Most of his National Football Academy Under-17 teammates were promoted to form the first batch of Young Lions in 2003, but Baihakki Khaizan was left out because he had not played much the previous year due to a fractured metatarsal.
Disappointed, the lanky teenager thought about giving up his football dreams then.
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