Zainuddin Kassim
Bruneian footballer
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Haji Zainuddin bin Haji Kassim is a Bruneian former national football player and current coach.
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Zainuddin in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Haji Zainuddin bin Haji Kassim | ||
| Date of birth | 1 November 1965[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Brunei | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Brunei | |||
| International career‡ | |||
| Brunei | ? | (3+) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1988 | Brunei (player-coach) | ||
| 2001 | Brunei | ||
| 2004 | Brunei | ||
| 2008–2011 | AM Gunners | ||
| 2011 | Brunei U19 | ||
| 2013 | Brunei U23 (assistant coach) | ||
| 2020 | Brunei (assistant coach) | ||
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 25 August 2015 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 25 August 2015 | |||
Zainuddin played as a striker for the Bruneian representative team in the Malaysia league in the 80s and 90s.[2] He made several appearances for the national side, and scored a goal in a 1986 World Cup qualifier against Hong Kong.
Zainuddin became a football coach afterwards. After a coaching stint for Brunei's M-League side while still registered as a player in 1988,[3] he took charge of the national team for 6 games at the 2002 World Cup qualifying.[4] He then turned to club football in 2008 with AM Gunners,[5] coaching them until 2011 when the season was aborted abruptly. He was appointed Brunei Under-19 head coach in 2011,[6] followed by being Brunei Under-23 assistant coach in 2013.[7]
In 2020, he was appointed assistant coach of the Brunei national football team headed by Ali Hj Mustafa.[8]