Selangor managed to sign 28 of the first 34 AMD graduates to their Premier League team ahead of the 2020 season. How did this transpire?
Before the Covid-19 pandemic halted footballing activities all over the world as well as in Malaysia, one of the top 2020 football stories was that of Selangor's sensational capture of 28 Mokhtar Dahari Academy (AMD) graduates.
The first batch of the national football academy trainees only finished their training and secondary education at the end of 2019, with their signings to Selangor's Premier League team and youth teams announced early the following year, but the effort to bring the likes of Luqman Hakim and Sikh Izhan to Shah Alam had begun since the middle of the year.