Hassan Sunny

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Hassan Sunny
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Personal information
Full name Hassan bin Abdullah Sunny[1]
Date of birth (1984-04-02) 2 April 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth Singapore
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Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Army United
Number 18
Youth career
2000–2002 National Football Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003 Geylang United 31 (0)
2004–2005 Young Lions 36 (0)
2006–2007 Geylang United 52 (0)
2008–2011 Tampines Rovers 51 (0)
2012–2014 Warriors 67 (0)
2015– Army United 29 (0)
International career‡
2004– Singapore 80 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 August 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:45, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Hassan bin Abdullah Sunny (born 2 April 1984) is a Singaporean professional footballer who plays for Army United in the Thai Premier League and the Singapore national team as a goalkeeper.

Club career

Along with Baihakki Khaizan, Shahril Ishak and Khairul Amri, Hassan was in the pioneer batch of the National Football Academy in 2000.[2]

Hassan has previously played for S.League clubs Tampines Rovers, Geylang United and Young Lions.

According to an interview with him done in November 2007, he only started playing football competitively when he was 10, captaining his school, May Primary School. He later went on to represent Braddell Secondary School football team as well.[citation needed]

Hassan started out in football as a midfielder, only switching to between the sticks due to an asthma attack he suffered when he was 12. He also quipped that his happiest football memory was that, back in 1999, he scored the winning goal from the halfway line in a game that ended 2-1.[3]

Hassan joined the Eagles from the Singapore U-18 team and quickly cemented his spot in the first team, earning an S.League Young Player of the Year nomination for his confident performances and knack of pulling off blinding saves.[citation needed]

In December 2011, Hassan joined SAFFC, after four years of service as Tampines Rovers' first-choice goalkeeper.

Hassan became the first goalkeeper to win the S.League Player of the Year award in 2014.[4]

Hassan joined Army United F.C. for the 2015 Thai Premier League season. He made his debut in a 1-0 win over Royal Thai Navy F.C..[5] After a series of games in good form Hassan excelled in a surprising 1-0 away win at Suphanburi F.C., handing the latter side their first home defeat of the 2015 season as well as giving Hassan man-of-the-match award. After the game Suphanburi player Jakkaphan Pornsai said Hassan's performance was the main reason Suphanburi lost the match.[6] In November 2015 Hassan signed a new two-year contract with the club.[7]

International career

A graduate of the National Football Academy, Hassan forced his way into the Singapore against India after a superb debut season with Geylang United in 2003.

With midfielder Shahril Ishak, defender Baihakki Khaizan and winger Muhammad Ridhuan, he is part of the 'NFA Gang of Four', the quartet which has played together since their early teenage years and earned senior international honours in 2003.

He kept goal for the U-23 team that participated in the 2003 South-East Asian Games in Vietnam, before joining the Young Lions for the 2004 S.League season.

His first appearance in a Lions shirt came in August 2003 when the young keeper replaced Rezal Hassan at half-time in a friendly against the Japan Olympic team.

He had to wait until 18 February 2004 for his first cap for the Singapore though, which came against India in a World Cup qualifier.

He has been a regular fixture in the national team, though only as a substitute for Lionel Lewis . However, due to his poor performances in the Merdeka Cup in 2007 with the Under-23 team, he was dropped for the friendly against UAE and Jasper Chan was called up in his place.

His fine display at the 2007 SEA Games helped the Singapore Under-23 squad win the bronze medal - their first SEA Games medal since 1995.

He performed extremely well in a World Cup Qualifier match against Saudi Arabia, but Singapore lost the match 2-0.

On 28 July 2008, Hassan played the first half as part of a Singapore Selection side in a friendly match against the Brazil Olympics Team and made outstanding saves against Diego and Alexandre Pato's shots, letting in only three goals.

On November 30, 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup, Sunny has become a subject of controversy after failing to defend his goalpost from Malaysian counterattack. Malaysia which leading 1-2 finishes the match with open-goal scoring, making the final result of the match 1-3, Sunny has become a subject of parody in the aftermath of the game by Malaysian fans.

Honours

International

Singapore

Clubs

Warriors FC

Individual

References

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External links

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