Aide Iskandar
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Aide Iskandar | ||
| Date of birth | May 28, 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Singapore, Singapore | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Sengkang Punggol | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1996–2005 | Home United | 135 | (16) |
| 2005–2007 | Johor FA | 23 | (2) |
| 2006 | → Tampines Rovers (loan) | 18 | (1) |
| 2007–2008 | Geylang United | 43 | (0) |
| 2009 | Sengkang Punggol | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1995–2007 | Singapore | 121 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of November 10, 2007. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Aide Iskandar (born May 28, 1975, in Singapore) is a professional soccer player who plays for Sengkang Punggol and was once the captain of the Singapore national football team, which he led to consecutive Tiger Cup wins in 2005 and 2007. He was also a member of the Singapore team which won the Tiger Cup in 1998.
[edit] Football career
He spent 10 years with Home United FC in the S-league before opting to join Johor FA in the Malaysian League in November 2005. He then went on loan at Tampines Rovers FC for the 2006 season in Singapore. For the 2007–08 season, he moved to Geylang United FC.
He made it to the latest FIFA Century Club list on 17 May 2007.
In September 2007, he was banned for five games and was fined SGD$2500 for insulting the referee after his team, Geylang United lost controversially to Home United by conceding two goals in the final five minutes. It was reported in the papers that he said, "How much did you bet on the game, ref?.[citation needed]
Because of that incident, he was dropped from the national team for the game against UAE and missed the World Cup qualifier against Palestine. However, he was recalled up on Tuesday following the notice that Aide's five-match S.League ban has been suspended pending the player's appeal.[1]
On November 9, 2007, just hours before the kick off of the World Cup 2010 qualifiers against Tajikistan, he sensationally retired from international football, and by doing so, he handed the skipper's armband to Indra Sahdan Daud.[2]
In April 2008, it was announced that Aide would become the Technical Director of a proposed A.C. Milan Junior School which would begin operations in Singapore late 2008.[3] Aide is also a fan of the Italian Serie A club.
Aide has joined Sengkang Punggol for the 2009 S.League season as a player and assistant coach, in a similar position as Mirko Grabovac the previous season.
In a strange repeat of history, coach Jorg Stienebruner was sacked by the Hougang-based club and Aide has been elected caretaker coach by the club.
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| Preceded by Nazri Nasir |
Singapore Captain 2003–2007 |
Succeeded by Indra Sahdan Daud |
