Aide Iskandar

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Aide Iskandar

Full name	Aide Iskandar
Date of birth	May 28, 1975 (1975-05-28) (age 33)
Place of birth	Singapore
Height	182 cm
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Geylang United FC
Number	5
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996-2005 2005-2007 2006 2007-present	Home United Johor FA →Tampines Rovers (loan) Geylang United	? (?) ? (?) 18 (1) ? (?)
National team²
1995-2007	Singapore	120 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of November 10,2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of November 10,2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Aide Iskandar (born May 28, 1975, in Singapore) is a professional soccer player who played for the Singapore national football team. Aide was the captain of the team which won the Tiger Cup regional soccer championship 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.

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.