Fandi bin Ahmad ( born 29 May 1962 ) is a Singaporean association football coach and former professional player.

Fandi has five children with his wife, South African model Wendy Jacobs, and his father is Ahmad Wartam, a former national goalkeeper.

Fandi left Pelita Jaya in March 2010., Fandi is a scout for Italian club Vicenza Calcio, a regional project manager for the Genova International Soccer School, and runs the Fandi Ahmad Academy, which organises training programmes and overseas opportunities for talented young Singaporean footballers.

Fandi is one of seven Singaporean coaches with a professional AFC coaching diploma, and is widely considered a future national coach ; he declined an offer to manage the Singapore LIONSXII team in the Malaysian Super League.

He is the first Singaporean sportsperson to be the subject of a biography, which was released in 1993 and called The Fandi Ahmad Story.

Products Fandi has endorsed include Royal Sporting House sportswear, Uncle Tobys cereal, Carnation milk and energy drink Isomax.

* date unknown – Anant Fandi, Marathi Shahir poet-singer ( b. 1744 )

With the Singapore national football team, Fandi won 101 caps, scored 52 goals, won three Southeast Asian Games ( SEA Games ) silver medals and was captain from 1993 to 1997.

He managed SAFFC and Pelita Jaya ( Indonesia ), served as assistant national coach and runs the Fandi Ahmad Academy.

As a 1994 winner of the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat ( state medal ), the first Singaporean footballer to play in Europe, the first Singaporean millionaire sportsperson and first Singaporean sportsperson to have a published biography, Fandi has been called a national legend.

As a young child, Fandi was obsessed with football and spent much of his time kicking a ball.

Fandi started playing as a goalkeeper, but was advised by a teacher to switch to midfield.

At Serangoon Gardens Secondary School, Fandi played for the school football team, but neglected his studies and was retained.

Fandi joined Singapore FA in 1979 and became a regular midfield player, scoring four goals in his first Malaysia Cup season.

The retirement of Arshad Khamis and Dollah Kassim prompted Jita Singh, the new Singapore FA coach, to play Fandi as a striker.

During the 1980 Malaysia Cup season, Fandi scored eight goals, including the winning goal in the final against Selangor FA.

In 1981, Fandi won the FAS Footballer of the Year award for helping Singapore FA reach the Malaysia Cup final.

The following year, Singapore FA did not play in the Malaysia Cup for political reasons, and Fandi underwent a shoulder operation ; he could not play football for six weeks and was discharged early from National Service.

Selangor FA invited Fandi to play for them against Argentine club Boca Juniors in a friendly game, in which Fandi scored the only goal for Selangor FA ; the score was 2 – 1.

Fandi received offers from several Malaysia Cup teams, Indonesian side Niac Mitra, Swiss club Young Boys and Dutch side Ajax.

After a three-week trial, Ajax offered Fandi a three-year contract, but Fandi instead signed a one-year contract with Niac Mitra, where he spent one season, helped them successfully defend their Galatama League title and was the third-highest scorer with 13 goals.

In a friendly match between Niac Mitra and Arsenal, Fandi scored a goal in a 2 – 0 victory ; however, he left Niac Mitra due to a sudden Galatama League ban on foreign players.

In 1983, Fandi moved to the Netherlands and signed a two-year contract with FC Groningen.

The Groningen fans voted Fandi the most popular player and the most skilful player that season ; he scored 10 goals in 29 games to help the Dutch club rise from ninth to fifth place in the Eredivisie.

As an April Fools ' Day joke, The Straits Times published a front-page story claiming that Manchester United had signed Fandi.

During his time in the Netherlands, Fandi scored 11 league goals in 36 league games for Groningen.

The next club that Fandi played for was Malaysia Cup side Kuala Lumpur FA, which in 1987 won its first Malaysia Cup title.

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