{"id":5991,"date":"2017-08-12T19:27:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T10:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2017-08-12T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T10:27:58","slug":"coach-gerd-zeise-sets-target-myanmar-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/12\/coach-gerd-zeise-sets-target-myanmar-sea-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Gerd Zeise sets target for Myanmar at SEA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar U22 head coach Gerd Zeise has set the semi-finals as the target for his charges at the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/08\/malaysia-fa-president-targets-gold-medal-sea-games\/\">2017 SEA Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The German coach believes his team can achieve the target based on their silver-medal finish at Singapore 2015, when they lost 3-0 to Thailand in the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must first clear the preliminary hurdles before thinking about the semi-finals. I\u2019m confident my boys will be ready for the challenge,\u201d Zeise told reporters after the team\u2019s arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on Friday, as quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/sport\/football\/2017\/08\/12\/philippines-and-myanmar-set-semifinal-target-for-football\/\">the Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Zeise still warned his players not to underestimate the other teams in Group A, including hosts Malaysia, Singapore, Laos and Brunei.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot underestimate our rivals. Malaysia are a strong team. Singapore are OK, we have played them before (and won), Laos are improving while Brunei are also OK, not too strong,\u201d he said to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/node\/266792\">The Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar will kick-off their campaign against Singapore on 14 August at the Selayang Municipal Council Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar U22 head coach Gerd Zeise has set the semi-finals as the target for his charges at the 2017 SEA Games. The German coach believes his team can achieve the target based on their silver-medal finish at Singapore 2015, when they lost 3-0 to Thailand in the final. \u201cWe must first clear the preliminary hurdles before thinking about the semi-finals. I\u2019m confident my boys will be ready for the challenge,\u201d Zeise told reporters after the team\u2019s arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on Friday, as quoted by the Star. However, Zeise still warned his players not to underestimate the other teams in Group A, including hosts Malaysia, Singapore, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/12\/coach-gerd-zeise-sets-target-myanmar-sea-games\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Coach Gerd Zeise sets target for Myanmar at SEA Games&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[343,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991"}],"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=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}