CUPS Seirō (Seirō, Niigata) (Japan Soccer College) Granscena Niigata (Niigata, Niigata) FC Hokuriku (Kanazawa, Ishikawa) FC Matsucelona (Matsumoto, Nagano) N-Style Toyama ; SR Komatsu (Komatsu, Ishikawa) Tōkai League
Early life. Irfan Bachdim's father, Noval Bachdim, is an Indonesian national of Arab descent born in Malang in Indonesia's East Java province. He lived in the resort area of Lawang on the outskirts of Malang until the 1980s before moving to the Netherlands, where he resettled and married Hester van Dijk, a Dutch national.