Pema Dorji (

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: དྲུང་འཚོ་པདྨ་རྡོ་རྗེ; 5 July 1985) is the

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ese football manager. A former international player, he made his first appearance for the

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in 2005. Pema served as assistant coach to Japanese coach

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during the first games of the Second Round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup until Tsukitate tenure ended following a dispute with the team manager during the Bhutan-Maldives World Cup qualifiers match on October 8, 2015. Pema guided the team as interim coach in Bhutan's next match against

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on October 13, 2015.

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