Kawin Thamsatchanan ( th, กวินทร์ ธรรมสัจจานันท์, ; born 26 January 1990) is a Thai professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

Muangthong United Muangthong United Football Club ( th, สโมสรฟุตบอลเมืองทอง ยูไนเต็ด) is a Thai professional football club based in Muang Thong Thani, Nonthaburi province. The club plays in the Thai League ...

and the Thailand national team. Kawin known to be one of the best goalkeeper in the

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region in history and Thailand.

Club career

Rajpracha

Kawin Thamsatchanan was born on 26 January 1990 in

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. He began his youth career in 2006 with Raj Pracha, making his senior debut with the team in 2007.

Muangthong United

In 2008, defending Thai division 2 champions

signed Kawin at the age of 18. In his first season with

, he secured his first-team status and helped the club win the division 1 title that season. After Muangthong's promotion to the

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for the 2009–2010 season, Kawin led the team to win the top division title two years in a row, 2009 and 2010. In October 2010,

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, a

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legend and Thailand's national team head coach at the time, spoke to United's goalkeeping coach,

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, suggesting he take a look at Kawin. However, Kawin broke his wrist, causing him to be out of action for months, ending his hopes of going on trial at

. At the start of the 2013 season, while competing in the 2013 Lunar New Year Cup, Kawin collided against Chris Dickson. He suffered a broken shin, which kept him out for 7 months. After returning to the pitch in the second leg of the Thai Premier League, he dislocated his shoulder and tore ligaments in a match against

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, ending his season. Kawin was named man-of-the-match against

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in the 2016 AFC Champions League knock-out stage semifinal round. He saved all three of Johor's spot kicks in the penalty shootout.

OH Leuven

In 2018, Kawin completed his move to Europe by joining OH Leuven in the

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on a five-year contract. The deal was formally announced on January 10, 2018. Kawin, who wore the number 16 jersey, quickly became Leuven's first-choice goalkeeper, a position previously held by Nick Gillekens. After an outstanding performance in a 1-1 draw against Beerschot Wilrijk, Kawin was named in the Proximus League's Matchday 27 team of the week along with teammate

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. In October 2018, Kawin suffered a foot injury which has kept him on the sidelines for months, allowing

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to take up the position as first-choice goalkeeper. While Gillekens' contract was not prolonged after the 2018-19 season, OH Leuven signed international goalkeeper

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, who has since become the second choice goalkeeper behind Henkinet, bumping Thamsatchanan into third.

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo

On 4 February 2020, it was announced that Kawin had joined club

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on a season-long loan deal. He would eventually not play a single match for the team and returned to OH Leuven at the end of 2021.

Return to OH Leuven

Meanwhile at OH Leuven, the goalkeeper situation had changed completely: both Laurent Henkinet and Darren Keet had left the club and two new goalkeepers had been signed mid-2020:

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and Daniel Iversen. With Iversen returning to Leicester City due to lack of playing time, only Romo and youngster Oregan Ravet remained and Thamsatchanan was soon promoted back to second goalkeeper behind Romo. On 11 April 2021 in the penultimate game of the season, after

got injured during the game against

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, Thamsatchanan was brought on as a replacement at half-time, making him the first Thai football player to play in the Belgian highest division. It would prove to be his only match that season, as Romo returned to play the final match of the season. During the 2021 summer transfer window, OH Leuven loaned

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, demoting Thamsatchanan back to third goalkeeper (together with Ravet). Thamsatchanan did not appear on the match sheet in any match during the first half of the 2021–22 season and being deemed surplus, he was first allowed to join the

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to compete the

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towards the end of 2021, a tournament which was won and in which he played (part of) the first leg of the final. Subsequently, he was loaned out on 4 January 2022, when it was announced that Kawin had joined club

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on a loan deal.

Return Thai league with Port

Upon joining

, Kawin was given the shirt number 1. In the

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, he played 7 appearances for the club.

Back to Muangthong United

On 9 August 2022, it was announced that Kawin has back joined club Muangthong United, along with wearing shirt number 26.

International career

Kawin had debut his first senior caps in

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against

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at Nakhon Ratchasima province. Recently, under the management of Winfried Schafer, Kawin has been dropped to a substitution of Sintaweechai Hathairattanakool. He was the starting goalkeeper of the tournament in the

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. He represented Thailand U23 in the

2013 Southeast Asian Games The 2013 Southeast Asian Games ( my, ၂၀၁၃ ခုနှစ် အရှေ့တောင် အာရှ အားကစား ပြိုင်ပွဲ), officially known as the 27th Southeast Asian Games, or the 27th SEA Games, and comm ...

. Kawin was the flag bearer for

in the

2014 Asian Games The 2014 Asian Games ( ko, 2014년 아시아 경기대회/2014년 아시안 게임, Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 17th Asian Games ( ko, 제17회 아시아 경기대회/제17회 ...

, and was the captain of Thailand U23 in the tournament. Kawin was one of the overaged players playing in the

. Kawin was part of

's squad that won the

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. In December 2018, it was announced that Kawin would be part of the

that would compete in the

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. However, due to an injury, he sustained in October while playing for OH Leuven, Kawin was forced to withdraw just 2 weeks prior to the tournament. He came back in the drawn match against Vietnam.

Personal life

He attended

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for high school and graduated from Assumption University with a bachelor in Business Administration. In September 2013, V. Vachiramethi, a famous Thai monk, advised him to add two

Thai alphabet The Thai script ( th, อักษรไทย, ) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand. The Thai alphabet itself (as used to write Thai) has 44 consonant symbols ( th, พยัญชน� ...

s to his name, therefore Kawin decided to change his name from กวิน to กวินทร์. His new name means a great and powerful man. Despite the change of his name, the pronunciation of the word remains unchanged. Kawin is good friends with

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and his idols are

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and former Thailand goalkeeper Sinthaweechai Hathairattanakool. Kawin is a

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Career statistics

Honours

Club

Rajpracha *

Khǒr Royal Cup Khǒr Royal Cup ( th, ถ้วยพระราชทานประเภท ข. ; ถ้วย ข.), known as the Noi Cup () before a 1963 name change, was a part of the Thai football league system, founded by the Football Association of T ...

: 2007 Muangthong United *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

Thai League 2 Thai League 2 ( th, ไทยลีก 2), commonly known as the T2, formally called Thai Division 1 League, is the second-tier professional league in the Thai football league system. The top 3 are promoted to Thai League 1 at the end of the s ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

Kor Royal Cup Kor Royal Cup ( th, ถ้วยพระราชทาน ก. ; ถ้วย ก.), known as the Yai Cup ( th, ถ้วยใหญ่) until 1963, was the highest level of club football competition which competed in the tournament in Thailand ...

Thai League Cup The League Cup ( th, ไทยลีกคัพ) is a football cup competition in Thailand. It is also known as Toyota League Cup for sponsorship reasons. It was re-formed during the 2010 domestic football league season in Thailand and runs alon ...

International

Thailand *

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2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

King's Cup __NOTOC__ King's Cup (incl. translations), may refer to: Sports Football * Copa del Rey, Spanish for "King's Cup," the main national knockout tournament in men's football * King Cup (sometimes named King's Cup), Saudi Arabian men's football nati ...

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

Thailand U-23 *

Sea Games The Southeast Asian Games, also known as the SEA Games, is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with supe ...

gold medal:

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; silver medal:

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Individual

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Best XI: 2013 *

Best XI:

All-time XI

Royal decoration

* 2015 -

Order of the Direkgunabhorn (Thailand) ribbon

Silver Medalist (Seventh Class) of The Most Admirable

Order of the Direkgunabhorn __NOTOC__ The Most Admirable Order of the Direkgunabhorn ( th, เครื่องราชอิสริยาภรณ์อันเป็นที่สรรเสริญยิ่งดิเรกคุณาภรณ์; ) was establi ...

′ชนาธิป-ชัปปุยส์-กวินทร์′, ′อรอุมา-อัจฉราพร′, ′อะแมนด้า′ รับเครื่องราชอิสริยาภรณ์

References

External links

* *
Kawin Thamsatchanan profile
at Muangthong United website * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thamsatchanan, Kawin 1990 births Living people

Kawin Thamsatchanan Kawin Thamsatchanan ( th, กวินทร์ ธรรมสัจจานันท์, ; born 26 January 1990) is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Thai League 1 club Muangthong United and the Thailand national t ...

Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Men's association football goalkeepers

Oud-Heverlee Leuven players Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players

Belgian Pro League players Challenger Pro League players

J1 League players

Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games

SEA Games medalists in football

Competitors at the 2013 SEA Games

Expatriate men's footballers in Japan

Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games