Esad Sejdic
Personal information | |||
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Place of birth | Yugoslavia | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
– | FK Novi Pazar[1] | ||
1992–199? | Perak FA[1] | ||
199?–1994 | Negeri Sembilan FA[1] | ||
1994–1995 | Hong Kong Rangers FC[1] | ||
1996 | Balestier Central | ||
1997 | Woodlands Wellington FC | ||
2000 | Tampines Rovers FC | (5[2]) | |
2001 | Woodlands Wellington FC | ||
Teams managed | |||
2014 | Admiralty FC[3] | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Esad Sejdic is a Yugoslavian former footballer.
Football career[]
Back in 1996, Singaporean club Balestier Central got the attackers' services where he scored the first-ever S.League goal, netting it in a match confronting Police FC.[1] One week later, he made the S.League's first hat-trick in a 4-1 win, with his club coming third by the end of the season.[1] Signing for Woodlands Wellington in 1997 with Croatian , their applications were rejected by the ; in response, they asked FIFA to allow their documents, who in turn forced the Association to repay the player, with Sejdic's extra money amounting to 40700 Singaporean dollars.[4] The S.League supporters also wrote splenetic responses to the newspaper, saying that Sejdic should play.[5]
Violating Muslim ordinance by being in the same house with an Islamic woman without being a Muslim himself, the Yugoslavian was released by Negeri Sembilan in 2004.[6]
Other[]
Owning three to four restaurants in Singapore, two went bankrupt in 2015 and he had to reduce one restaurants staff to four full-timers in 2016 following the hookah ban.[7]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f "Esad Sejdic, Telling It Like It Is: From glorious goals to embarrassing crowds". FourFourTwo.com. 20 June 2017. Archived from the original on 8 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
- ^ "Singapore S-League 2000 (Soccerbot)". www.Soccerbot.com. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
- ^ "fas.org.sg" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-10-09. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
- ^ "Google Groups". groups.Google.com. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
- ^ "The New Paper, 20 January 1999, Page 36". nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
- ^ "nlb.v.sg". v.sg. Retrieved 15 October 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Businesses preparing for worst following end of shisha sales". TNP.sg. 29 July 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
- Association football forwards
- Serbian football managers
- Living people
- Serbian expatriates in Singapore
- Expatriate footballers in Singapore
- Singapore Premier League players
- Balestier Khalsa FC players
- Hong Kong Rangers FC players
- Woodlands Wellington FC players
- Negeri Sembilan FA players
- Serbian footballers
- Serbian expatriate footballers
- Serbian expatriates in Malaysia
- Serbian expatriates in Hong Kong
- Perak F.C. players
- Expatriate footballers in Malaysia
- Expatriate footballers in Hong Kong
- Tampines Rovers FC players
- FK Novi Pazar players