Former Thailand national team head coach Kiatisuk Senamuang believed the final Group B clash against heavy contenders Vietnam would be the \u201cmoment of truth\u201d for Thailand U-22 team at this year’s SEA Games.<\/p>\n
Discussing the strength of Thailand and Vietnam, Kiatisuk commented that it would be difficult for his compatriots to overcome their long-time rivals in the crucial match on Selayang Stadium on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it is not easy for Thailand U-22 to defend their gold medal,\u201d the current Port FC coach told Tien Phong reporters.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHead coach Worrawoot Srimaka has taken a serious preparation for his team in this tournament. Unfortunately, they had to face such a strong opponents as Indonesia in the opening match. The final group match against Vietnam will be difficult for them since Vietnam have proven to be a strong team this year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n On the other hand, Kiatisuk warned Worrawoot and his men <\/a>about the attacking strength of Vietnam.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I have some words to tell Thailand team, I will tell them to stay alert of Cong Phuong. He’s Vietnam best player,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Thailand national team head coach Kiatisuk Senamuang believed the final Group B clash against heavy contenders Vietnam would be the \u201cmoment of truth\u201d for Thailand U-22 team at this year’s SEA Games. Discussing the strength of Thailand and Vietnam, Kiatisuk commented that it would be difficult for his compatriots to overcome their long-time rivals in the crucial match on Selayang Stadium on Thursday afternoon. \u201cI think it is not easy for Thailand U-22 to defend their gold medal,\u201d the current Port FC coach told Tien Phong reporters. \u201cHead coach Worrawoot Srimaka has taken a serious preparation for his team in this tournament. Unfortunately, they had to face such a … Continue reading “Kiatisuk Senamuang: It is not easy for Thailand U-22 to defend their gold medal”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[411,69,68,105],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-kiatisuk-senamuang","tag-sea-games","tag-thailand","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","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=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}