Laos national football team
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| Laos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | The great Rhino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Association | Lao Football Federation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Xaysana Savatdy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Laos National Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | LAO | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 190 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 134 (September 1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 190 (June 2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 198 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 South Vietnam 7 - 0 Laos .png/22px-Flag_of_Laos_(1952-1975).png){kind=small} (Rangoon, Burma; December 12, 1961) |
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| Biggest win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Laos 3 - 0 Singapore  (Bangkok, Thailand; November 14, 1970)  Laos 3 - 0 Brunei  (Bangkok, Thailand; December 8, 1995) Laos 4 - 1 Philippines  (Jakarta, Indonesia; October 10, 1997) |
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 Egypt 15 - 0 Laos (Indonesia; November 1963) |
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The Laos national football team is the national team of Laos and is controlled by the Lao Football Federation. A member of the AFC, it qualified for the second stage of Asian qualifying for the 2006 World Cup, but proceeded to lose all its games.
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[edit] World Cup record
[edit] Asian Cup record
[edit] AFC Challenge Cup record
[edit] Tiger Cup record
[edit] Current squad
(May, 2007)
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Goalkeepers: |
Sisomephone Sathongyot |
[edit] Trivia
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The 2006 Thai comedy movie Lucky Loser was originally filmed to be about a soccer team from Laos, but was later re-edited to replace Laos with a fictional country named Arvee, after complaints from Laotians, as the film mostly plays on stereotypes of Laos. The film has Arvee reaching the second stage of World Cup as a lucky loser, just as Laos had really done during 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification.
[edit] References
- ^ Record number of 204 teams enter preliminary competition (English). FIFA Media Department. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
- ^ Laos withdraws from Challenge Cup.
