Trials With Real Salt Lake
Sahdan underwent a successful trial with the American MLS club Real Salt Lake in Miami, Florida from 14 to 24 Feb 2008; scoring two goals in four starts. The Home United striker is then invited to join Real Salt Lake on their two weeks pre-season tour to Rosario, Argentina, beginning on 1 March, for three exhibition matches. This invitation comes in view of the MLS side offering Indra a contract for the upcoming season, however Ingra suffered with a knee injury in Argentina, which proved costly.
Prior to the trip to Argentina Sahdan's friend, Dave Roberts, who helped arrange the trial was quoted to describe Indra's chances of getting the contract as "very good", after his conversation with the club's general manager, Garth Lagerway. If the transfer went through, Sahdan would have become Singapore's only third footballer to be playing outside of Asia, following Fandi Ahmad and V. Sundramoorthy. However, Sahdan was not offered a contract by RSL coach Jason Kreis.
Sahdan had trials with two Vietnam League clubs and one First Division club. He returned to Singapore on 4 January 2009, in view of securing a contract in Vietnam. Speculations have been made that Sahdan would not be signing with any S-League teams for 2009 season, and he might head to Hyundai A-League for 2009. He is supposed to join the national team on 5 January for the centralised training before the Asian Cup Qualifiers against IRAN.
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