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Rodney wants to shore up Selangor defence, having helped beat them 4-0 as loanee

Former Malaysia U-23 centre back Rodney Celvin Akwensivie is one of the new senior defenders signed by Selangor ahead of the 2020 season.

For the past two seasons, the 23-year old turned out for another Shah Alam-based club PKNS FC, and in 2019 he helped them give the Red Giants a black eye.

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In round three of the Super League, he helped the minnows trounce Selangor 4-0, playing the full 90 minutes in what was perhaps the lowest point of Selangor's 2019 season. B. Satiananthan's charges would eventually recover from the humiliation to end the league campaign in third place, six places above PKNS, before reaching the Malaysia Cup semi-finals, but Selangor could never quite shake off their defence's porousness throughout the rest of the season.