Yeap Cheng Eng
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 1914 | ||
Place of birth | British Malaya | ||
Date of death | 1994 | ||
Position(s) | Left Winger | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1934–1958 | Penang | ||
National team | |||
Malaya | |||
China | |||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Yeap Cheng Eng | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 葉清榮 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 叶清荣 | ||||||||||
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Yeap Cheng Eng (1915 – 14 January 1994)[1][2] was a Chinese footballer. He was the first Malayan ever to participate in the Olympic Games, when he was a member of the football team which represented the China as a guest players in the 1948 Olympic Games in London.[3]
In Malayan domestic football, he represented Penang for a record 24 years and was their captain for many years, winning the Malaya Cup in 1953, 1954, and 1958 (at the age of 42).[4][5][6]
References[]
- ^ New Straits Times, 30 December 1992
- ^ The forgotten Olympians | The Star
- ^ "Yeap Cheng Eng". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ "The 27th HMS Malaya Cup Final 1953". Malaysia Football Museum. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "Meraikan 100 Tahun Piala Malaysia – Final 1954 – Pulau Pinang V. Singapura" (in Malay). Legasi Lagenda. Archived from the original on 11 September 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ "Meraikan 100 Tahun Piala Malaysia – Final 1958 – Pulau Pinang V. Singapura" (in Malay). Legasi Lagenda. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
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Categories:
- Malaysian people of Chinese descent
- Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Malaysian footballers
- Olympic footballers of China
- Chinese footballers
- China international footballers
- 1915 births
- 1994 deaths
- Association football forwards
- Malaysian football biography stubs
- Chinese football biography stubs