He Knows His Way
At nearly 32 years of age,
Mohd Safri bin Mohd Kassim has finally won his maiden international cap at senior level, and with his World Cup group stages hat-trick, sent a loud message to previous selectors: why the heck did it take so long?
While Singapore's qualification hopes were all but scuppered after a disastrous stretch midway through this short-lived campaign, it didn't matter at all to Grilled's gem, who joined the national squad on their flight to Andorra mere hours after putting in a hard ninety minutes against singnet_utd in the Singapore Masters.
He would start on the left of a rare three-man attack consisting of longtime regular Lim Long Wen and Batavia Cavaliers' Mohd Shahril Nizam bin Abu Samah, and proceed to eclipse them all with three out of three attempts from open play, en route to being declared the Man of the Match at the Sexador de Pollos.
This was a quite superlative introduction to the world stage, and Mohd Safri, never shy, immediately threw down the gauntlet to the national coaches after the feat.
"You see what you've been missing now?" the not-very-tactful forward asked, pressing his face into the cameras. "It's goals - sweet, sweet goals. Pick me, and there will be many more of those to come!"
