The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) president has defended\u00a0national head coach Nelo Vingada despite the team’s 2-0 loss to Hong Kong\u00a0in AFC Asian Cup qualifying on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Crown Prince of Johor, also known as TMJ, said that it would be unfair to sack the Portuguese coach and insisted\u00a0the biggest problem with the national squad now was the lack of winning mentality among players.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Vingada is sacked, you will still have the same problem,” TMJ said\u00a0when answering questions from a panel at a dialogue session at JDT Cafe on Wednesday night, as quoted by the Malay Mail Online.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe reality is when setting up the club (JDT), we needed two to three years to instill the winning mentality.<\/p>\n \u201cSo what do you expect from us in two to three months?”<\/p>\n Vingada and his side will have to face a tough challenge since Malaysia have just one point after three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) president has defended\u00a0national head coach Nelo Vingada despite the team’s 2-0 loss to Hong Kong\u00a0in AFC Asian Cup qualifying on Tuesday. The Crown Prince of Johor, also known as TMJ, said that it would be unfair to sack the Portuguese coach and insisted\u00a0the biggest problem with the national squad now was the lack of winning mentality among players. \u201cIf Vingada is sacked, you will still have the same problem,” TMJ said\u00a0when answering questions from a panel at a dialogue session at JDT Cafe on Wednesday night, as quoted by the Malay Mail Online. \u201cThe reality is when setting up the club (JDT), we needed … Continue reading “FAM President: Nelo Vingada will stay as Malaysia coach”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[109,926,556,66,64,555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859"}],"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=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}