Kiatisuk Senamuang

Football player infobox
playername = Kiatisuk Senamuang


fullname = Kiatisuk Senamuang
nickname = Zico, Ko
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1973|8|11
cityofbirth = Udon Thani
countryofbirth = Thailand
height = height|meters=1.73
youthyears =
youthclubs =
clubnumber =
position = Striker (Retired)
years = 1989-95
1995-96
1997-98
1998-1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-06
clubs = Krung Thai Bank
Raj Pracha
Royal Thai Police
Perlis
Huddersfield Town
Raj Pracha
Singapore Armed Forces
Hoang Anh Gia Lai
caps(goals) = 145 (98)
27 (18)
25 (13)
17 (13)
0 (0)
26 (18)
20 (15)
75 (59)
nationalyears = 1993-2007
nationalteam = Thailand
nationalcaps(goals) = 130 (65)
manageryears = 2008-
managerclubs = Chula-Sinthana
pcupdate =
ntupdate = 2 July, 2008

Kiatisuk "Zico" Senamuang (Thai เกียรติศักดิ์ เสนาเมือง) (born August 11, 1973) in Udon Thani and grown up in Khon Kaen) is a former football forward from Thailand. Between April 1993 and October 2007.

Originally a police officer, he quit his job to be a professional footballer. He played with Perlis FA in Malaysia before joining English team Huddersfield Town in 1999 in what some believed to be a publicity stunt by then manager Steve Bruce. After one season, in which he did not feature in the Huddersfield Town first team squad, he left English football for Rajpracha Sports Club in Thailand, later joining Singapore Armed Forces FC where he scored 15 goals in 20 games. In March 2002 he moved once again to become a star in Vietnam with Hoang Anh-Gia Lai, where he helped win the league title several times. Senamuang was in fact awarded a medal for his contributions to Vietnamese football.He returned to play for Thailand national football Team in King's Cup in which he leaded team win since 2000. He now retired and was a coach of Chula-Sinthana FC.

Kiatisuk Senamuang played 130 international matches and scored 65 goals for the national team. [ [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/senamuang-intlg.html Kiatisuk Senamuang - Century of International Appearances ] ] Both numbers are the international records. But in fact, there is confusion about the caps and goals of Kiatisuk due to some real caps and goals of him was not accepted by FIFA. Nonetheless, for the statistic of Thailand, Kiatsuk scored 85 goals for the national team.

International goals

*** Some goals was not accepted by FIFA.

External links

* [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/senamuang-intlg.html RSSSF archive of Kiatisuk Senamuang's Century of International Appearances]
* [http://www.thaifootball.com/zico/index_e.html Fan site]
* [http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/99/1203/people.html Thai star Kiatisuk is Britain's latest football import] - Asiaweek news story

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