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Biography
Datuk Santokh Singh is a retired Malaysian football player. His wife is Datin Seri Taljit Kaur and has 3 children, Kiran Kaur, Sukhveer Singh and Rajveer Singh.
Club career
Born in Setapak, Santokh played in the Selangor FA team from 1972 to 1985, winning 9 Malaysia Cups as captain of the team.
International career
Santokh was a player for Malaysia national football team in the 1970s and 1980s, and played alongside the late Mokhtar Dahari, Soh Chin Aun and R. Arumugam. He participated in the team that qualified to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, though he never featured in the finals of the tournament due to the Games' boycott by Malaysia. Santokh also played for Malaysia in the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran, capturing the bronze medal, and winning the Southeast Asian Games gold medal in 1977 and 1979.
His partnership with Soh Chin Aun was said to be the most solid defence in the much-feared Malaysian team.
Accolades and legacy
In 2011, Santokh was bestowed the honour of the Panglima Mahkota Wilayah by the Yang Dipertuan Agong of Malaysia, which bears the title Datuk. during the occasion of Federal Territory Day. In the same year, the Sultan of Selangor also honoured him with the Order of Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, also carrying the title Datuk.
Santokh was inducted into the Olympic Council of Malaysia's Hall of Fame in 2004.
In 2016, he was the reference for one of the members of Team Malaysia in "Ola Bola".