Daniel Bennett at the airport, returning home with the truimphant Singapore team after the 2007 ASEAN Football Championship final.

Daniel Mark Bennett / (born January 7, 1978, in Great Yarmouth, England) is a professional soccer player who plays for the Singapore Armed Forces Football Club (SAFFC) and the Singapore national football team. He was born a British citizen, but changed his nationality to Singaporean in 2002 in order to play international football for Singapore. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 159 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) took this picture at changi airport when the truimphant lions returned home. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 159 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) took this picture at changi airport when the truimphant lions returned home. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Singapore. ... is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Great Yarmouth, often known to locals simply as Yarmouth, is an English coastal town in the county of Norfolk. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... The Singapore Armed Forces Football Club (SAFFC) is a professional soccer club which plays in Singapores S.League. ... First international Singapore 2 - 3 South Korea (Singapore; April 11, 1953) Biggest win Singapore 11 - 0 Laos (Singapore; January 15, 2007) Biggest defeat Burma 9 - 0 Singapore (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; November 9, 1969) AFC Asian Cup Appearances 1 (First in 1984) Best result Round 1, 1984 Aide Iskandar, captain of...

Representing Singapore at international level, Bennett was a key member of the teams which won the ASEAN Football Championship (formerly known as the 'Tiger Cup') in 2005 and 2007. The ASEAN Football Championship (formerly known as Tiger Cup) is a biennial international football competition organised by the ASEAN Football Federation, contested by the national teams of nations in Southeast Asia. ...

At club level, Bennett currently plays for SAFFC in Singapore's S.League. He has previously played for S.League clubs Woodlands Wellington, Tanjong Pagar United and Balestier Central. Bennett won the S.League's 'Player of the Year' award in 2001, when he played for Tanjong Pagar. Bennett also had two stints playing for Wrexham in the English football league in 2001-3. The S.League is the top professional football (soccer) league in Singapore. ... Woodlands Wellington Football Club is a professional soccer club which plays in Singapores professional football league, the S.League. ... Tanjong Pagar United Football Club is a professional soccer club in Singapore. ... Balestier Khalsa Football Club is a professional soccer club which plays in Singapores S.League. ... Wrexham Football Club (nicknamed The Red Dragons, or more traditionally, The Robins) are a football team based in Wrexham, north-east Wales. ...

Bennett was born in the United Kingdom. His family moved to Singapore when he was two years old. He was educated in Singapore at Tanglin Trust School and the United World College of South East Asia (where his father, Andrew Bennett, was a teacher and later Headmaster until 2004). He then returned the UK to study at Loughborough University, before coming back to Singapore to play professional football. Tanglin Trust School (TTS) is an international school in Singapore. ... The United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) is an independent international school in Singapore. ... Loughborough University is located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. ...

See also

• List of Asian footballers with foreign heritage

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External links

• Profile at Football Association of Singapore website