Mohd Azraai Khor Abdullah




This is a Malay name; the name Abdullah is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Mohd Azraai Khor. The Arabic word "bin" ("b.") or "binti"/"binte" ("bt."/"bte."), if used, means "son of" or "daughter of" respectively.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Khor (许).















































































































Azraai Khor Abdullah
Personal information
Full name
Mohd Azraai Khor Bin Abdullah
Date of birth
(1952-10-25) 25 October 1952 (age 66)
Place of birth
Kedah, Malaysia
Playing position
Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Negeri Sembilan FA(Head coach)
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1969–1980
Kedah FA
32
(3)
1981–1986
Kilat Kedah FC (FAM Cup)
33
(19)
National team
1975–1978
Malaysia

Teams managed
1991
Kedah President's Cup
1992–1993
Kedah FA (Assistant Coach)
1994
Kedah President's Cup
1998
Kedah President's Cup
2002
Kedah President's Cup
2002
TNB Kelantan FC
2004–2009
Kedah FA
2010
Harimau Muda A
2011–2012
Negeri Sembilan FA
2012–2013
Perak FA
2014
T–Team
2015
Kelantan FA
2015
Sabah FA
2018–
Negeri Sembilan FA

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Mohd Azraai Khor Bin Abdullah, formerly known as Khor Sek Leng, (Chinese: 许锡龙; pinyin: Xu Xi Long; born 25 October 1952) is a Malaysia football coach and former player.


Azraai, whom one of the most successful coach in Malaysia when he considered to be one of the best football coaches and he has also won more trophies than any other coaches in the history of Malaysian football especially when he brought Kedah FA to be a legendary football team in Malaysia when they crowned as a double treble champion - a champion for all three major football competitions.




Contents






  • 1 Personal life


  • 2 Playing career


  • 3 Coaching careers


    • 3.1 Early careers


    • 3.2 Kelantan TNB FC head coach


    • 3.3 Kedah head coach


    • 3.4 Successive 'double treble'


    • 3.5 After Kedah




  • 4 Honours


    • 4.1 Coaching


      • 4.1.1 Kedah


      • 4.1.2 Negeri Sembilan


      • 4.1.3 Kelantan FA


      • 4.1.4 Personal






  • 5 Quotes


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Personal life


Khor Sek Leng was born in Alor Star, Kedah has been reverted to Islam in 2001 and changed his Muslim name to Mohd Azraai Khor Abdullah. Azraai now lives with his wife Rohani Ibrahim, eldest son Mohd Firdaus (age 16), daughters Siti Fairuz (15) and Nur Azryena (5) at their resident in Alor Star.



Playing career


He was a Kedah FA player for Malaysia Cup competition and also was in Kedah Kilat FC (a team of Tenaga Nasional Berhad or formerly known as Lembaga Letrik Negara Tanah Melayu before 1990) for FAM Cup competition from 1969 until 1980. He played as midfielder, right winger and also has skippered the team. Azraai also was a former part of Malaysia national team in the period of 3 years starting from 1975 until 1978.



Coaching careers



Early careers


In 1991, at the age of 39 Azraai was appointed head coach of Kedah FA President Cup team. He worked as part of the club's youth team for several years - 1991, 1994, 1998 and 2002. However his glorious career began eighteen years ago in 1993 when he and his colleague, Azman Haji Eusoff was just an up-and-coming tactician, assisting Robert Alberts to create history with a bunch of great players included his assistants now Muhamad Radhi Mat Din and Ahmad Sabri Ismail, from the second division title without losing in 1992 to clean sweep of the domestic football titles in 1993 – Division 1 (the now renamed Malaysia Super League) and Malaysia Cup.



Kelantan TNB FC head coach


Before return to Kedah, Azraai has previously managed Kelantan TNB FC in 2002 when he was an employee of Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), an electricity company in Malaysia.



Kedah head coach


After late Ahmad Basri Akil brought him in August 2004, with his fantastic "Midas Touch", Azraai gives a miracle for Kedah state football environment after they've been dropped to the last place in 2004 Malaysia Super League competition. Kedah on that time handled by Mirandinha. After Mirandinha left the job, Azraai who returned to Kulim from Kelantan as a full-time TNB employee on that time has rejuvenated the team and creates fantastic achievements in Malaysia Cup competition when he led Kedah through to the 2004 Final, but they lost 1-0 against Perlis FA.



Successive 'double treble'


Azraai now became the only coach, to win double treble champions in successive 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons. After he clinched the third cup in Malaysian football arena, coach Azraai also regarded the 2006/07 Malaysian Favourite Coach Award in 100Plus-F.A.M National Football Awards as an additional motivation after his team won three titles - Malaysian FA Cup, Malaysian Super League, and Malaysia Cup in 2006/07 season and also as a boost for the future of football in Kedah and in the country.
And a few hours before he creates another historical moment of Malaysian football on 23 August 2008, he once again awarded as the 2007/08 Malaysian Best Coach Award in the same awards after Kedah retained the 2007/08 Malaysian Super League and Malaysian FA Cup trophies for second consecutive times. Azraai deserved the awards after his Kedah wonder boys won the Malaysia Cup final defeated Selangor FA with 3-2 result.



After Kedah


He resigned from Kedah after the 2009 season, which Kedah failed to scale the heights of the previous two seasons, mainly because of the loss of his influential import players due to new ruling by FAM. His problems with the new management team also led to his departure.[1]


He was appointed the head coach of Harimau Muda A in 2010,[2] but resigned later in the year after confrontation with the team's technical personnel and players during the squad training stint in Slovakia.[3]


In 2011, he was named as the new head coach of Negeri Sembilan FA, replacing Wan Jamak Wan Hassan (who ironically took over as head coach of Azraai former team Kedah later that season).[4] Although Negeri Sembilan results were in dire when he took over, he improved the team's fortunes. The pinnacle of the season was where he led Negeri Sembilan to the 2011 Malaysia Cup triumph, beating Terengganu FA 2-1 in the final.[5]


On 15 October 2012, he was announced as Perak FA new coach. Signing a 2-year contract, Azraai resigned from his job in October 2013 after only one season, in which he guides Perak to seventh place in the league, but failed to lead Perak out of the group stage of 2013 Malaysia Cup, which includes a 6-1 thrashing by Sarawak FA.[6][7]


On 14 November 2013, he was officially unveiled as the new T-Team F.C. head coach.[8] Azraai resigned from his job at the end of July 2014, after T-Team were relegated to Malaysia Premier League.[9]


On 24 March 2015, Azraai was appointed as the new head coach for Kelantan FA replacing George Boateng who was appointed as Technical Director.[10] However three months later, Azraai resigns from his position, with only one win in seven league matches and losing in the 2015 Malaysia FA Cup final to LionsXII.[11][12]


Azraai was announced as the new head coach of Sabah FA in September 2015, his 1-year contract beginning on 1 October.[13] But less than a month later, he mutually terminated his contract with Sabah.[14]
And now 28 February 2018 he was signing again with Negeri Sembilan FA for replace current Head Coach Jorg Streinbrunner after weak result in starting season.



Honours



Coaching



Kedah




  • Malaysia Super League: 2006/07, 2007/08


  • Malaysia Premier League: 2005/06


  • Runner-up: 2005



  • Malaysia FA Cup: 2006/07, 2007/08


  • Malaysia Cup: 2006/07, 2007/08


  • Runner-up: 2004


Negeri Sembilan




  • Malaysia Cup: 2011


  • Malaysia Charity Shield: 2012



Kelantan FA



  • Malaysia FA Cup:

  • Runner-up: 2015


Personal


100Plus-F.A.M National Football Awards



  • 2006/07 - "Malaysian Favourite Coach"

  • 2007/08 - "Malaysian Best Coach"



Quotes



  • "To be a champion we must act like a champion." - Fokus Bola, 12 July 2007


References





  1. ^ Video on YouTube


  2. ^ Video on YouTube


  3. ^ http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/PenggantiAzraaidiputuskanhariini/Article/


  4. ^ http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/AzraaisahjurulatihbaruNegeriSembilan/Article/


  5. ^ http://www.espnstar.com/football/asian-football/news/detail/item699116/Azraai-hails-Negeri-Sembilan-veterans/


  6. ^ http://www.goal.com/en-my/news/3896/malaysia/2013/10/20/4346121/azraai-khor-resigns-as-perak-head-coach


  7. ^ http://sg.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-defeat-never-imagined-azraai-khor-laments-loss-032520334--spt.html


  8. ^ http://www.nst.com.my/sports/soccer/azraai-picks-t-team-1.400268


  9. ^ http://www.nst.com.my/node/17698


  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-24.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  11. ^ http://www.espnfc.com/blog/football-asia/153/post/2511896/kelantan-coach-azraai-khor-resigns


  12. ^ http://www.goal.com/en-my/news/3896/malaysia/2015/07/07/13364012/azraai-khor-blames-the-invisible-hands-that-caused-him-to-resign-


  13. ^ http://www.fourthofficial.com/2015/21046/official-azraai-khor-appointed-as-new-sabah-head-coach/


  14. ^ http://www.goal.com/en-my/news/3896/malaysia/2015/11/07/17071412/safa-and-azraai-khor-part-ways?ICID=AR_RS_1




External links


  • Mohd Azraai Khor Abdullah Official Website










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