{"id":24604,"date":"2020-10-12T14:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=24604"},"modified":"2020-12-29T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T05:54:49","slug":"teerasil-thai-league-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/10\/12\/teerasil-thai-league-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Teerasil Dangda nearing Thai League return as talks between BG Pathum United and Shimizu S-Pulse begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thailand international and Shimizu S-Pulse striker Teerasil Dangda is closing on a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/tag\/thai-league\/\">Thai League<\/a> leaders BG Pathum United (BGPU) with a fee worth 24 million baht.<\/h2>\n<p>According to Siamsport, <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/tag\/bg-pathum-united\/\"><em>The Rabbits<\/em><\/a> management have reached an agreement with Shimizu S-Pulse for Teerasil to join in the second-leg of the Thai League season with a contract lasting 3 and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>A Muangthong United legend, Teerasil left <em>The Kirins\u00a0<\/em>for Shimizu S-Pulse on a permanent deal at the start of the 2020 season. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has delayed domestic football across Asia and with Teerasil contract ending at the beginning of 2021, Shimizu S-Pulse is now willing to sell Teerasil rather than risk losing <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/tag\/teerasil-dangda\/\">the 32 years old<\/a> as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Thai League golden boots winner has experience playing abroad with Manchester City and Grasshoppers Zurich&#8217;s reserves and later in the first team with La Liga&#8217;s Almeria FC, <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/tag\/j1-league\/\">J1 League<\/a>&#8216;s Sanfrecce Hiroshima and recently Shimizu S-Pulse. Teerasil led Muangthong United to 4 league titles and 4 domestic cups between 2007 and 2020. A winner of the 2016 AFF Championship, Teerasil also took home the golden boots award on 3 separate occasions.<\/p>\n<p>BGPU currently lead the Thai League table with 22 points from 8 matches, 5 points ahead of their nearest follower, and is the only undefeated club in the top flight at the moment. Despite having the league&#8217;s best goal difference (+10), BGPU has issue scoring from open play and currently relied on set pieces, penalties and their ability to keep clean-sheets.<\/p>\n<p>Only 2 clubs in the top half of the table scored fewer goals than BGPU thus it makes sense why head coach Dusit Chalermsan is trying to add an experienced proven-goalscorer like Teerasil to his title-challenging squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand international and Shimizu S-Pulse striker Teerasil Dangda is closing on a move to Thai League leaders BG Pathum United (BGPU) with a fee worth 24 million baht. According to Siamsport, The Rabbits management have reached an agreement with Shimizu S-Pulse for Teerasil to join in the second-leg of the Thai League season with a contract lasting 3 and a half years. A Muangthong United legend, Teerasil left The Kirins\u00a0for Shimizu S-Pulse on a permanent deal at the start of the 2020 season. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has delayed domestic football across Asia and with Teerasil contract ending at the beginning of 2021, Shimizu S-Pulse is now willing to sell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/10\/12\/teerasil-thai-league-returns\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Teerasil Dangda nearing Thai League return as talks between BG Pathum United and Shimizu S-Pulse begins&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":25098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,38],"tags":[1832,381,1875,478,200],"class_list":["post-24604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-thailand","tag-bg-pathum-united","tag-j1-league","tag-shimizu-s-pulse","tag-teerasil-dangda","tag-thai-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24604","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\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24607,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24604\/revisions\/24607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}