Masatada Ishii, head coach of the Thai national team, led his players to practice 1 hour earlier than usual to avoid the rain before the final match against Syria tomorrow (14 October) in the King’s Cup football tournament.
Movement of Thai national football players in preparation before entering the field for the final match of the 50th King’s Cup football tournament against Syria, ranked 92nd in the world, tomorrow (14 Oct.) This evening, Masatada Ishii, the head coach of the Thai national team, led the players in training at the Prince of Songkla University Stadium for the last time.
Today, Ishii led the players in practice 1 hour earlier than usual. Normally, for the past 6 days, the Thai team would practice at 5:00 PM, but today they practiced at 4:00 PM so that the players would not get caught in the rain, as it rains at 5:30 PM every day. Today, fans were not allowed to watch the practice as usual, and the media was allowed to take pictures for the first 15 minutes. Ishii focused mainly on tactics an
d reviewing the teamwork system.
Meanwhile in the afternoon, Masatada Ishii and Jonathan Khemdee, defenders, along with Jose Lana, Syria’s Spanish coach, held a press conference before the match at Tinsulanont Stadium. Ishii said that the previous encounter with Syria involved a different set of players, and this time it was different, so he could not answer how different the quality of that team was. However, he had prepared a game plan. As for the players, none of them were seriously injured and everyone was ready to play.
While Jonathan said that it will definitely be a difficult game because Syria is a good team. We are ready to play and hope to win the championship for the fans. We invite the fans to come and fill the stadium. We hope that this game will be fun. We hope that Thailand will win the championship.
Syria’s Jose Lana said the expectation was to do their best and be better than the last game, but Syria came prepared and will play with their best players.
The competition schedule for October
14th at 4:30 p.m. is the 3rd place match between the Philippines and Tajakistan, and the final match at 8:00 p.m. is between the Thai national team and Syria at the Tinsulanon Stadium.
Source: Thai News Agency