“Cambodian Messi”\u00a0Chan Vathanaka had a competitive debut\u00a0to remember for Fujieda MYFC on Saturday, contributing to his side’s 5-0 win against Yazaki Valente in the semifinals of the Suruga Cup Challenge.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old was brought on as a substitute for Hirohito Shinohara with 20 minutes remaining in the second half.<\/p>\n
With the result well in hand, the Cambodian forward got involved in Fujieda’s fifth goal of the day during stoppage time.<\/p>\n
After\u00a0he received the ball from the halfway line, Vathanaka launched a long pass towards Keisuke Endo, who duly assisted goal-scorer Samejima Kozo.<\/p>\n
Vathanaka was pleased with his performance. “I was happy to participate. I was able to help out with the attack, but my [defending]\u00a0still needs improvement.”<\/p>\n
“I was happy to participate. I was able to help out with the attack, but my [defending]\u00a0still needs improvement,” he was quoted as saying by Nikkan Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n Fujieda were to face\u00a0fellow J3 League participants Azul Claro Numazu in the final of the tournament, which also serves as Emperor’s Cup qualifying for Shizuoka Prefecture, on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Cambodian Messi”\u00a0Chan Vathanaka had a competitive debut\u00a0to remember for Fujieda MYFC on Saturday, contributing to his side’s 5-0 win against Yazaki Valente in the semifinals of the Suruga Cup Challenge. The 23-year-old was brought on as a substitute for Hirohito Shinohara with 20 minutes remaining in the second half. With the result well in hand, the Cambodian forward got involved in Fujieda’s fifth goal of the day during stoppage time. After\u00a0he received the ball from the halfway line, Vathanaka launched a long pass towards Keisuke Endo, who duly assisted goal-scorer Samejima Kozo. Vathanaka was pleased with his performance. “I was happy to participate. I was able to help out with … Continue reading “Chan Vathanaka makes impressive cup debut for Fujieda MYFC”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,26],"tags":[254,286,287,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717"}],"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=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}