malaysian football player and director

Tan Cheng Hoe ( chinese : 陈清和 ) is a malaysian football coach and former football musician, who is presently in charge of the Malaysia national team .

career [edit ]

Playing career [edit ]

As a player, Tan played for Kedah in three Malaysia Cup finals from 1988 to 1990. He lost the 1988 and 1989 finals, but finally won the trophy in 1990.

Tan made an appearance for Malaysia in a match against Aston Villa on 20 May 1991. In September 1991, he was separate of Malaysia B team managed by M. Karathu for TAAN Cup, an invitational tournament in Kathmandu Nepal. [ 1 ] Malaysia B team won the tournament beat Tiong Bahru of Singapore 2–0. [ 2 ]

Managerial career [edit ]

Tan Cheng Hoe began his career at Kedah in 2003. Kedah were besides bang-up for Tan Cheng Hoe to stay in football and offered him the function of bus which he held until October 2004. Tan was the assistant coach to K. Rajagopal from 2004 to 2013. Tan Cheng Hoe worked as an Under 19s bus for malaysia from December 2004 until October 2009. Tan Cheng Hoe continued his development as coach for Harimau Muda from October 2007 until October 2009. Under Rajagopal and Tan, Malaysia achieved many good results such as reaching the quarter-finals of 2004 AFC Youth Championship and qualifying for the 2006 AFC Youth Championship. Malaysia besides ended their trophy drought in regional football by winning the 2009 SEA Games and 2010 AFF Championship. A break from football lasting 5 years then followed with Tan Cheng Hoe ‘s adjacent function as director at Kedah beginning in April 2014. [ 3 ] In 2015, he helped Kedah win the Premier League to gain promotion to the Super League. He was named the M-League ‘s Best Coach of the year at the 2016 National Football Awards following the success in Malaysia Cup, finishing third in the Super League and reached the FA Cup semi-finals. [ 4 ] Tan Cheng Hoe began his 2nd go with Malaysia in April 2017 as he took up the position of adjunct coach under Nelo Vingada. Tan Cheng Hoe was then made director at Malaysia after Vingada stepped down following a string of inadequate results. [ 5 ] In the planning for the 2018 AFF Championship, Tan had mentioned through an article published by the FOX Sports Asia that Malaysia are underdog team and hope their country fans will not put their hope besides much despite being drawn into a favorable Group A dwell of Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, adding the favourites in the group would be Vietnam and hope their players will not feel besides a lot pressure as there had been a lot of expectations from the fans. [ 6 ] surprisingly, he managed to lead Malaysia into the final after eliminating the tournament defending title american samoa well five times champions of Thailand in the semi-finals. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] This was continued in the finals first leg when the Malaysian team under his led besides managed to hold the tournament favourites of Vietnam 2–2 at home in their second suffer in the tournament despite the latter had already scoring two goals in the first one-half. [ 9 ] however, in the second leg in Hanoi, his team failed to repeat the same success when the favourites scored a goal in the early first half of 6th infinitesimal and began tightening their defense, resulting in a 2–3 aggregate until the end of the pit as a consequence of which Malaysia became the runner-up for the third gear time. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Tan continued to lead the malaysian team in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification after he been reward by the Football Association of Malaysia ( FAM ) to manage the team for another two years until his contract ended in 2020. [ 12 ] Although the team under his management able to easily routed Timor-Leste in the inaugural cycle by 12–2 in aggregate to proceed into the irregular round, the team only able to defeating Indonesia by 3–2 in an away match before losing two matches against United Arab Emirates in home by 1–2 and against Vietnam by 0–1 in an away match where they meet again for the fourthly time through his managerial career despite of all the promises Tan has made earlier to the malaysian fans before the competition started. [ 13 ] After the two back-to-back defeats, he then led Malaysia to win one of the most celebrated matches in their history, beating neighbour and Southeast Asian power station Thailand 2–1 to extend its unbeaten stripe at home to Thailand, and Indonesia 2–0 besides at home plate to keep maintaining Malaysia ‘s World Cup dream alert. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In terms of personal accolades, Tan Cheng Hoe has a single malaysian Manager of the Year award to his appoint .

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 19 December 2021
Team From To Record
G W D L Win%
Kedah 10 April 2014[3] 29 April 2017 106 59 28 19 0

55.66

Malaysia 7 December 2017[16] Present 40 20 4 16 0 50.00
Total 146 79 32 35 0 54.11

Honours [edit ]

director [edit ]

Kedah
Malaysia
Individual

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