{"id":12687,"date":"2018-04-30T02:05:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=12687"},"modified":"2018-04-30T02:05:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:05:45","slug":"iain-ramsay-thailand-are-our-biggest-rivals-at-2018-aff-suzuki-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/04\/30\/iain-ramsay-thailand-are-our-biggest-rivals-at-2018-aff-suzuki-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iain Ramsay: Thailand are our biggest rivals at 2018 AFF Suzuki Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines midfielder Iain Ramsay has claimed that Thailand are his country\u2019s main rivals ahead of the 2018 AFF Suzuki Cup draw in Jakarta on May 2.<\/p>\n<p>Iain Ramsay said that <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/04\/22\/thailand-to-play-friendly-match-with-china-in-june\/\">Thailand<\/a> and Malaysia are the title favorites of the regional tournament, rather than Vietnam, who are placed at the Pot 1 of the draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be interesting to see who we are drawn against in the group stage, but there is no team in particular that we want to avoid,\u201d insisted Ramsay on the official website of <a href=\"http:\/\/affsuzukicup.com\/2018\/news\/philippines\/449-thailand-our-biggest-rivals-says-philippines-ramsay\">2o18 AFF Suzuki Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say Thailand are our biggest rivals in the region. The Philippines have been so close to the final in the past and Thailand have been the wall that\u2019s prevented us getting there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal will be simply to win the group and advance to the next stage. But it\u2019s a great opportunity this year for us to get the better of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"gt-res-c\" class=\"g-unit\">\n<div id=\"gt-res-p\">\n<div id=\"gt-res-data\">\n<div id=\"gt-res-wrap\">\n<div id=\"gt-res-content\">\n<div id=\"gt-res-dir-ctr\" class=\"trans-verified-button-small\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\">The 2018 AFF Suzuki Cup draw will take place on May 2 in Jakarta, Indonesia.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines midfielder Iain Ramsay has claimed that Thailand are his country\u2019s main rivals ahead of the 2018 AFF Suzuki Cup draw in Jakarta on May 2. Iain Ramsay said that Thailand and Malaysia are the title favorites of the regional tournament, rather than Vietnam, who are placed at the Pot 1 of the draw. \u201cIt will be interesting to see who we are drawn against in the group stage, but there is no team in particular that we want to avoid,\u201d insisted Ramsay on the official website of 2o18 AFF Suzuki Cup. \u201cI\u2019d say Thailand are our biggest rivals in the region. The Philippines have been so close to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/04\/30\/iain-ramsay-thailand-are-our-biggest-rivals-at-2018-aff-suzuki-cup\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Iain Ramsay: Thailand are our biggest rivals at 2018 AFF Suzuki Cup&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":12690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1395,877,1121,106,105],"class_list":["post-12687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam","tag-2018-aff-championship","tag-aff-suzuki-cup","tag-iain-ramsay","tag-philippines","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687","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=12687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}