Mokhtar Dahari

Mokhtar Dahari is a name I think deserves far more reach than it has. A Selangor legend who died in 1991 at just 37 from motor neurone disease, he was 'Supermokh' to Malaysian fans, and FIFA has acknowledged his 89 international goals. What moves me is that he did it in a pre-professional era, carrying a whole nation's football identity on his back. Stadiums and tributes still bear his name, which tells you how loved he was. Losing him so young feels genuinely cruel. He's the kind of figure who should be in the textbooks, not just the record books.

This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.

Name (English)

Mokhtar Dahari

Name (Japanese)

モクタル・ダハリ

Reading

もくたる・だはり

Born

November 13, 1953 – July 11, 1991

Origin

Selangor, Malaysia

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokhtar%20Dahari
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1943172

Tags

• Selangor
• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.