{"id":21556,"date":"2019-12-26T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T08:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=21556"},"modified":"2019-12-26T17:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T08:26:35","slug":"coach-ishii-lays-out-ambitious-targets-for-samut-prakan-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/12\/26\/coach-ishii-lays-out-ambitious-targets-for-samut-prakan-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Ishii lays out Ambitious Targets for Samut Prakan City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tactictimes\"><strong>Obb Deewajin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Football Tribe Thailand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head coach Masatada Ishii will be aiming for a top-three finish with Samut Prakan City next season and believes that the Sea Fang have the potential to be a strong Thai League club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samut Prakan City shook the Thai League with an ambitious appointment of former Kashima Antlers head coach Masatada Ishii. The former J League winning manager arrives with an impressive record and is renowned for guiding Kashima to the 2016 Club World Cup finals, where they were eventually defeated by Real Madrid 4-2 after drawing 2-2 in normal time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samut Prakan City was one of the surprise performers of 2019 and the appointment of Masatada Ishii is a clear statement that the club wants to build on last year&#8217;s success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am extremely excited to begin working, more than I am nervous. I accepted the job after talking to the management and hearing their intention to build a successful Thai League club.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThough most of our players are considered pretty young, after watching our games, I believe the squad has the potential to grow stronger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Picha Autra and Jaroensak Wonggorn played a crucial role in Samutprakan City\u2019s run to a sixth-place finish and were recognized with call-ups to the senior and U23 National Team squads. Judging by Ishii\u2019s comment, it\u2019ll be interesting to see how far he can develop the current core of young talents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obb Deewajin Football Tribe Thailand &nbsp; Head coach Masatada Ishii will be aiming for a top-three finish with Samut Prakan City next season and believes that the Sea Fang have the potential to be a strong Thai League club. Samut Prakan City shook the Thai League with an ambitious appointment of former Kashima Antlers head coach Masatada Ishii. The former J League winning manager arrives with an impressive record and is renowned for guiding Kashima to the 2016 Club World Cup finals, where they were eventually defeated by Real Madrid 4-2 after drawing 2-2 in normal time.\u00a0 Samut Prakan City was one of the surprise performers of 2019 and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/12\/26\/coach-ishii-lays-out-ambitious-targets-for-samut-prakan-city\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Coach Ishii lays out Ambitious Targets for Samut Prakan City&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":21557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,38],"tags":[865,1675,200],"class_list":["post-21556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southeast-asia","category-thailand","tag-masatada-ishii","tag-samut-prakan-city","tag-thai-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556","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=21556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21561,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions\/21561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}