{"id":27860,"date":"2023-06-22T14:21:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T05:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=27860"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T05:21:54","slug":"messi-jay-returns-to-thai-league-with-bgpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2023\/06\/22\/messi-jay-returns-to-thai-league-with-bgpu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Messi Jay&#8221; Returns to Thai League with BGPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thailand star Chanathip Songkrasin has made a sensational return to the Thai League 1 after seven years in Japan by joining BG Pathum United in a signing made official on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>29-year old Chanathip was a breakout star at Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo from 2017 to 2022, however injuries hampered his progress at Kawasaki Frontale, with &#8220;Messi Jay&#8221; only making 18 appearances and scoring zero goals in his two years with the four-time J.League 1 winners.<\/p>\n<p>A move to BGPU would provide Chanathip with the escape route he needed to revitalize his career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BG Pathum United are delighted to announce that the club have reached an agreement for the transfer of Thailand international midfielder Chanathip Songkrasin from J-League side Kawasaki Frontale,&#8221; said an official statement from BGPU.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the J.League 1&#8217;s Team of the Season for 2018, Chanathip&#8217;s presence would hopefully galvanize a squad already stacked with talent such as Teerasil Dangda, Victor Cardozo, and Irfan Fandi as the Glass Rabbits seek to bounce back from a disappointing 2022\/23 campaign by challenging for honors in 2023\/24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand star Chanathip Songkrasin has made a sensational return to the Thai League 1 after seven years in Japan by joining BG Pathum United in a signing made official on Wednesday. 29-year old Chanathip was a breakout star at Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo from 2017 to 2022, however injuries hampered his progress at Kawasaki Frontale, with &#8220;Messi Jay&#8221; only making 18 appearances and scoring zero goals in his two years with the four-time J.League 1 winners. A move to BGPU would provide Chanathip with the escape route he needed to revitalize his career. &#8220;BG Pathum United are delighted to announce that the club have reached an agreement for the transfer of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2023\/06\/22\/messi-jay-returns-to-thai-league-with-bgpu\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;&#8220;Messi Jay&#8221; Returns to Thai League with BGPU&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":25965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,38],"tags":[1832,329,2428,127,2334,381,57,733,95,315,200,2341,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27860"}],"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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27861,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27860\/revisions\/27861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}