Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mohammad Isa bin Abdul Halim | ||
Date of birth | 15 May 1986 | ||
Place of birth | Singapore | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Defensive midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Geylang International | ||
Number | 4 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005 | Woodlands Wellington | 25 | (0) |
2005–2009 | Young Lions | 69 | (3) |
2009–2011 | Home United | 50 | (0) |
2012–2015 | LionsXII | 77 | (6) |
2015 | Tampines Rovers | 29 | (5) |
2016– | Geylang International | ||
National team‡ | |||
2005–2013 | Singapore | 63 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 May 2009. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 May 2017 |
Mohammad Isa bin Abdul Halim (born 15 May 1986) is a Singapore international footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Geylang International. He started out playing football as a centre forward in his youth.
Isa has previously played for S.League clubs Woodlands Wellington, Young Lions and Home United. On 27 June 2015 Isa moved from LionsXII to Tampines Rovers, in the process teaming up with his former coach V. Sundramoorthy.
He made his debut for the Singapore on 11 October 2005 against Cambodia.
He was part of the team that won the 2007 AFF Championship.
He was also part of the Singapore Under-23 team that took part in the 2005 Southeast Asian Games in Philippines and also won a bronze medal for the 2007 edition in Korat, Thailand.
According to an interview done in November 2007, Isa only got interested in football after watching a match Singapore and Malaysia with his grandfather. Isa started playing football competitively when he was 13 years old, back in his secondary school days, playing for Greenridge Secondary School. But it was only two years later when he got selected for Woodlands Wellington's and Singapore Under-16 teams did he take football seriously.