Thai football player and director

Kiatisuk “Zico” Senamuang ( Thai : เกียรติศักดิ์ เสนาเมือง ; born 11 August 1973 ) is a Thai football manager and former football player who played between 1989 and October 2007. During his eighteen-year career Kiatisuk played as a hitter and scored 251 goals in 339 appearances. The erstwhile hitter played for clubs in Malaysia, Singapore, England and Vietnam a 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 ) record as lead scorer. 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 coach 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 cabaret Huddersfield Town in 1999, which the then coach, Steve Bruce, considered merely a publicity stunt. After one season, in which he did not sport in the Huddersfield Town first team team, Kiatisuk left English football for Rajpracha Sports Club in Thailand, subsequently joining Singapore Armed Forces FC where he scored 15 goals in 20 games. In March 2002, he moved once again to become a asterisk in Vietnam with Hoàng Anh Gia Lai, where he helped win the V.League 1 title respective 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 question coach of Chonburi F.C. and led the clubhouse to win the 2009 Kor Royal Cup. [ 3 ] Kiatisuk managed to finish the temper in second place, with the highest points ever achieved by the baseball club. Nevertheless, after failing to secure the domestic league style he resigned .

second spell in Vietnam [edit ]

Kiatisuk went to Vietnam again to manage his erstwhile cabaret Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. He finished his season in the V-League in one-seventh place. He led Hoàng Anh Gia Lai to the final 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 passenger car of Chula United in Division 1. [ 4 ] He brought the golf club to third gear place by the goal of the season resulting in promotion to the 2012 Thai Premier League. After ten games in the lead league, Kiatisuk resigned from his position due to poor results : 1 acquire, 4 draw, and 5 losses. [ 5 ] A month former, Kiatisuk decided to join Bangkok F.C. in the 2012 Thai Division 1 League to help the baseball club to avoid delegating. [ 6 ] Bangkok survived in the second league of Thailand after finishing in tenth invest ( in the center of the mesa ) .

The national director [edit ]

In January 2013, Kiatisuk was appointed to be the capitulum coach of Thailand U-23. He won 1-0 in his debut equal in the friendly against Ayutthaya F.C. of Division 1 on 12 January. [ 7 ] In June 2013, Kiatisuk was appointed as the new Thai home team bus, replacing Winfried Schaefer in a caretaker capacity. He was besides responsible as the question coach for the Thai under-23 national football team preparing for the 2013 Southeast asian Games. [ 8 ] His debut couple 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 coach 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 neat Games from 1993 to 1999. He besides led Thailand U-23 to the semi-finals at 2014 asian Games and finished in 4th invest. In 2014, due to his success in 2014 asian Games, Kiatisuk was appointed to be the raw coach of Thailand to compete in the 2014 AFF Championship. Obtaining victory with a 4-3 aggregate score against Malaysia, Kiatisuk became the entirely person to win the ASEAN Football Championship as a player and as a coach. In 2015, for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round, Thailand was drawn in the same group as Iraq, Vietnam and Chinese Taipei. With Kiattisuk as director, the team to finished as the winner of the group with 14 points from 6 games. Thailand advanced to the final examination round of reservation. In 2016, Kiatisuk managed the Thai side in their defense of the 2016 AFF Championship. Having won all the games en route to the concluding, on 14 December Thailand lost 1-2 at Pakansari Stadium against Indonesia in the first leg of the final, despite having held the lead ( with a goal from Teerasil Dangda ) in the first gear half. Nevertheless, Thailand managed to secure a return of the trophy with a 2-0 win at Rajamangala Stadium and lifted their one-fifth regional deed on 17 December 2016. Kiatisuk Senamuang continued to coach Thailand in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Third Round. however, he managed to collect merely one point from 7 games of the reservation. After a 0-4 loss to Japan at Saitama Stadium 2002 on 28 March, three days late, after four years in tear, Kiatisuk stepped down from his put as the coach of the national team. [ 10 ]

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back to Hoàng Anh Gia Lai [edit ]

On 20 November 2020, Kiatisuk was appointed head coach of Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. [ 11 ] .Kiatisuk has signed a biennial abridge with his former vietnamese club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. His first match in charge was on 17 January 2021 aside against Saigon. The game ended in a 1-0 frustration [ 12 ] .On 22 January 2021, Kiatisuk won his first gear game in a 2-1 home win over Sông Lam Nghệ An. [ 13 ]

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 2 May 2021

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

International goals [edit ]

personal life [edit ]

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

Honours [edit ]

actor [edit ]

International [edit ]

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 ]

golf 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 player of Thailand U-23. His appoint in the plot is “ Senamuran ” ( セナムラン ) .

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

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