Ex-Negri football player passes away

SEREMBAN: Former Negri Sem*bilan football player Burhanudin Juned died yesterday at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital here where he had been warded for more than a year for motor neuron disease. He was 54.

He leaves behind wife Ros*ma*wati Abd Manaff, 47 and five children aged between nine and 22.

Burhanudin joined the Negri Sembilan State Development Cor*po*ration in 1975 as technician and retired on last year due to health reasons.

He played in defence for Negri Sem*bilan in 70s and 80s and had also served as a coach for the state. — Bernama