Jalil Che Din
Jalil Che Din (27 July 1934 – 15 November 1992 born in Gelugor, Penang) was a Malaysian football player and coach.[1][2]
As a centre-half, he represented the Penang, Perak and Malaysian national football team in the 1950s.[1] With the national team, Jalil winning the first 2 Merdeka Tournaments in 1958 and 1959.[1][3][4][5] After injury cut short his playing career, he turned into coaching. He was assistant coach of Malaysia under Dave McLaren from 1970 to 1971, and they guided Malaysia to success in the qualification to the 1972 Munich Olympics football competition. In the final tournament, Jalil takes over from McLaren and oversaw 1 win (3-0 against United States) and 2 defeats (0-3 against West Germany, 0–6 against Morocco) from 3 group games.[6][7][8][9] Nevertheless, this remains one of the greatest achievements of Malaysia football as it is the only appearances of the national team in the Olympics.[10]
Later, Jalil returned to coach Malaysia in 2 other stints: which he helped the team won in 1974 Merdeka Tournament and won bronze medal in the 1974 Asian Games.[11][12][13] The last stints, he make a comeback to trained national team in 1981 after the failure of Malaysia in the 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification under Karl Heinz Weigang.[14]
By profession, Jalil was a prison officer under Malaysian Prisons Department, and for most of his life was working in Taiping Prison, and was Prison Director at Simpang Renggam Prison. Jalil died in 1992 aged 59, caused by heart attack while playing golf in Batu Pahat.[15]
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- ^ "Merdeka Tournament 1959 (Malaya)". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ XX. Olympiad Munich 1972 Football Tournament - RSSSF
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- ^ "Asian Games 1974"-RSSSF.
- ^ Maurice Khoo (29 June 1974). "Really, what's wrong with our forwards?". Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ^ "Gangsa Di Sukan Asia 1974" (in Malay). Legasi Lagenda. Archived from the original on 17 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ S.C. Sekaran (1 October 1981). "Coach Jalil keeps his job". Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ^ Bernama (16 November 1992). "Jalil dies of heart attack". Retrieved 6 February 2014.
