{"id":5239,"date":"2017-07-13T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2017-07-12T22:10:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T13:10:53","slug":"malaysia-head-coach-biggest-concern-national-team-finding-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/13\/malaysia-head-coach-biggest-concern-national-team-finding-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia head coach: My biggest concern with the national team is finding a striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having coached the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/07\/singapore-malaysia-drop-myanmar-fifa-rankings\/\">Malaysia national team<\/a> for over a month, Nelo Vingada believes he feels much more confident leading his squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a clearer vision now about the team, with the support of our staff. Our current mission is to find the right solution and correct what didn\u2019t go too well against Lebanon,\u201d the head coach told reporters during a press conference, as quoted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourthofficial.com\/2017\/49229\/nelo-vingada-explains-biggest-concern-malaysias-head-coach\/\">Fourth Official<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Portuguese coach thinks that finding a qualified striker is his biggest concern with the national team at the moment. \u201cMost teams in Malaysia employ a foreign striker, so it\u2019s difficult for me to find a local one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other positions, we can find solutions, but the striker position is tricky. We\u2019re also looking at the possibility of getting foreign players who are eligible for Malaysian passports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vingada&#8217;s first match ended in a disappointing 2-1 home defeat to Lebanon in the third round of 2019 AFC Asian Cup game on 13 June.<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysians will play 2 friendlies against Macau on 25 August and Myanmar four days laters ahead of their qualifying match at home to Hong Kong on 5 Sep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having coached the Malaysia national team for over a month, Nelo Vingada believes he feels much more confident leading his squad. \u201cI have a clearer vision now about the team, with the support of our staff. Our current mission is to find the right solution and correct what didn\u2019t go too well against Lebanon,\u201d the head coach told reporters during a press conference, as quoted by the Fourth Official. On the other hand, the Portuguese coach thinks that finding a qualified striker is his biggest concern with the national team at the moment. \u201cMost teams in Malaysia employ a foreign striker, so it\u2019s difficult for me to find a local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/13\/malaysia-head-coach-biggest-concern-national-team-finding-striker\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Malaysia head coach: My biggest concern with the national team is finding a striker&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[298,109,685,204,64],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-afc","tag-afc-asian-cup","tag-aff","tag-featured","tag-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239","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=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}