Singapore s Olympic hockey goalkeeper Anwarul Haque dies at 85

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SINGAPORE – Once hailed as the world’s best goalkeeper by then-International Hockey Federation technical committee chairman Colonel A. S. Dara, Singapore’s Anwarul Haque died on June 24 at the age of 85.

He is survived by his wife Rita Minjoot and their three sons Shezad, Tariq and Kamil.

Born in Singapore in 1939 as the eldest of seven children, Anwarul grew to become a colossal figure in hockey.

His international hockey career began in 1956 when he was a junior to the Singapore team that played at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics.

He would become a full international a year later and went to the Tokyo 1964 Olympics as one of four Singaporeans, alongside Douglas Paul Nonis, Kanalingam Sinnathamby and Kartar Singh, who were selected for the Malaysian hockey team who finished ninth out of 15 teams.

He played for Singapore at the 1962 and 1970 Asian Games where they finished fifth in both editions, and helped the Republic to a silver medal at the 1971 South-east Asian Peninsular (SEAP) Games, the predecessor of the SEA Games.

Anwarul featured in The Straits Times’ list of Singapore sporting greats in 1999. Coming in at 36th, he was described as “the Peter Schmeichel of hockey” in reference to the legendary Danish and Manchester United football goalkeeper.

In a 2004 ST story, former journalist Jeffrey Low called him “Singapore’s greatest and bravest hockey goalkeeper”.

Anwarul summed up his own fearless mentality when he said in an ST interview in 1993: “I’ve stopped hockey sticks with my face. My friends still remind me how I once headed the ball away. I didn’t know the meaning of fear when I was in goal.”

He was also an outstanding personality off the pitch.

After graduating with a law degree from the University of Singapore with honours, he

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