Over the past four decades, Abdul Halim Kader has been synonymous with the sport of sepak takraw in Singapore.
But for the last four months, the 69-year-old has had to grapple with the unfamiliarity of not holding a leadership position in the sport's national body, Perses, for the first time since he was appointed its general secretary in 1982.
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