Hakeme Yazid Said


Muhammad Hakeme Yazid bin Said is a Bruneian footballer who plays as a forward for DPMM FC of the Singapore Premier League. The youngest brother of international player Shah Razen Said et al., he scored on his professional league debut in 2019 at the age of 16.

Club career

A student of Rimba II Secondary School, Hakeme followed his brothers' footsteps in getting into football from the age of 13, turning out for Tabuan A in national youth tournaments. Hakeme's team became youth league champions and cup winners in 2017. They were then invited to participate in the 2017–18 Brunei FA Cup where they managed to reach the quarterfinals, faring better than their two senior teams.
At the start of 2019, Hakeme signed a contract to play for DPMM FC in the 2018-19 Brunei Premier League, returning to the local scene after an absence of 14 years. He scored the professional youth team's first goal in the 30th minute against Rimba Star FC on 8 January in a 4–0 victory. After 7 games, Hakeme scored nine goals to win the league's golden boot. DPMM also became champions of the league. He also managed to score a hat-trick against Rainbow FC in the qualifying round of the 2018–19 Brunei FA Cup on 27 January.
The head coach of DPMM's first team, Adrian Pennock, kept an eye on Hakeme and promoted him to the first team in the second half of the 2019 Singapore Premier League season, perhaps conveniently after the acquisition of a returning Adi Said from his spell at UiTM FC. An injury to striker Andrey Varankow enabled Pennock to give the youngster his first-team debut against Geylang International on 2 August, withdrawing Adi to the bench after a rusty performance against Home United the week before. At the start of the second half, Hakeme stole the ball deep in the Eagles' back line and broke the deadlock with a debut goal, which at 16 years and 175 days of age was only a day longer than Hariss Harun's youngest goalscorer record for the Singapore leagues. The goal helped DPMM to emerge as 3–0 victors at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium.

International career

Hakeme's first international tournament with the Young Wasps was the 2017 AFF U-15 Championship held in Thailand in July 2017. Under Stephen Ng Heng Seng, Brunei U15 managed to finish fourth out of 6 teams, with five points in as many games. Hakeme was ever-present for Brunei at the tournament playing at centre-back. Two months later, the same team set off to Chinese Taipei for the 2018 AFC U-16 Championship qualification Group F matches which were hosted there. Hakeme scored a goal in the first match, a 4–0 victory against Macau on 16 September. Brunei finished third in the group after another win against Hong Kong in their fourth and last match pushed them to 6 points.
A day after scoring in his DPMM FC first-team debut, Hakeme was announced to be joining Brunei U18 for the 2019 AFF U-18 Youth Championship held in Vietnam in August 2019. He played in four matches without finding the back of the net for the Young Wasps.
In November 2019 Hakeme was called up to the national under-23 side competing in the 30th SEA Games held in the Philippines at the end of the month.

Honours

Team

;Tabuan A
;DPMM FC
Hakeme Yazid has eight elder brothers who are all footballers. The eldest is Shah Razen who plays for DPMM FC, followed by Amalul of Kota Ranger FC, Ahmad Hafiz of Jerudong FC, Adi of Kota Ranger FC, Abdul Azim and Amirul Sabqi formerly of Rimba Star FC, Amiruddin Nizam of Menglait FC and Abdul Mateen of MS ABDB.