Manzoor Azwira
Malaysian professional association football player and coach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Manzoor Azwira Abdul Wahid is a Malaysia professional football coach and former player, who is the current assistant manager of Malaysia Super League club Penang.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Manzoor Azwira bin Abdul Wahid[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1976-11-24) 24 November 1976 (age 47) | ||
Place of birth | Penang, Malaysia | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Penang (assistant manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
1994–1996 | Penang Youth | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1996–1997 | Penang | ||
1998 | TM Melaka | ||
1999–2001 | Perlis | ||
2002–2003 | Kedah | ||
2004–2007 | Perlis | ||
2007–2009 | Kuala Muda Naza | ||
2010–2011 | USM | ||
International career | |||
1993 | Malaysia U23 | ||
Managerial career | |||
2010–2012 | USM (player-assistant coach) | ||
2013–2016 | Penang (assistant coach) | ||
2016 | Penang (caretaker) | ||
2017 | Penang U-21 | ||
2018 | MOF | ||
2019 | Perlis Northern Lions | ||
2019–2020 | Penang | ||
2021–2022 | Penang (assistant coach) | ||
2022–2023 | Penang (caretaker) | ||
2022–2023 | Penang (assistant manager) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Manzoor was a midfielder in his playing era. Starting his playing career with Penang from 1996 to 1997, he spent the majority of his career with Perlis for two different stints, forming a part of Perlis Golden Era team that won the club's first league title in 2005, entering three successive Malaysia Cup finals from 2004 to 2006, which saw the team won twice in 2004 and 2006. He played for Kedah from 2002 to 2003 between his two stints with Perlis. After leaving Perlis, Manzoor had stints with Kuala Muda Naza in Kedah, and USM in Penang. He was also a member of Malaysian U23 national team that appeared at the 1993 Bangladesh President's Gold Cup.
After retiring as a player, Manzoor started his coaching career with USM as assistant coach, before joining Penang for the same role from 2013 to 2016 and caretaker for two months in 2016. Manzoor was selected as the head coach of Penang U21 in 2017. 2018 was his first season as first team head coach, he guided MOF to the semi-final stage of FAM League. In the following year, he was the head coach of Perlis Northern Lions until the club's bankruptcy in February.
Manzoor is the head coach of Penang from April 2019.