Ubon UMT United have appointed former coach of Finland national team Mixu Paatelainen as head coach for next season, according to reports from Thailand.<\/p>\n
It is a considered a surprising move as the club had reportedly signed former England and Tottenham Hotspur defender\u00a0Gary Stevens<\/a> as their new boss last month.<\/p>\n Paatelainen had a 20-year playing career, mostly in the Scottish leagues, with Dundee United, Aberdeen, Hibernian, St Johnstone and St Mirren. In 1994, he\u00a0became the first Finn to play in the English Premier League for Bolton Wanderers.<\/p>\n After retiring as a player in 2005,\u00a0Paatelainen was in charge of Finland national team for four years and has also managed some Scottish sides, including Dundee United.<\/p>\n However, the 50-year-old was unable to stop The Tangerines from being relegated out of the top flight in 2016.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ubon UMT United have appointed former coach of Finland national team Mixu Paatelainen as head coach for next season, according to reports from Thailand. It is a considered a surprising move as the club had reportedly signed former England and Tottenham Hotspur defender\u00a0Gary Stevens as their new boss last month. Paatelainen had a 20-year playing career, mostly in the Scottish leagues, with Dundee United, Aberdeen, Hibernian, St Johnstone and St Mirren. In 1994, he\u00a0became the first Finn to play in the English Premier League for Bolton Wanderers. After retiring as a player in 2005,\u00a0Paatelainen was in charge of Finland national team for four years and has also managed some Scottish … Continue reading “Mixu Paatelainen becomes new Ubon UMT United coach – Reports”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1170],"class_list":["post-10372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-ubon-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372","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=10372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}