Indra Sahdan Daud

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Indra Sahdan

Full name	Indra Sahdan Daud
Date of birth	March 5, 1979 (1979-03-05) (age 29)
Place of birth	Singapore
Height	172 cm
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Home United
Number	3
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997-2000 2001-	Geylang United Home United	? (?) 147 (100)
National team²
2000-	Singapore	82 (26)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of February 1,2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of July 12,2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Indra Sahdan Daud (born 5 March, 1979 in Singapore) is a professional footballer who is currently playing for Home United as a striker .

[edit] Club career

Indra started out his professional playing career, graduating from the academy ranks of Geylang United FC at the Bedok Stadium in the S.League. He then signed for Home United in 2001.

He became the first local player to score 100 (total) S.League goals in 2003 and also became Singapore highest paid local player when he extended his contract with Home United in the same year.

He has a knack for scoring against top teams such as Manchester United, Uruguay, Japan and Denmark among others. He also had a training stint at Chelsea FC in 2003 as part of a deal with Emirates Airline.[1]

He is the face of Nike (Singapore) together with other national team players like Khairul Amri and Hariss Harun as part of Nike's advertising campaigns such as the 2007 Asean Football Championship, formerly known as the Tiger Cup and also the launch new national teams.

On 11 July 2007, it was reported in a local tabloid that Indra had been offered trials from Melbourne Victory and Real Salt Lake [2] but after weeks of speculation, nothing came out of it.

[edit] Trials with Real Salt Lake

Indra underwent a successful trial with the American MLS club Real Salt Lake in Miami, Florida from 14 to 24 Feb 2008; scoring two goals in four starts. The Home United striker is then invited to join Real Salt Lake on their 2 weeks pre-season tour to Rosario, Argentina, beginning on the 1st of March, for three exhibition matches. This invitation comes in view of the MLS side offering Indra a contract for the upcoming season.

Indra Sahdan's agent, Dave Roberts, is quoted to describe Indra's chances of getting the contract as "Excellent", after his conversation with the club's general manager, Garth Lagerway. If the transfer do go through, Indra will become Singapore's only third footballer to be playing outside of Asia, following Fandi Ahmad and V. Sundramoorthy.

However, Indra was not offered a contract by RSL coach Jason Kreis. [3]

[edit] International career

Considered one of Southeast Asia's most lethal strikers, Indra was part of the squad that won the Tiger Cup for Singapore in 2005 and 2007.

While playing for the Singapore national football team against Malaysia in May 2006, Indra suffered a freak ligament injury which sidelined him for the rest of the year. His comeback came in the King's Cup in December 2006 in Thailand when he put on commendable performances.

With national team captain, Aide Iskandar dropped from the national side for the friendly against UAE, Indra took over the armband and led the side to a credible 1-1 draw. Indra is also vice captain for his club, Home United.

On 9 November 2007, just hours before the kick off of the World Cup 2010 qualifiers against Tajikistan, then-captain of the national team, Aide Iskandar sensationally retired from international football, and handed down the skipper's armband to Indra.

Although he is on a scoring streak for his club in the S-League, Indra is on a goal-scoring drought in the international stage. His last goal for Singapore came in the group stage game of the 2007 ASEAN Football Championship against Indonesia, back in January 2007.