{"id":28398,"date":"2024-03-18T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=28398"},"modified":"2024-03-18T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:09:08","slug":"hamka-hamzah-comes-out-of-retirement-as-rans-play-stalemate-with-bali-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2024\/03\/18\/hamka-hamzah-comes-out-of-retirement-as-rans-play-stalemate-with-bali-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamka Hamzah Comes Out of Retirement as RANS Play Stalemate with Bali United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Veteran defender Hamka Hamzah made his return to professional football after retiring in 2022, as his struggling RANS Nusantara FC side played out a 1-1 draw with top four-chasing Bali United at the Sultan Agung Stadium in Bantul on Sunday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hanging up his boots after leaving second-tier side FC Bekasi City two years ago, former journeyman Hamka has been working as RANS Nusantara&#8217;s manager, helping out the club&#8217;s head coaches in Rahmad Darmawan, Rodrigo Santana, Eduardo Almeida, and currently Francis Wewengkang.<\/p>\n<p>However, after Portuguese defender Angelo Meneses had to end his season early after a knee injury sustained during a Liga 1 Indonesia match against Persib Bandung on March 3rd, RANS Nusantara found themselves facing a crisis at their backline as another defender, Dallen Doke, is currently recovering from a fractured fibula. In response to that, Hamka has decided to come out of retirement for the time being and register himself as a player\/manager, in order to solve the Prestige Phoenixes&#8217; defensive shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Hamka was on the bench as RANS Nusantara lost 4-3 to Persik Kediri on March 8th, before Sunday&#8217;s showdown with Bali United saw Francis name Hamka as his starting defender alongside David Maulana, Kiko, and Taufik Hidayat, playing 79 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>And despite his aging legs, Hamka performed quite admirably in the RANS Nusantara backline, performing 16 tackles and 18 interceptions that frustrated Bali United to no end.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Serdadu Tridatu\u00a0<\/em>did score the opening goal through substitute Jefferson Assis in the 61st minute, however three minutes later RANS Nusantara struck back through Mitsuru Maruoka, ending the tie in a stalemate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran defender Hamka Hamzah made his return to professional football after retiring in 2022, as his struggling RANS Nusantara FC side played out a 1-1 draw with top four-chasing Bali United at the Sultan Agung Stadium in Bantul on Sunday night. Hanging up his boots after leaving second-tier side FC Bekasi City two years ago, former journeyman Hamka has been working as RANS Nusantara&#8217;s manager, helping out the club&#8217;s head coaches in Rahmad Darmawan, Rodrigo Santana, Eduardo Almeida, and currently Francis Wewengkang. However, after Portuguese defender Angelo Meneses had to end his season early after a knee injury sustained during a Liga 1 Indonesia match against Persib Bandung on March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2024\/03\/18\/hamka-hamzah-comes-out-of-retirement-as-rans-play-stalemate-with-bali-united\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Hamka Hamzah Comes Out of Retirement as RANS Play Stalemate with Bali United&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":27069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26],"tags":[77,2851,91,643,512,1740,2615,95,315],"class_list":["post-28398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-southeast-asia","tag-bali-united","tag-hamka-hamzah","tag-indonesia","tag-indonesia-liga-1","tag-liga-1","tag-liga-1-indonesia","tag-rans-nusantara","tag-slider","tag-southeast-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28399,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28398\/revisions\/28399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}