La'Vere Lawrence Corbin-Ong (born 22 April 1991) is a Malaysian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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side

Johor Darul Ta'zim Johor Darul Ta'zim Football Club or simply JDT is a professional Association football, football club based in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. The club was founded in 1972 as PKENJ FC and currently competes in the top division of Malaysian football ...

and the Malaysia national team.

Early life

He was born in

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, England, where his parents, Lawrence Corbin (Barbadian) and Elizabeth Ong (Malaysian Chinese), were studying psychiatry and nursing respectively. Corbin-Ong was one year old when his family moved to

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, the capital city of

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. When he was four years of age, his family moved to North Vancouver, where he was raised. He played a variety of sports in his youth, including football,

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, gridiron football and

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. Corbin-Ong was six years old when he started playing football for the Lynn Valley SA. He played for

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in Canada for a season after high school, then joined the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency program. In 2012, he was set to attend the

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and join their

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soccer team, but while waiting for the new season in five months went to Europe, where he got a tryout with German fifth tier side FC Pommern Greifswald.

Club career

Whitecaps Reserves

Corbin-Ong spent two years playing for the Whitecaps Reserves team, making 29 appearances for the club in 2010 and 2011, when the team competed in

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Germany

Corbin-Ong spent two seasons with FC Pommern Greifswald in the Oberliga Nord, and another two seasons with

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in the Regionalliga. After receiving interest from

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club

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in 2015, Corbin-Ong signed with

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in the

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in June 2016.

Go Ahead Eagles

Corbin-Ong joined

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side Go Ahead Eagles on 3 July 2017. He was plagued by injuries during his time with the Eagles.

Johor Darul Ta'zim

On 24 November 2017, Corbin-Ong was signed by

Malaysian Super League The Malaysia Super League ( ms, Liga Super Malaysia) is the men's top professional football division of the Malaysian football league system. Administered by the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership (FMLLP), now known as the Malaysi ...

club

. Due to Corbin-Ong's mother being from Malaysia, he was classified as a local player.

International

Corbin-Ong was born in London to a Barbadian father and a Malaysian Chinese mother, but moved to Canada at the age of one and is therefore eligible to play for

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and

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internationally. In March 2017, Corbin-Ong received his first call-up to the Canadian national team. He made his international debut when he came on a second-half substitute in a 1–1 friendly draw with

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. In June 2019, Corbin-Ong made his

debut after starting in the friendly match against

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. He was allowed to switch allegiance to Malaysia as his previous appearance for Canada was in a friendly match. He scored his first international goal for Malaysia in the FIFA World Cup Qualifier against

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which Malaysia won 7–1.

Career statistics

International appearances

International goals

:''As of match played 26 September 2022. Malaysia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Corbin-Ong goal.

Honours

Johor Darul Ta'zim * Malaysia FA Cup:

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* Malaysia Cup:

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, 2022 *

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, 2022 *

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