The Thai Football Association has announced that Akira Nishino, the former coach of the Japanese national football team and head of the Thai national team, has canceled the contract following the defeat of the second Asian qualifying round of the World Cup next year.
After leading the Japanese national team to the top 16 at the 2018 Soccer World Cup Russia tournament, Nishino was appointed as the coach of the Thai national team in July at the request of the Football Association of Thailand, and extended the contract for two years in January last year. was doing.
However, in the second Asian qualifying for the World Cup Qatar tournament to be held next year, Thailand remained in 4th place out of 5 teams in the group and could not advance to the final qualifying.
Under these circumstances, the Football Association of Thailand announced on the night of the 29th that it had canceled the contract with Director Nishino, saying that he could not achieve the goal set by the association.
The Football Association will soon decide on a replacement manager.