Kiatisuk Senamuang
, Also called Kiatisak Senamuang " Zico " ( Thai: เกียรติศักดิ์ เสนา เมือง; born August 11, 1973 in Udon Thani, Thailand ) is a former Thai football player. He was one of the best and most popular players in Asia. Nicknamed " Zico " he was inspired by the great Brazilian player Zico, because of his tricks and dribbles. Today he is head coach of the Thai Chonburi FC first division. His biggest goal is to be able to qualify even as a coach with the Thai national football team for FIFA World Cup. As a player, He was denied this experience.
- 3.1 Awards as a player
- 3.2 successes as a player 3.2.1 Singapore Armed Forces
- Hoang Anh Gia Lai 3.2.2
- 3.2.3 national
Club career
He started his career in 1989 at FC Krung Thai Bank at the age of 16 years. There he played for six years before he first moved over the stations Raj Pracha FC and FC Royal Thai Police abroad to Malaysia Perlis for FA. But he then gave up his job with the police. In the summer of 1999 he was invited to a trial with Middlesbrough FC. However, he could not me exercising Once there, he could not show a temporary transfer certificate of his club Raj Pracha. In September of the same year Zico received a contract offer from Huddersfield Town a club from the former second English league. However, the negotiations and arrangements dragged on for two months. On 22 November 1999 Kiatisak could sign the contract. His salary amounted to about 1,000 pounds per week. He stood where he was rarely used only in the reserve squad of the club. He tried everything to cope with the strange circumstances and even ate typical English food. His attempts to get used to English football, he expressed later as follows: "When I joined, I did nothing but physical training falling on the first three months. I had to train like the English so I started to eat boiled chicken, potatoes and baked beans every day. I still can not believe i could eat that ... ". A trial at Crystal Palace, during his time in England, his last attempt was still to be reckoned with. In a friendly match between Crystal Palace and Northampton Town he was doing on in the second half, but could make no permanent impression.
He then went for a short time back to Thailand, and then straight on to move to Singapore. When FC Singapore Armed Forces he was able to finally celebrate his first title when he was 2002 champion. He scoring 15 goals in 20 games. He then moved in 2002 to Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai. He led this club from the second league to two league titles, even be characterized as Player of the Year of the V -League, he reached the peak of his career in 2003 and 2004. 2004. Tawan Sripan, with whom he is friends, then followed him in 2004 to Vietnam Hoang Anh Gia Lai. At 33, he went back to Thailand and moved to BEC Tero Sasana together with Tawan Sripan, where he still completed a season and then finished his career.
After the end of his active career, he began to work as a coach. In 2008, he initially trained the Premier League team FC Chula - Sinthana. Since 2009 he has been head coach of FC Chonburi.
National team career
His first cap for Thailand, he denied on April 8, 1993 Kobe against Japan. His first title with the national team, he was able to win in 1993, when Thailand won the Southeast Asian Games. It should be three more follow up to 1999 and he was doing well scorer in 1999. 2004, he joined the first time back from the national team, but around 2006 come back. The goal was winning the King 's Cup in 2007, and succeeded. In October 2007 Kiatisuk played his farewell game. It was played in Suphachalasai Stadium. Opponent was the national team of the United Arab Emirates.
Statistics with the national
The official statistics according to which he has completed 130 caps and scored 65 goals in the process. In unofficial census, it comes in part to 141 international matches and up to 100 goals he should have made for Thailand. Both national record in every case. The following is a summary of his official international appearances.
Awards and achievements
Awards as a player
- Southeast Asian Games: top scorer in 1999
- ASEAN Football Championship: Player of the Tournament 2000
- AFC Monthly award in January 2001
- V-League Player of the Year: 2004
Successes as a player
Singapore Armed Forces
- S-League: Vice Champion 2001, Champion 2002
Hoang Anh Gia Lai
- V-League: Champion 2003, 2004
- Vietnam Super Cup: winner 2003, 2004
National
- Asian Games 4th place in 1998, 2002
- ASEAN Football Championship: winner 1996, 2000, 2002
- Southeast Asian Games: Gold medal 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
- King's Cup: Winners 2000, 2007
Private
Kiatisak is married and has three children. He founded the Foundation " Zico for Kids" whose aim is to provide children with free football equipment. The first money came from the proceeds of a book which Zico wrote.