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Biography
Alando Nicholas Atkinson is an English former professional footballer.
Career
Football
In his youth, he was part of the Kuala Lumpur Youth Soccer program and went abroad to start his career with the EduKick Madrid soccer academy at age 15.
ATM eventually decided to nullify his contract as M-League rules stipulate that a foreign import has to have played in a country's second tier. One year later, Balestier Khalsa offered him a one-week trial. He impressed the club management, and they signed him for a half-year deal in 2014. Ultimately, he was handed his first-team debut in a 2-2 cup tie away at DPMM.
Malaysian coach B. Sathianathan was the first to give him a professional contract.
Retirement
Ever since his football contract ended in 2014, he is working as an instructor for the workout institution Flycycle and did advertising work for watch manufacturer TAG Heuer in March 2017.