Yeap Cheng Eng
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| International career | |||
| Malaya | |||
| China | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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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
[edit]- ^ One Enchanted Moment. New Straits Times. 30 December 1992.
- ^ "The forgotten Olympians | The Star". Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
- ^ "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.
External links
[edit]- Profile at the Penang State Government Archived 23 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
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