Malaysia national team will open their 2018 campaign with the friendly against Mongolia\u00a0at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil on 22 March.<\/p>\n
The match will be the final test for newly-appointed coach Tan Cheng Hoe ahead of the team’s final\u00a0Asian Cup qualifying Group B match against Lebanon on 27 March in Beirut.<\/p>\n
Cheng Hoe replaced former coach\u00a0Nelo Vingada<\/a> after the Portuguese resigned in December due to a string of poor results.<\/p>\n Under Vingada, Malaysia were\u00a0drawn one\u00a0and lost six\u00a0of their seven games. Last month, the Tigers stumbled to the 174th position in the FIFA rankings.<\/p>\n Taking over the post from Vingada, Cheng Hoe has almost a year to prepare for AFF Cup, which is the highest target of the national team in 2018.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malaysia national team will open their 2018 campaign with the friendly against Mongolia\u00a0at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil on 22 March. The match will be the final test for newly-appointed coach Tan Cheng Hoe ahead of the team’s final\u00a0Asian Cup qualifying Group B match against Lebanon on 27 March in Beirut. Cheng Hoe replaced former coach\u00a0Nelo Vingada after the Portuguese resigned in December due to a string of poor results. Under Vingada, Malaysia were\u00a0drawn one\u00a0and lost six\u00a0of their seven games. Last month, the Tigers stumbled to the 174th position in the FIFA rankings. Taking over the post from Vingada, Cheng Hoe has almost a year to prepare for AFF … Continue reading “Malaysia open 2018 campaign with Mongolia friendly”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[219,416,64,762],"class_list":["post-10753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-afc-asian-cup-qualification","tag-friendly","tag-malaysia","tag-tan-cheng-hoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753","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=10753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}