Mohamad Ashari bin Samsudin (born 7 June 1985) is a retired

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who mainly plays as a

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but can also play as a

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and an

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. Ashari has a great dribbling skill with a good vision and pace in the game making him one of the fan's favourite in the team.

Club career

Terengganu

Originally from Bukit Payong,

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, Ashari started his career with

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youth team. He was promoted to Terengganu's senior team during the 2007-08 Super League Malaysia. He showed impressive playing style as he netted 9 goals in his debut season. He is consistently scoring for

. He was second top scorer in the 2009 season with 17 goals, one goal behind the winner

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. He goes one better in the 2010 Super League Malaysia season, winning the Golden Boot while scoring 18 goals. In the 2011 league season, he scored 10 goals. Among his achievements with Terengganu is winning the 2011 Malaysia FA Cup and defeating

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in the final on 11 June 2011. He also was the top scorer in the

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2008 football tournament held at Terengganu, where he helped the Terengganu youth team win the gold medal. In the 2012 Malaysia League Cup Final, he scored the opening goal for his team in a 2-1 loss to Negeri Sembilan.

Pahang

On 7 November 2016, it was announced that Ashari signed a one-year contract with

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International career

His performance in the national league in 2008 attracted the national coach at that time,

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, to take him into Malaysia national squad. Ashari made his international senior debut for

against

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on 22 July 2008. Ashari scored his first international goals in

6–0 trashing of

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in the 2008 Merdeka Tournament, where Ashari scored twice. In November 2010, Ashari was called up to the Malaysia national squad by coach K. Rajagopal for the

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. Ashari scored 1 goal from outside penalty box for Malaysia against

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in the first leg of the final to secure a 3–0 win, and helping Malaysia en route to win 4-2 on the aggregate the AFF Suzuki Cup for the first time in their history.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

Honours

Club

Terengganu *

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International

Malaysia

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Individual

2010 Malaysia Super League --> , biggest home win = Selangor 6–0 Johor(26 January 2010) , biggest away win = Penang 1–6 T–Team(5 July 2010) , highest scoring = Terengganu 6–3 Johor(21 April 2010) , matches = 182 , total goals = 4 ...

Golden Boot (18 goals)

References

External links

* * {{Malaysian Super League top scorers 1985 births Living people Malaysian footballers Malaysia international footballers Terengganu FC players Sri Pahang FC players People from Terengganu Malaysia Super League players Association football forwards Association football wingers Malaysian people of Malay descent