Buriram United, a club in Thai League 1 has started to strengthen its team even though the season has not yet ended.
Recently, it was confirmed that Neil Etheridge, goalkeeper of the Philippine national team from Birmingham City in the EFL Championship, will join the team in the 2024/25 season.
Etheridge, an English-Filipino goalkeeper, Started playing football for Chelsea and Fulham during their youth career before joining the senior team for Fulham and Oldham Athletic before emerging with Walsall FC and moving to Cardiff City, where he was involved in leading the team to promotion to the English Premier League in the 2018/19 season before moving to Birmingham City in 2020 until the present.
Etheridge is considered the first foreign goalkeeper in the history of Buriram United, who is expected to help lighten the burden on Siwarak Tedsungnoen, the 40-year-old goalkeeper who still maintains his position as number 1. Thunder Castle Army at this time, And there is still no sign that there will be a second goalkeeper to replace him.
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