“Madam Pang sets World Cup goal!”, sheet Siamsport emphasized, after confirming that the powerful female FAT President made a big splash by convincing player Silva Mexes, who is playing for the U.17 MU team of Thai origin, to accept returning to the country to play for the team. This country’s U.17 will participate in the 2025 Asian U.17 tournament.
Silva Mexes, 15 years old, has a Thai mother and a Welsh father. Joined the MU youth team in May 2024 from Ipswich Club. The British press evaluates that this young player has a lot of potential to become a star, wearing the number 7 shirt for the MU U.17 team and playing alongside other talented players from the team’s academy such as Kai Rooney, son of former football player Wayne Rooney.
Madam Pang recently launched a campaign to invite players of Thai origin to return to the country to play for teams, both men’s and women’s teams, with the aim of realizing their dream of attending the World Cup. In particular, with the Thai women’s team, the campaign is aimed at the 2027 Women’s Football World Cup in Brazil.
Meanwhile, with the Thai men’s team, Madam Pang starts from the country’s U.17 team, which is about to attend the Asian tournament in April 2025. With the addition of Silva Mexes, the 15-year-old player’s family initially agreed to let their son return to focus with the Thailand U.17 team in February 2025.
According to the sheet Siamsport: “Silva Mexes’ upcoming training session is also for Madam Pang to convince this player’s family once again, before completing the paperwork to officially play for the U.17 Thailand team. Further, Madam Pang also wants this player to play for the Thai team in the future.”
Besides Silva Mexes who is playing in England, another player of Thai origin is Jude Soonsup-Bell, currently 20 years old, who grew up at Chelsea Club’s training center and has played for teams from U.15 to U. 19 England are also being persuaded by Madam Pang to return to wear the “War Elephant” shirt with the goal of conquering the 2030 World Cup.
Both Silva Mexes and Jude Soonsup-Bell are players playing in the attack line, and are considered to be very quality additions to the Thai team in the near future.
At the ongoing AFF Cup 2024, coach Masatada Ishii of the Thai team also revealed: “Our use of many young players to compete in this tournament is aimed at preparing for the 2030 World Cup. We Need to prepare now, with many sources of players both domestically and from abroad. There can be no delay, because the Thai team has not been able to participate in the third qualifying round of the World Cup in the Asian region for two consecutive periods. Ah”.
The Thai team is about to play the AFF Cup 2024 semi-final second leg against the Philippines team at 8:00 p.m. on December 30 at home, after losing 1-2 in the first leg. The Thai or Philippine team in the final will meet the Vietnamese team, with the first leg of the final taking place on January 2, 2025 and the second leg on January 5, 2025.
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