Thai football player and coach

Kiatisuk “Zico” Senamuang ( Thai : เกียรติศักดิ์ เสนาเมือง ; born 11 August 1973 ) is a Thai football coach and former football player who played between 1989 and October 2007. During his eighteen-year career Kiatisuk played as a striker and scored 251 goals in 339 appearances. The former striker played for clubs in Malaysia, Singapore, England and Vietnam ampere well as in his fatherland. Kiatisuk besides earned 131 caps and scored 70 goals for Thailand between 1992 and 2007. [ 1 ] In 1996, while playing for Raj Pracha FC Kiatisuk scored 127 goals in 71 games, achieving an ( unrecognized ) criminal record as top scorekeeper. between 2014 and 2017, Kiatisuk was coach of the Thai senior team and, ( 2013–2016 ), the Thailand U-23 team. previously, in 2013, he had besides been the caretaker coach of Thailand. [ 2 ]

Kiatisuk has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Dhurakij Pundit University and Master of Business Administration from Chandrakasem Rajabhat University. He is presently the director of V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai .

Playing career [edit ]

Club career [edit ]

Kiatisuk Senamuang played with Perlis in Malaysia before joining an english clubhouse Huddersfield Town in 1999, which the then coach, Steve Bruce, considered merely a publicity stunt. After one season, in which he did not feature of speech in the Huddersfield Town first team squad, Kiatisuk left English football for Rajpracha Sports Club in Thailand, later joining Singapore Armed Forces FC where he scored 15 goals in 20 games. In March 2002, he moved once again to become a star in Vietnam with Hoàng Anh Gia Lai, where he helped win the V.League 1 title several times. He returned to play for the Thailand national football team in the King ‘s Cup .

International career [edit ]

Kiatisuk played 131 international matches and scored 70 goals for the national team. Both figures are Thai national records .

Managerial career [edit ]

Senamuang in 2010

Vietnam [edit ]

After retiring from playing in 2006, Kiatisuk went straight into management with V-League side Hoàng Anh Gia Lai

return to Thailand [edit ]

In 2008, Kiatisuk returned to Thailand to take charge of Chula United. In 2009, Kiatisuk became the head coach of Chonburi F.C. and led the club to win the 2009 Kor Royal Cup. [ 3 ] Kiatisuk managed to finish the season in second identify, with the highest points always achieved by the golf club. Nevertheless, after failing to secure the domestic league entitle he resigned .

second enchantment in Vietnam [edit ]

Kiatisuk went to Vietnam again to manage his former club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. He finished his season in the V-League in seventh position. He led Hoàng Anh Gia Lai to the final examination of the 2010 vietnamese Cup but lost 0-1 to Sông Lam Nghệ An at Thống Nhất Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City .

back to Thailand again [edit ]

In December 2010, Kiatisuk returned to Thailand as the head coach of Chula United in Division 1. [ 4 ] He brought the golf club to one-third station by the end of the season resulting in forwarding to the 2012 Thai Premier League. After ten games in the exceed league, Kiatisuk resigned from his position due to poor results : 1 acquire, 4 draw, and 5 losses. [ 5 ] A calendar month by and by, Kiatisuk decided to join Bangkok F.C. in the 2012 Thai Division 1 League to help the clubhouse to avoid relegation. [ 6 ] Bangkok survived in the moment league of Thailand after finishing in tenth put ( in the middle of the table ) .

The national coach [edit ]

In January 2013, Kiatisuk was appointed to be the capitulum coach of Thailand U-23. He won 1-0 in his introduction match in the friendly against Ayutthaya F.C. of Division 1 on 12 January. [ 7 ] In June 2013, Kiatisuk was appointed as the new Thai national team coach, replacing Winfried Schaefer in a caretaker capacity. He was besides responsible as the fountainhead coach for the Thai under-23 national football team preparing for the 2013 Southeast asian Games. [ 8 ] His debut match as coach of the War Elephants was in a friendly against China on 15 June 2013, which the Thais won 5-1. [ 9 ] As head bus of Thailand U-23, Kiatisuk guided the team to 2013 SEA Games football gold, adding to 4 golds he won as a player in 4 directly Games from 1993 to 1999. He besides led Thailand U-23 to the semi-finals at 2014 asian Games and finished in 4th space. In 2014, due to his success in 2014 asian Games, Kiatisuk was appointed to be the new director of Thailand to compete in the 2014 AFF Championship. Obtaining victory with a 4-3 sum score against Malaysia, Kiatisuk became the only person to win the ASEAN Football Championship as a player and as a coach. In 2015, for the 2018 FIFA World Cup reservation – AFC Second Round, Thailand was drawn in the like group as Iraq, Vietnam and Chinese Taipei. With Kiattisuk as coach, the team to finished as the achiever of the group with 14 points from 6 games. Thailand advanced to the final round of qualification. In 2016, Kiatisuk managed the Thai side in their defense of the 2016 AFF Championship. Having won all the games en path to the final, on 14 December Thailand lost 1-2 at Pakansari Stadium against Indonesia in the first leg of the concluding, despite having held the lead ( with a goal from Teerasil Dangda ) in the first half. Nevertheless, Thailand managed to secure a return of the trophy with a 2-0 winnings at Rajamangala Stadium and lifted their one-fifth regional title on 17 December 2016. Kiatisuk Senamuang continued to coach Thailand in the 2018 FIFA World Cup reservation – AFC Third Round. however, he managed to collect entirely one point from 7 games of the qualification. After a 0-4 loss to Japan at Saitama Stadium 2002 on 28 March, three days late, after four years in charge, Kiatisuk stepped down from his placement as the director of the home team. [ 10 ]

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spinal column to Hoàng Anh Gia Lai [edit ]

On 20 November 2020, Kiatisuk was appointed lead coach of Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. [ 11 ] .Kiatisuk has signed a biennial shrink with his former vietnamese club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. His first match in accusation was on 17 January 2021 away against Saigon. The game ended in a 1-0 get the better of [ 12 ] .On 22 January 2021, Kiatisuk won his first game in a 2-1 dwelling winnings over Sông Lam Nghệ An. [ 13 ]

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 2 May 2021

1 A gain or loss by penalty shoot-out is counted as a draw.
2 Kiatisuk Senamuang managed the team on a one-off basis as caretaker-manager.
3 only FIFA approved games are counted for Thailand .

International goals [edit ]

personal animation [edit ]

Kiatisuk is a Buddhist behave in Udon Thani. Before he became a professional football musician, he worked as a police officer, but always had a love for football. According to a acquaintance, “ his move to football was prompted by insecurity ”. He was given the nickname Zico by his friends, in honor of his front-runner brazilian football paragon Zico. Kiatisuk learned Vietnamese and spoke fluently vietnamese language just after 1-2 years during his career in Vietnam .

Honours [edit ]

player [edit ]

International [edit ]

baseball club [edit ]

Krung Thai Bank
  • Kor Royal Cup Winners (1); 1989
  • Khǒr Royal Cup Winners (1); 1993
Singapore Armed Forces
  • S.League Winners (1); 2002
Hoang Anh Gia Lai
  • V.League 1 Winners (2); 2003, 2004
  • Vietnamese Super Cup Winners (2); 2003, 2004

individual [edit ]

coach [edit ]

International [edit ]

club [edit ]

Hoang Anh Gia Lai
  • Vietnamese National Cup runner-up; 2010

Individual

Video games [edit ]

Kiatisuk Senamuang appears in World Soccer Jikkyou Winning Eleven 2000 : U-23 Medal Heno Chousen as a musician of Thailand U-23. His appoint in the game is “ Senamuran ” ( セナムラン ) .

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