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Football: Fleet-footed Cheetah Farhan Zulkifli on the fast track to becoming a Lion

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Hougang United's 16-year-old winger Farhan Zulkifli (right) has been called up to the national team after a series of good performances despite just 10 senior starts for his club.

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SINGAPORE - Hougang United winger Farhan Zulkifli is always in a hurry. The 16-year-old lives in Clementi, studies at ITE College West in Choa Chu Kang, and trains at Hougang Stadium in the north east.
"Sometimes classes end at 5.30pm, and I have to request my teachers to let me leave earlier because it takes more than an hour to get to training," said the first-year electrical engineering student, who managed a grade point average of 3.6 (out of 4) in his first semester.
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