{"id":13580,"date":"2018-05-29T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=13580"},"modified":"2018-05-30T01:51:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:51:51","slug":"thailand-coach-milovan-rajevac-we-can-beat-higher-ranking-team-like-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/29\/thailand-coach-milovan-rajevac-we-can-beat-higher-ranking-team-like-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand coach Milovan Rajevac: We can beat higher ranking team like China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand coach Milovan Rajevac is confident about his side&#8217;s victory against China <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/04\/22\/thailand-to-play-friendly-match-with-china-in-june\/\">in a friendly<\/a> at Rajamangala National Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important game for our team because it offers world ranking points,&#8221; Rajevac said, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/news\/sports\/1474597\/thai-football-players-can-tame-dragons\">the Bangkok Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China are ranked higher than Thailand. I want every player to show to Thai football fans that we can beat a higher-ranked team like China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to prove that we can play against a team of this level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lippi is a great coach but we often play well on home soil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>China, who are under the guidance of 2006 World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi, are No.73 and Thailand are ranked No.122 in the latest FIFA rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Thai players are training at the Le Meridien Suvarnabhumi hotel for this warm-up game. To prepare for the game, Rajevac has called up three overseas-based stars, including goalkeeper Kawin Thammasatchanan, striker Teerasil Dangda and midfielder Chanathip Songkrasin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand coach Milovan Rajevac is confident about his side&#8217;s victory against China in a friendly at Rajamangala National Stadium on Saturday. &#8220;This is an important game for our team because it offers world ranking points,&#8221; Rajevac said, as quoted by the Bangkok Post. &#8220;China are ranked higher than Thailand. I want every player to show to Thai football fans that we can beat a higher-ranked team like China. &#8220;We have to prove that we can play against a team of this level. &#8220;Lippi is a great coach but we often play well on home soil.&#8221; China, who are under the guidance of 2006 World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi, are No.73 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/05\/29\/thailand-coach-milovan-rajevac-we-can-beat-higher-ranking-team-like-china\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Thailand coach Milovan Rajevac: We can beat higher ranking team like China&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,38],"tags":[154,684,68],"class_list":["post-13580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-thailand","tag-china","tag-milovan-rajevac","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580","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=13580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}