Thailand appoints first woman in charge of national men's football team - vows to restore pride

[webfact]

Picture: Sanook

 

Thailand has broken new ground in appointing a woman to be the coach of their national men's football team and under 23 team.

 

She is Nualphan Lamsam who is widely known by her nickname of Madam Pang. 

 

She has vowed to restore pride in the national team - known as the War Elephants - who recently failed to qualify for the 2022 world Cup that will be held in Qatar at the end of next year, reported Sanook. 

 

Nualphan is the current chairman of League 1 side Port but said there would be no conflict of interest after she was handed the job by Football Association of Thailand president Somyot Poompunmuang.

 

The last manager was Akira Nishino who was sacked after the latest World Cup failure. The national team have changed their coach almost as many times as their jerseys, notes ASEAN NOW.

 

Nualphan said she would likely hand over the U-23 reins to someone else.

 

She was formerly in charge of the Thai women's football team that made it to the women's world cup in 2015 and 2019.

 

Calling for more funds to raise the success of the national team she has targeted success in the AFF Suzuki Cup and the SE Asian Championships in December and January to begin her reign.

 

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[pegman]

Real woman or other  dimension type?  

[internationalism]

apart from befriending certain royals (that includes prince harry), from which she draws her fame and influence,  she also coined with dr Anutin a grand scheme of favouring the Siam Bioscience over the other producers. Hence, the vax program is now in position it is, forced to be content with sinovac

Edited August 24, 2021 by internationalism

[FritsSikkink]

1 hour ago, internationalism said:

apart from befriending certain royals (that includes prince harry), from which she draws her fame and influence,  she also coined with dr Anutin a grand scheme of favouring the Siam Bioscience over the other producers. Hence, the vax program is now in position it is, forced to be content with sinovac

You are rambling again: "She was formerly in charge of the Thai women's football team that made it to the women's world cup in 2015 and 2019." She has a good track record in coaching.

[internationalism]

9 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

You are rambling again: "She was formerly in charge of the Thai women's football team that made it to the women's world cup in 2015 and 2019." She has a good track record in coaching.

yes, and her sport qualifications is being $3bln rich socialite. That's what I have tried to point in the first place.

 

wikipedia says only "She is the main benefactor of the Thai women's national football team". There is a difference being a coach and benefactor, chairwoman. 

Edited August 24, 2021 by internationalism

[trainman34014]

Laughable; truth is who else would want to be the Manager of a squad of know it all Numpty's ?    You could put Klopp or Peppy in charge and they would still win nothing as they are all so 'clever' they are not interested in what any Coach tells them !

[klauskunkel]

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Thailand appoints first woman

Thailand appoints...,

so, what kind of General is she, then?

[Eric Loh]

Looks like a well choreographed coup by the bigwigs in FAT to give her the coaching role. Coach Akira sacking seem unjustifiable as he didn’t have most of the key players who were either in Japan or injured. He also didn’t have sufficient friendliest due to covid. FAT shouldn’t have sacked him as he did have some good results before covid. How could coach Pang able to command respect with the National players when her credential was coaching the women NT. She better off being a manger rather than coach. Her earliest test will be the Suzuki Cup in December. 

[jerrymahoney]

Four decisions Thailand got wrong in its Covid-19 fight so far
June 16, 2021

 

For some reason, the Thai government chose to rely on locally produced AstraZeneca and imported Sinovac Vaccine. It has been a disastrous decision with local AZ doses delayed and Sinovac Vaccines showing less than stellar real world results.

 

The decision to basically rely on an unproven company in Siam Bioscience to produce vaccines has been criticized from all corners including by Siam Bioscience spokeswoman Nualphan Lamsam who said that relying on “one horse” by the government was a bad decision.

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/28599/four-decisions-thailand-got-wrong-in-its-covid-19-fight-so-far/

[tingtong]

We live at times where most young men can be motivated one of 3 things can be described with F words:

 

- Fame

- Fortune

- Fornication 

 

Which one she is prepared to use as her motivating the team?

 

[GroveHillWanderer]

2 hours ago, internationalism said:

apart from befriending certain royals (that includes prince harry), from which she draws her fame and influence,  she also coined with dr Anutin a grand scheme of favouring the Siam Bioscience over the other producers. Hence, the vax program is now in position it is, forced to be content with sinovac

According to the post from @jerrymahoney above, that claim is mistaken and she actually opposed relying on Siam Bioscience alone.

Edited August 24, 2021 by GroveHillWanderer

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

She is Nualphan Lamsam who is widely known by her nickname of Madam Pang

Wonder how much a rub-down with an ice-pack after a game will cost?

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

Thailand appoints...,

so, what kind of General is she, then?

General whiplash?

[FritsSikkink]

1 hour ago, internationalism said:

yes, and her sport qualifications is being $3bln rich socialite. That's what I have tried to point in the first place.

 

wikipedia says only "She is the main benefactor of the Thai women's national football team". There is a difference being a coach and benefactor, chairwoman. 

She was the coach.

[Scrotobike]

Good to see Wednesday Adams has got a job

[metisdead]

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[rcuthbert]

Yeah, taking orders from a woman in the men's locker room is really going to boost moral. LOL!

[CrunchWrapSupreme]

20 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

You could put Klopp or Peppy in charge and they would still win nothing as they are all so 'clever'

My wife and I watch the Premier League. She can't stand even her own national team. Too much fighting and cheating, she says.

 

I tried watching a few games, they complain and make excuses about everything. Not a foul, when it clearly was. Not offsides, when it's clear as day.

 

Much like my high school students. They had no Internet for their homework, when others saw them online elsewhere. They weren't cheating, when their answers are exactly the same as others. When asked what the answers mean, they can't explain. And always, even when the evidence is right there, deny, deny, never admit fault. Heh.

[AustinRacing]

It may actually be a good thing. When they behave like teenage girls focused on their hair color, clothes, chatter perhaps she can be helpful. As for football well who cares. They’re just hopeless and they know it. I watch it sometimes for a laugh!!!