Sompong Soleb (; born 30 July 1986), simply known as Pong () is a Thai retired professional

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who plays as a forward. He debuted for the senior

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in 2010. He played in the

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final and won a winner's medal after Thai Port defeated

Buriram PEA Buriram United Football Club () is a Thai professional association football, football club based in Buriram. The club has played at the top level of Thai football for the majority of their existence and competes in the Thai League 1. The club wa ...

2–1. Back in 2004, Sompong Soleb was one of three Thais selected from over 500 player to spend a year training with Everton. The selection process was part of a reality TV show funded by Everton's main sponsor Chang Beer, with Everton's youth academy director Ray Hall helping judge the competition.

Club career

His career began with third division side Satun United In 2004, he participated in a football talent show. The main prize was a nine-month stay in the youth academy of the English club Everton Together with Rattapon Piyawuttisakun and Teerathep Winothai he won this award. In April 2005, he took part in a three weeks trial at Chester City. The club was also willing to give him a contract. but it probably came from labor reasons for any contract with the club. Back in Thailand, he played until the end of 2006 for his hometown club before he moved to

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side Port Authority in 2007. He scored only four goals in 22 matches of the 2008 season and left to Chula United, for whom he has played ever since. In his first season, he scored nine goals for Chula. After missing two easy chances in the game against

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he is known by Thai fans as "Thai

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International career

He won the gold medal with Thailand at the

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. He also played in the

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. He also took part in the

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, hosted in Thailand and won bronze. In October 2011, Sompong scored in a match against

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in the

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. He also played in two AFF Cups in

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and

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International

International goals

Honours

Club

;Thai Port *

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(1):

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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(1):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

;Buriram *

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(1):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

International

;Thailand *

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(1):

;Thailand U-23 *

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Gold Medal (1);

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