+xInteresting to see players from our lower leagues get called up for other nations. Maybe sides likes Lebanon and Thailand aren’t as good as we think they are. As someone who lives in Thailand, it's probably just their national team scoping out whether it's worth a Thai league club signing him. There's a big movement within the Thai leagues at the moment to get any "half cast" players back here, because generally speaking: a lot of them tend to be bigger physically and that's an attractive thing for a "local" player to have. Whether or not they're better players is a whole other argument, and football is all about opinions, which change from club to club, etc. It's something that's happening right across South-East Asia at the moment, and probably in other areas of the world too. There are teams within the Thai League [Buriram and Bangkok United for starters] who would do exceptionally well if they were playing in the A-League, with both clubs budgets probably as big [in Burirams case - bigger] as the likes of Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory. Buriram is rumored to have spent over US$30k/month to have Chris Herd play in cup competitions only, so that their regular first-team players could have a rest. That would never happen in Australia!
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