by admin | Apr 24, 2014 | Editorial
Mika, you have just been appointed as the new head coach of Thai Premier League side Police United. Let us know your first feelings after signing the contract? Excellent! I feel privileged to be here right now. To take charge of one of the oldest and most known...
by admin | Feb 27, 2014 | Editorial
Last season Mika led Roi Et United to win the Thai 2nd division and the promotion play-offs. Now he is facing new challenges as he took the opportunity of joining the coaching staff of Thailand’s U16 national team. Mika’s last year technical adviser from...
by admin | Jul 17, 2012 | Editorial, Football in Thailand
TopSpot’s Mika Lönnström has spent the recent months in Roi Et province in Eastern Thailand setting up facilities and organization for full scale youth academy together with Roi Et United FC staff and management. Mika, who holds a UEFA Pro Coaching License, is...
by admin | May 30, 2012 | Editorial
Although Mika Lönnström is not the first Uefa Pro licensed coach from Finland to coach outside our nation’s borders, he is the first one to do so in Thailand. And sad to say there are not many that have gone to coach in other places either. Well, there is Martti...
by admin | May 29, 2012 | Editorial
Finding a way to Europe to play professional football is a dream that so many African boys cherish when they go to sleep every night. For some it is a dream that never comes true, but for Ndukaku Alison the way to Europe seemed to be wide open as he shined at...
by Egan | Feb 9, 2012 | Editorial
Sport and nationalism have often gone together. Clubs and sportsmen strive to be the best in their own countries, and then to take on the best from overseas, and then maybe, one day, be acknowledged as the best in the world. But what happens when that paradigm is...