Esad Sejdic | |
Birth Place: | Yugoslavia |
Position: | Striker |
Clubs1: | FK Novi Pazar |
Years2: | 1992–199? |
Clubs2: | Perak FA |
Years3: | 199?–1994 |
Clubs3: | Negeri Sembilan FA |
Years4: | 1994–1995 |
Clubs4: | Hong Kong Rangers FC |
Years5: | 1996 |
Clubs5: | Balestier Central |
Years6: | 1997 |
Clubs6: | Woodlands Wellington FC |
Years7: | 2000 |
Clubs7: | Tampines Rovers FC |
Goals7: | 5[1] |
Years8: | 2001 |
Clubs8: | Woodlands Wellington FC |
Manageryears1: | 2014 |
Managerclubs1: | Admiralty FC[2] |
Esad Sejdic is a Yugoslavian former footballer who played as a forward.
Back in 1996, Singaporean club Balestier Central got the attackers' services where he scored the first-ever S.League goal, netting it in a match confronting Police FC.[3] One week later, he made the S.League's first hat-trick in a 4–1 win, with his club coming third by the end of the season.[3] Signing for Woodlands Wellington in 1997 with Croatian Sandro Radun, their applications were rejected by the Singapore Football Association; in response, they asked FIFA to allow their documents, who in turn forced the Association to repay the player, with Sejdic's extra money amounting to 40700 Singaporean dollars.[4] The S.League supporters also wrote splenetic responses to the newspaper, saying that Sejdic should play.[5]
Violating Muslim ordinance by being in the same house with an Islamic woman without being a Muslim himself, the Yugoslavian was released by Negeri Sembilan in 2004.[6]
Owning three to four restaurants in Singapore, two went bankrupt in 2015 and he had to reduce one restaurants staff to four full-timers in 2016 following the hookah ban.[7]