Cambodia head coach Leonardo Vitorino has responded to massive criticism after his side continued to disappoint on the international stage as they suffered a heavy 5-0 defeat to Vietnam in their 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will never give up! Before I come to Cambodia I know that this was the results and the history at past. I was hired to do a long-term job,\u201d said the Brazilian to the Khmer Times on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe in the future of Cambodia football. And I will do what is right always so that the results will come in the future. If you do not believe me, I believe in the future of football in this country.<\/p>\n \u201cWhoever believes come, walk with me and watch the League closely, the training and the games. I work for Cambodia and I will not give up improving the future of football in this country that has welcomed me so well!<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn order to achieve a great achievement, we must go through the difficult paths of life, and walking together everything be easier.\u201d<\/p>\n Cambodia have struggled in group C after delivering a shocking win against Afghanistan in July.\u00a0The Koupreys have maintained their third place position in the group ahead of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cambodia head coach Leonardo Vitorino has responded to massive criticism after his side continued to disappoint on the international stage as they suffered a heavy 5-0 defeat to Vietnam in their 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifier on Tuesday. \u201cI will never give up! Before I come to Cambodia I know that this was the results and the history at past. I was hired to do a long-term job,\u201d said the Brazilian to the Khmer Times on Thursday. \u201cI believe in the future of Cambodia football. And I will do what is right always so that the results will come in the future. If you do not believe me, I believe … Continue reading “Cambodia coach Leonardo Vitorino vows to never give up”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[858],"tags":[109,254,849],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cambodia","tag-afc-asian-cup","tag-cambodia","tag-leonardo-vitorino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","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=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}