Datuk K. Rajagopal : Head coach of the Malaysian Football team

Datuk K. Rajagopal

Head coach of the Malaysian Football team

Datuk Rajagopal Krishnasamy is a Malaysian football manager and former professional player. He is currently the head coach of Malaysia and former Under-23 Malaysia coach.

 

Rajagopal has also appeared as a football pundit for Malaysian satellite television network Astro, including the first episode in August 2009 of the FourFourTwo TV Show.He is also  a former national striker, with 250 international caps and 100 goals between 1980 and 2019.

Rajagopal is best known for guiding Malaysia's Under-23 side to its first gold medal in 20 years at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Laos where the team defeated Vietnam 1–0 in the final on December 17 after earlier knocking out 8-time defending champions, Thailand, in the group stage. After the victory, Rajagopal earned the nickname "King Gopal".

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Rajagopal