Teerasil double trouble for Cambodia as Thailand ease into semi-finals
TUESDAY, JANUARY 03, 2023
Defending champions Thailand cruised into the semi-finals of the 2022 Asean Football Federation (AFF) Championship on Monday with a 3-1 defeat of Cambodia that saw them top Group A.
Teerasil Dangda scored the first goal for the War Elephants at Thammasat University Rangsit Campus in Bangkok, slotting home a penalty at the end of the first half.
Sumanya Purisai bagged the second goal for the hosts five minutes into the second half, before Chanthea Sieng grabbed a goal back for Cambodia in the 68th minute.
Teerasil secured victory for Thailand with his second goal in the last minute of the game.
Thailand finished top of the group on goal difference from Indonesia, both teams on 10 points. Cambodia were third on six points, followed by the Philippines (three) and Brunei (no points).
Photographer : Wanchai Kraisornkhajit
Thailand will face the Group B runners-up in the two-leg semi-final, in a repeat of last year’s final. The away leg is on January 7 while the home leg in Bangkok is on January 10. All Thailand matches are broadcast live on MCOT HD30 and T-Sport 7 channels.
Brazil bids farewell to ‘king of soccer’ Pele with 24-hour wake
TUESDAY, JANUARY 03, 2023
The Brazilian coastal city of Santos, which sporting giant Pele turned into a byword for soccer brilliance during a glittering club career, started bidding goodbye to its hero on Monday with a 24-hour wake.
Mourners lined up to see Pele’s body in an open casket in the centre of the field at the Vila Belmiro stadium, home of the Santos Football Club. Pele died on Thursday at 82 after battling colon cancer.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino was among the first to arrive for the service and said he would ask every country to name a stadium after Pele, the only man to win the World Cup three times as a player.
Infantino told reporters. “FIFA will certainly honour the ‘king’ as he deserves. Additionally he had asked all football associations in the world to pay a minute of silence at every match worldwide.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento – Pele’s given name – was born in 1940 in the small country town of Tres Coracoes, but moved to Santos in 1956 and lived there for most of his life.
In the early hours of Monday, his body arrived under fireworks in the city of about 430,000 people from Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein Hospital.
Former Brazil midfielder Ze Roberto and Pele’s son Edinho helped placing his coffin in the field, TV footage showed. Floral wreaths were sent by the likes of Neymar, Vinicius Junior and Real Madrid.
On Tuesday, a procession carrying Pele’s coffin will pass through the streets of Santos, ending at the Ecumenical Memorial Necropolis cemetery, where he will be buried in a private ceremony.
Santos’ press office said some 5,000 journalists from all over the world had been accredited to cover the wake of Pele, who scored more than 1,000 goals for Santos.
Several government officials are expected to attend the memorial, including newly sworn-in Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, a longtime Santos supporter.
Sao Paulo state military police said in a statement they had prepared a special operation called the “King Pele Operation” to ensure public order.
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