho of iFly Singapore - their service to the nation played a pivotal role in each of their inspirational stories.
SINGAPORE - After a seven-year stint with the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), Singapore football legend Fandi Ahmad will be parting ways with the organisation following the completion of his contract as its head of elite youth on Thursday (June 30). In a press release, the FAS said both parties had mutually agreed on this arrangement after Fandi expressed his.
I've always followed the Singapore Premier League (SPL) watching the glory days of the SAF FC (pre-Warriors FC) and Tampines Rovers in the S-League, then the recent dominance of Albirex Niigata Singapore. But I have never attended an SPL game IRL…until last weekend, when I sat in the stands for the top-of-the-table clash between Lion City Sailors (LCS) and.
I've always followed the Singapore Premier League (SPL) watching the glory days of the SAF FC (pre-Warriors FC) and Tampines Rovers in the S-League, then the recent dominance of Albirex Niigata Singapore. But I have never attended an SPL game IRL…until last weekend, when I sat in the stands for the top-of-the-table clash between Lion City Sailors (LCS) and.
Instead, it s Lion City Sailors star Saifullah Akbar making it clear that he will not let his stature get in the way of fulfilling his lofty ambitions.
Standing just 1.65m tall, the gifted midfielder may be smaller than the average player, but with a fiery determination and unrelenting attitude, one wouldn’t bet against him realising his dream of representing juggernauts of European football in the coming years.
Courtesy of his father Akbar Nawas’ relationship with the game, the 22-year-old has been in love with football ever since he was a child.
“I started playing football when I was five. I remember my dad brought me to a street soccer court to play with the older boys,” Saifullah said in an exclusive interview with