[6] Tan Sri Datuk Abdul Ghani Minhat was born on 23 December 1935 in Kampung Solok, Rantau, Negeri Sembilan.

[7] Abdul Ghani later attended Princess Road School (now Sekolah Kebangsaan Jalan Raja Muda) at the age of 10 in 1945.

Two years later, Abdul Ghani attended Sekolah St. John's Kuala Lumpur and continued to play for the school team.

In 1955, Abdul Ghani was chosen to play with Selangor FA in their attempt to win the HMS Malaya Cup for the first time in 6 years.

Abdul Ghani, alongside M. Chandran, Stanley Gabrielle, Robert Choe and Arthur Koh, Selangor was a very powerful and feared team across Malaysia and Singapore.

The Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv manage to overcome Selangor by beating Abdul Ghani side 2–1 in Bangkok.

[10] However, Selangor was praised by the Football Association of Malaysia by being the first team to qualify the finals in the Asian Club Championship.

The following year, he scored his first goal in the first ever edition, inaugural 1957 Pestabola Merdeka from an amazing 40 meters rocket shot against Vietnam in the tournament held at the Padang TPCA, Princess Road in 1957.

[15] Abdul Ghani managed to overcome his disappointment in 1958 when he helped the national squad won the 1958 Pestabola Merdeka after being the group champions above Hong Kong and Indonesia.

[21] Abdul Ghani helped Malaya to won the 1962 Asian Games bronze medal after beating South Vietnam 4–1.

[30] He died on 28 September 2012, due to the complications after undergoing coronary bypass surgery at National Heart Institute, in Kuala Lumpur.