{"id":2917,"date":"2017-04-18T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2017-05-30T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:46:25","slug":"top-6-southeast-asian-footballers-goals-scored-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/04\/18\/top-6-southeast-asian-footballers-goals-scored-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Southeast Asian footballers with most goals scored for national team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiatisuk Senamuang may have failed at guiding Thailand to a successful World Cup qualification campaign, but his legacy at the Thai national team cannot be taken lightly. The decorated striker holds the national records for both appearances and goals scored.<\/p>\n

Football Tribe Asia takes a look at Kiatisuk’s scoring records, as well as those of other fellow top scorers from around Southeast Asia, according to data provided by the\u00a0Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF).<\/p>\n

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1. Kiatisuk Senamuang (Thailand – 71 goals, 134 apps)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former striker and manager of Thai national team, Kiatisuk Senamuang enjoyed an illustrious career at the international level.<\/p>\n

Kiatisuk holds the Thai national records for matches played (134) and goals scored (71) for the national team.<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old won the ASEAN Football Championship five times, thrice as a player in 1996, 2000, 2002 and twice as a manager in 2014 and 2016.<\/p>\n

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2. (Thailand – 70 goals, 100 apps)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Piyapong Pue-on was undoubtedly one of the top strikers of Thailand in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

In his 16-year career with the Thai national team (1981-1997),\u00a0Piyapong Pue-on scored 70 goals in 100 appearances\u00a0in full international matches.<\/p>\n

He also spent two years at Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso (now known as FC Seoul), from 1984 to 1986.<\/p>\n

He played one of the leading roles to crown the Lucky-Goldstar as the K-League champions in 1985, scoring 12 goals and providing 6 assists.<\/p>\n

The striker won the K-League Top Scorer Award and K-League Top Assists Award in 1985. He was also voted into the K-League Best XI the same year.<\/p>\n

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3. Fandi Ahmad (Singapore – 55 goals, 101 apps)<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the Singapore national football team, Fandi won 101 caps, scored 55 goals.<\/p>\n

He won three Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) silver medals (1983, 1985, 1989) and three bronze medals (1991, 1993, 1995) and was captain from 1993 to 1997.<\/p>\n

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4. L\u00ea C\u00f4ng Vinh (Vietnam – \u00a051 goals, 83 apps)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part of the Vietnamese set-up from 2004 to 2016, L\u00ea C\u00f4ng Vinh is the country’s top scorer with 51 goals from 83 appearances.<\/p>\n

Vinh’s most memorable moment with Vietnam national team was when he\u00a0headed home the tying goal in the last minute time to give Vietnam the first ever ASEAN Football Championship title in 2008.<\/p>\n

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5. Phil Younghusband (Philippines – 45 goals, 87 apps)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Phil Younghusband and his older brother, James, were called up to the Southeast Asian nation’s football squad in 2005 after making their name in Chelsea youth teams.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old footballer is still active with the national team. He has won 87 caps and scored 45 goals.<\/p>\n

His best achievement to date with the Philippines was finishing third at the\u00a02012 AFC Challenge Cup. He also won the Golden Boot in the same tournament after netting 6 goals.<\/p>\n

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6. Teerasil Dangda (Thailand – 42 goals, 87 apps)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three-time top scorer of the ASEAN Football Championship in 2008, 2012 and 2016, Teerasil Dangda is a force to be reckoned with in recent years for Thailand.<\/p>\n

The deep-lying forward helped his side win the\u00a0ASEAN Football Championship in 2016 and finish runners-up twice in 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n

In total, Dangda has scored 42 goals after 87 games for Thailand, although the tally could increase in the future as he is still active with the national team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kiatisuk Senamuang may have failed at guiding Thailand to a successful World Cup qualification campaign, but his legacy at the Thai national team cannot be taken lightly. The decorated striker holds the national records for both appearances and goals scored. Football Tribe Asia takes a look at Kiatisuk’s scoring records, as well as those of other fellow top scorers from around Southeast Asia, according to data provided by the\u00a0Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,26],"tags":[204,411,325,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"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=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}