Surachai Jaturapattarapong
Surachai Jaturapattarapong ( Thai: สุร ชัย จตุร ภัทร พง ษ์, born November 20, 1969 in Bangkok ) is a former Thai football player and current coach. Since June 2009, he coached the Bangkok Glass FC.
Playing career
From 1991 to 1996 Surachai played at the FC Thai Farmers Bank. It was the most successful era of his active career. He won with the club a total of three league titles and the 1994 and 1995 AFC Champions League. In 1998 he joined the club and went to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration FC where he played until the end of 2000. He then moved to Singapore in the S. League to Gombak United. The club withdrew from the league back in 2002 and Surachai went to Home United. There he played until 2005, rather he ended his club career.
His career in the national team he has already started in the U-14 Thailand. About the U -16 and U- 19, he made it to the seniors, where he graduated in 1991 his first game. In the finals of the ASEAN Football Championship 2001 Surachai made his last game for the national team. On February 23, 2005 he was awarded by the Thai Football Association a farewell game. In this game a Thai Allstar selection was up against his last club Home United. The game was broadcast nationwide on television. The total revenue around the game, a total of 1.2 million baht went to Surachai.
With the Thai national team, he won four gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games, and won three times in succession, the ASEAN Football Championship. He took 1992, 1996 and 2000 at the Asian Cup in part.
Coaching career
After he had finished his active career as a football player in 2005, he became an assistant coach at Home United. In June 2009, he became head coach of the Bangkok Glass FC and so succeeds Hans Emser, acting as Technical Director of the Youth Training Centre ever since. He held until June 2010 until he was replaced by the Brazilian Carlos Roberto de Carvalho this office.
Awards and achievements
Awards as a player
- Player of the Year in the S- League 2004
Successes as a player
FC Thai Farmers Bank
- Thai Premier League Champion 1992, 1993, 1995
- Queen's Cup winner in 1994, 1995, 1996
- AFC Champions League winners in 1994, 1995 and 3rd place in 1996
Home United
- S-League: Champion 2003, Vice- Champion 2004
- Singapore Cup: winner 2003, 2005 and finalist 2004
- AFC Cup: Semi-finals 2004
National
- Participate in the final competition for Asian Cup 1992, 1996, 2000
- Asian Games: 4th place 1984
- Southeast Asian Games: Gold medal 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
- ASEAN Football Championship: winner 1996, 2000, 2002