{"id":10139,"date":"2018-01-03T02:05:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2018-01-03T02:05:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:05:22","slug":"coach-ong-kim-swee-finalize-malaysia-u-23-squad-syria-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/01\/03\/coach-ong-kim-swee-finalize-malaysia-u-23-squad-syria-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Ong Kim Swee to finalize Malaysia U-23 squad after Syria friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia U-23 coach Ong Kim Swee will finalize the 23-man squad for the\u00a0for the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/10\/24\/vietnam-face-south-korea-thailand-face-japan-2018-afc-u23-championship\/\">2018 AFC Under-23 Cham\u00adpion\u00adship<\/a> following the friendly against Syria U-23.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly, which is also the final test for Kim Swee and his side, will take place at the Jiangsu Training Centre Sta\u00addium in Nanjing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Syria game will give me the best idea on who to pick for the starting XI for the tournament proper,\u201d said Kim Swee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/sport\/football\/2018\/01\/02\/kim-swee-to-choose-starting-xi-after-syria-friendly\/\">as quoted by The Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re focused on the tactical strategies. I want to see our team playing to their strengths against Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to win the ball more, especially in the middle and have better control of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia U-23 team arrived in Nanjing on Sunday for the training sessions ahead of the AFC tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In China, they have been drawn in Group C with Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia U-23 coach Ong Kim Swee will finalize the 23-man squad for the\u00a0for the 2018 AFC Under-23 Cham\u00adpion\u00adship following the friendly against Syria U-23. The friendly, which is also the final test for Kim Swee and his side, will take place at the Jiangsu Training Centre Sta\u00addium in Nanjing on Friday. \u201cThe Syria game will give me the best idea on who to pick for the starting XI for the tournament proper,\u201d said Kim Swee, as quoted by The Star. \u201cWe\u2019re focused on the tactical strategies. I want to see our team playing to their strengths against Syria. \u201cWe need to win the ball more, especially in the middle and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/01\/03\/coach-ong-kim-swee-finalize-malaysia-u-23-squad-syria-friendly\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Coach Ong Kim Swee to finalize Malaysia U-23 squad after Syria friendly&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[692,64,215],"class_list":["post-10139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-2018-afc-u-23-championship","tag-malaysia","tag-ong-kim-swee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}