Johor FC is one of the few familiar football clubs to have competed actively in the highest level. It has also created history as the first club to be promoted to the Premier League with the then dominant state teams.
As mentioned previously traditional states teams such as Selangor, and Kelantan have larger fan base as compared to clubs such as Johor FC. While the Johor state team struggled to gain promotion to the Super League, Kelantan did a treble while The Armed Forces enlisted the who's who of Malaysian football to win promotion to the Super League and capped a historic appearance in the Malaysia Cup final.
Looking forward to compete with the best just have to wait another season for Johor football fans, but that changed when Johor FA started negotiations with Daniel Guiza the Spanish international striker who helped fan the Spanish football revival with the Euro 2008 title.
Daniel Guiza
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Ambitious Johor FA signed 6 players from the national team, 4 of whom rekindled the pride of Malaysian football by winning the AFF Suzuki Cup in 2010. The new signings includes Malaysia's first millionaire footballer Safee Sali, MVP since 2010 Norshahrul Idlan Talaha from Kelantan, national skipper Mohd Safiq Rahim from Selangor, Muslim Ahmad from Terengganu and the Radzak twins Aidil Zafuan and Zaquan Adha from the Armed Forces. Completing the European duo will be the Italian wing-back Simone Del Nero from Lazio
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The winning members from the AFF Suzuki Cup 2010: No 10. Safee Sali, No.9 Norsharul Idlan Talha, No.24 Muslim Ahmad, No.8 Mohd Safiq
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But unlike the Armed Forces who signed the stars to play from the second-tier, Johor made a surprise move which will see the star players playing for a new Johor FC now rebranded as Darul Takzim FC and don the red and blue of the state Johor team in place of traditional orange of Johor FC. A sensational team change which surely the Johor fans would be happy to count as their own.
The previous Johor FC badge and the new Darul Takzim badge
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The new Darul Takzim FC jersey in place of the traditional orange of Johor FC
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As for the state team, it will continue to ply its trade in the second division but as Johor United.
To guide Darul Takzim throughout the 2013 season will be Singapore's legendary player Fandi Ahmad who have spent the previous season with Johor as the technical director. As a coach, Fandi led the Singapore Armed Forces, the most successful team in Singapore to two S.League titles in just three years from 2000 to 2002. A feat the Johor fans hope to replicate.
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