Suhandi
Personal information
Full name Muhammad Suhandi bin Haji Awang Mahali
Date of birth (1985-05-04) 4 May 1985
Place of birth Brunei
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2008 QAF
2008–2014 MS ABDB (1)
2015 DPMM 0 (0)
2016–2018 MS ABDB 4 (0)
International career‡
2012 Brunei 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 March 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 July 2019

Soldadu Muhammad Suhandi bin Haji Awang Mahali (born 4 May 1985) is a Bruneian footballer who last played for MS ABDB of the Brunei Super League as a goalkeeper.[1] He is a five-time Brunei FA Cup winner and a member of ABDB's championship squad on two occasions.[2]

Club career

Suhandi was part of the QAF FC squad in 2004.[3] He started playing for the football team of his employers the Brunei army in 2008.[4] He won the majority of his FA Cup medals in his early years while competing the goalkeeper spot with Tarmizi Johari,[5] but they were luckless in the league that was dominated by QAF FC and later Indera SC.[6]

On 1 February 2013, Suhandi scored a penalty in the 82nd minute in the 2012–13 Brunei Super League game against Najip FC which finished 11–1 to MS ABDB.[7] This made Suhandi the third goalkeeper to score a goal in a league fixture in Brunei, after Fakhrul Zulhazmi Yussof and Mu'izzuddin Ismail.

MS ABDB started the 2014 Brunei Super League with a 3–2 loss to LLRC FT on 2 February.[8] Days later Tarmizi Johari, who had started the game, signed a professional contract with DPMM FC, enabling Suhandi to become the starting goalkeeper for the Armymen.[9] In his third league match, he let in a free kick by Syarafuddin Hamdi Talip slip between his legs in a 0–1 reverse at the hands of MS PDB.[10] These two defeats along with another loss to eventual champions Indera SC a month later would cost ABDB the title with Suhandi only keeping five clean sheets in 15 appearances.[11] (Another clean sheet was attributed to Zulfadhli Matassan as Suhandi served a suspension for a red card against Majra FC.[12])

At the start of the 2015 season Suhandi found himself replacing Tarmizi as the third-choice keeper behind Wardun Yussof and Azman Ilham Noor in the DPMM ranks.[4] This turned into an uneventful stint for Suhandi, failing to make a single appearance even on the bench, while back at ABDB Tarmizi managed to finally win the league with only four points dropped in the 2015 Brunei Super League.[13] Suhandi was released from DPMM in early 2016 along with Amalul Said.[14]

Suhandi returned to the MS ABDB ranks in late 2016, but by that time there were already three keepers in the squad along with the signing of former youth international Burhanuddin Edy Asmady earlier in the year.[15] Nevertheless, he managed to appear in four matches for the 2017–18 season (another title-winning season for MS ABDB) before being deregistered soon after.[16]

International career

Suhandi made his international debut for the Brunei national team as a substitute on 26 September 2012 against Indonesia national football team in a 5–0 loss, playing the last 15 minutes of the game.[17] He was listed by the Wasps for the 2012 AFF Championship qualification matches in the following month, but did not make the cut.[18]

Honours

MS ABDB

References

  1. ↑ "MS ABDB win 1-0 against Wijaya in DST S-League". The Brunei Times. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "MS ABDB win DST Super League". Borneo Bulletin. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "Wijaya Batters QAF FC In B-League". Borneo Bulletin. 12 October 2004. Archived from the original on 2 December 2006. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 "DPMM FC all set for new season". The Brunei Times. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "RBAF Keeps FA Cup". Public Relations Unit, Ministry of Defence of Brunei Darussalam. 17 April 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "Brunei - List of Champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "MS ABDB menang bergaya". Media Permata. 1 February 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "MS PDB start season with win". The Brunei Times. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  9. ↑ "DPMM FC ink new deals". The Brunei Times. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  10. ↑ "Policemen outgun MS ABDB". The Brunei Times. 12 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  11. ↑ "Brunei 2014". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 19 February 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  12. ↑ "10-man MS ABDB edge Majra". The Brunei Times. 27 April 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  13. ↑ "MS ABDB champions". The Brunei Times. 24 October 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  14. ↑ "DPMM FC looking for first win of the season". The Brunei Times. 27 February 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  15. ↑ "MS ABDB DST SUPER LEAGUE 2016". MS ABDB. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  16. ↑ "MS ABDB FOOTBALL TEAM: 2017". MS ABDB. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  17. ↑ "Painful lesson for Brunei". The Brunei Times. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  18. ↑ "PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION OF PLAYERS – BRUNEI". ASEAN Football Federation. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
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