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What's the latest? Anyone know? Two articles in today's Bangkok Post, here and here. It's nonsense
that this saga can be allowed to drag on for so long. In November the Thais face two crucial Asian
Cup qualifiiers against Singapore but this confusion can't be helping.
Nobody, neither Reid with his silence nor the head of the Thai FA Worawi with his grandiose
statements, is coming out of this smelling of roses.
With Benny Dollo now installed as Technical Director with Persija and his contract with the
Indonesian FA set to expire at the end of January 2010 thoughts turn to who will succeed him. And
there will be a succession even though no one has discussed it openly yet.
The favourite is Rahmad Darmawan, the hugely successful Sriwijaya coach.
While Omar and his boys from Bahrain were shooting down the Saudis in the Kingdom, New Zealand were
in that other Kingdom kicking it with the Hashemites. It was an experience. New Zealand won the
friendly 3-1. The Hashemites ain't got game no mo'.
New Zealand fancy their chances now.
Former England captain Bryan Robson is set to become Thailand's national team coach, Football
Association of Thailand (FAT) president Worawi Makudi said yesterday.
"There is a very high chance that Robson will become the next coach of Thailand," Worawi said.
Robson, 52, would replace Peter Reid, another ex-England international, who parted company with
Thailand recently to become Stoke City's assistant coach.
It's a pity that Branko Culina's undignified, self-serving comments at Sunday's press conference
have served to obscure the fact that he does have a point. He developed that point somewhat
truculently in his "clarification" today, pausing for a moment to offer Vitezslav Lavicka a
well-deserved apology.
Leading striker Le Cong Vinh has not been named in the national team picked for the upcoming HCMC
Cup and 2011 Asian Cup qualifying matches.
Speaking on the phone to Thanh Nien from Kunming, China on Tuesday, Calisto said he didn't include
Vinh because the latter was now playing for Portugal's top-flight league club Leixoes.
TOR CHITTINAND
Former England captain Bryan Robson is looking forward to the challenge when he begins his reign as
the national team coach next month.
Robson agreed to coach Thailand after talks with with Football Association of Thailand (FAT)
president Worawi Makudi yesterday.
