{"id":9672,"date":"2017-12-18T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2017-12-17T22:40:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T13:40:53","slug":"thailand-u-23-coach-zoran-jankovic-stays-optimistic-ahead-afc-u-23-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/12\/18\/thailand-u-23-coach-zoran-jankovic-stays-optimistic-ahead-afc-u-23-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand U-23 coach Zoran Jankovic stays optimistic ahead of AFC U-23 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thailand U-23 coach Zoran Jankovic has been optimistic about the chance of his side ahead of the challenging AFC U-23 Championship<\/a> in China next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese players are a good generation and we hope to show the best we can,\u201d Jankovic told the-AFC.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll try to fight. This team won at the SEA Games in Malaysia in August, but this is different.<\/p>\n

“If you compare the teams in Asia, it\u2019s different. It\u2019s a different style, the players have different bodies. Everything is different.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one part of this, but we have the best players here. They need to go up: it\u2019s like playing on a PlayStation, they need to go up to the next level. They must go up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the future of Thailand. For me, now, we have a very big group of players who can be a big part of the future for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

In next month’s continental\u00a0U-23 competition,\u00a0Thailand have been drawn in a difficult group, with games against Japan, DPR Korea, and Palestine.<\/p>\n

However, Jankovic and his side were only standing in the fourth position of six-team M-150 Championship, which was set to be the final test for the former Bulgaria international striker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thailand U-23 coach Zoran Jankovic has been optimistic about the chance of his side ahead of the challenging AFC U-23 Championship in China next month. \u201cThese players are a good generation and we hope to show the best we can,\u201d Jankovic told the-AFC.com. \u201cWe\u2019ll try to fight. This team won at the SEA Games in Malaysia in August, but this is different. “If you compare the teams in Asia, it\u2019s different. It\u2019s a different style, the players have different bodies. Everything is different. \u201cThat\u2019s one part of this, but we have the best players here. They need to go up: it\u2019s like playing on a PlayStation, they need to go … Continue reading “Thailand U-23 coach Zoran Jankovic stays optimistic ahead of AFC U-23 Championship”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[692,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672"}],"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=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}