Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) has decided to renew the contract with national U-22 head coach Ong Kim Swee.<\/p>\n
After guiding Malaysia U-22 to the 2017 SEA Games final, the name of Ong Kim Swee touted interest in several clubs in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
However, FAM has agreed to offer a one or two-year contract extension with the 46-year-old, whose current contract will expire on 31 December this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure I can still contribute to the national youth team,\u201d Ong told media reporters during the meeting with FAM on Tuesday, as quoted by Bola<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI have talked to Tunku Ismail [FAM president] and I believe his support and the football governing body will help the team achieve more success in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n After signing the contract, Ong has to face the task of preparing his team for the AFC U23 Championship in China next January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) has decided to renew the contract with national U-22 head coach Ong Kim Swee. After guiding Malaysia U-22 to the 2017 SEA Games final, the name of Ong Kim Swee touted interest in several clubs in Indonesia. However, FAM has agreed to offer a one or two-year contract extension with the 46-year-old, whose current contract will expire on 31 December this year. \u201cI\u2019m sure I can still contribute to the national youth team,\u201d Ong told media reporters during the meeting with FAM on Tuesday, as quoted by Bola. \u201cI have talked to Tunku Ismail [FAM president] and I believe his support and the football governing … Continue reading “Ong Kim Swee set to extend contract with FAM”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[556,64,215],"class_list":["post-7259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-fam","tag-malaysia","tag-ong-kim-swee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259","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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}