{"id":9137,"date":"2017-11-28T01:35:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2017-11-28T01:35:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:35:50","slug":"pattaya-united-sign-philippines-internationals-hikaru-minegishi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/28\/pattaya-united-sign-philippines-internationals-hikaru-minegishi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattaya United to sign Philippines international Hikaru Minegishi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pattaya United are on the verge of signing Philippines international&#8217;s Hikaru Minegishi from Global Cebu, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/th\/%E0%B8%82%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A7\/%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AA\/cv0jg1bthc2b1ml2g0nxcndep\">according to reports from Goal Thailand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/25\/jdt-sign-canadian-international-defender-lavere-corbin-ong\/\">the new regulation<\/a>, Thai League\u00a01 and Thai Division 1 League clubs will be allowed to register three foreign players, one Asian player, and one ASEAN player. Previously, clubs are allowed to register four foreign players and one Asian player.<\/p>\n<p>Born to a Filipino mother and a Japanese father,\u00a0Minegishi began his career in the youth system of the Urawa Red Diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the Filipino descent enables him to\u00a0be classified as a naturalized player, rather than one of the foreign quota.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015,\u00a0Minegishi was persuaded to play professional football in the Philippines with Global Cebu. With 17 goals in 17 league appearances for Global in the 2016\u00a0United Football League season, the 26-year-old\u00a0was awarded the Golden Ball at the end of the season<\/p>\n<p>Minegishi made his debut for the Azkals in\u00a0the group stage of the 2016 AFF Suzuki Cup against Singapore,\u00a0coming on as a half-time substitute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pattaya United are on the verge of signing Philippines international&#8217;s Hikaru Minegishi from Global Cebu, according to reports from Goal Thailand. Under the new regulation, Thai League\u00a01 and Thai Division 1 League clubs will be allowed to register three foreign players, one Asian player, and one ASEAN player. Previously, clubs are allowed to register four foreign players and one Asian player. Born to a Filipino mother and a Japanese father,\u00a0Minegishi began his career in the youth system of the Urawa Red Diamonds. Therefore, the Filipino descent enables him to\u00a0be classified as a naturalized player, rather than one of the foreign quota. In 2015,\u00a0Minegishi was persuaded to play professional football in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/28\/pattaya-united-sign-philippines-internationals-hikaru-minegishi\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Pattaya United to sign Philippines international Hikaru Minegishi&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[691,106,228],"class_list":["post-9137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-pattaya-united","tag-philippines","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137","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=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}