Yeap Cheng Eng
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| Date of birth | 1914 | ||
| Place of birth | Malaysia | ||
| Date of death | 1994 | ||
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| Yeap Cheng Eng | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 葉清榮 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 叶清荣 | ||||||||||
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Yeap Cheng Eng (1915–1994)[1][2] was a Chinese footballer. He was the first Malayan ever to participate in the Olympic Games, when he was a member of the football team which represented the China in the 1948 Olympic Games in London.
In Malayan domestic football, he represented the state of Penang and was their captain for many years, winning the Malaya Cup in 1953, 1954, and 1958 (at the age of 42).
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