Short stint: Nazmi Faiz Mansor during a training session with Portuguese Division One side Beira-Mar.
PETALING JAYA: The story of goalkeeper Chow Chee Keong is the stuff of legend. He donned Malaysian national colours at the age of 15, turned pro early in the 1970s and strutted his stuff in Hong Kong where they embraced him as their own.
Even Brazil were willing to embrace him as one of their own, asking him to play for Cruzeiro with Brazilian citizenship but Chee Keong said no, and stayed a Malaysian to his death.
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