Thailand U-23 will play a warm-up match against Australia U-23 ahead of the\u00a0AFC U-23 Championship in China next month.<\/p>\n
The match has been scheduled to take place\u00a0at Qiantan Park Sports Centre, Shanghai, on 6 January.<\/p>\n
Before departing to China, coach\u00a0Zoran Jankovic and his side will prepare for the continental\u00a0competition with two matches against Thai League 1 sides Chonburi and Pattaya United before leaving for China on 3 January.<\/p>\n
“The game against Australia U23 team will be the last test for the team before the tournament and it will benefit our players a lot because they are strong and have great fitness,” Jankovic said, as quoted by the Bangkok Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It’s important that we play a warm-up against a team similar to our opponents in Group B.<\/p>\n “The players would also need to adapt to the weather in China, which is far more colder than Thailand.”<\/p>\n Thailand U-23 will kick off their Group B campaign against North Korea on 10 January, followed by the match against Japan<\/a> on Jan 13 and Palestine three days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thailand U-23 will play a warm-up match against Australia U-23 ahead of the\u00a0AFC U-23 Championship in China next month. The match has been scheduled to take place\u00a0at Qiantan Park Sports Centre, Shanghai, on 6 January. Before departing to China, coach\u00a0Zoran Jankovic and his side will prepare for the continental\u00a0competition with two matches against Thai League 1 sides Chonburi and Pattaya United before leaving for China on 3 January. “The game against Australia U23 team will be the last test for the team before the tournament and it will benefit our players a lot because they are strong and have great fitness,” Jankovic said, as quoted by the Bangkok Post. “It’s … Continue reading “Thailand to play warm-up match against Australia ahead of the 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":[692,110,68],"class_list":["post-9864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-2018-afc-u-23-championship","tag-australia","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864","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=9864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/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=9864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}