Half-length portrait of Chia Boon Leong giving a speech at a dinner hosted by Ang Soon Hoe, President of Rovers Sports Club. Mr Ang hosted a dinner to send Chia Boon Leong off to England. Fraser and Neave ran a competition to select Malaya’s most popular football star. Chia came up tops and Edwin Dutton of Selangor was second. Their reward was a two-months training stint in England.
18/09/1954
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Chia Boon Leong Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore