Chelsea players score on night out in Bangkok
Chelsea players including the London club's player of the year Eden Hazard could be facing the ire of manager Jose Mourinho, after photos of them enjoying a night out in Bangkok spread like wildfire across the social media.
The English Premier League champions arrived in the capital on Thursday, their second visit to the country in three years, ahead of their Chelsea FC Celebration Match at Rajamangala National Stadium today.
After stepping off their longhaul flight on Thursday morning, Blues players headed out for a night on the town and showed no signs of jetlag or fatigue in photos that captured them enjoying Bangkok’s nightlife.
Belgium international Hazard, who featured in every league match in the club’s latest Premier Leaguewinning campaign, was pictured posing with Thai TV star Aimee Morakot in a photo posted on her Instagram page with a caption that read “Nice meeting last night”.
Meanwhile Hazard’s Spanish clubmate Diego Costa was pictured sticking his head out of a taxi window to pose with a traffic policeman, while Czech international keeper Petr Cech opted to test his drumming technique at a local music practice room.
Chelsea coach Mourinho, in his second spell in charge of the west London club, caused a buzz of his own on Thursday when the 52-year-old went shopping at MBK shopping mall after attending the press conference for the game against a Singha All Stars team.
Other Chelsea squad members stuck to the schedule yesterday when the coaching staff held a soccer skills clinic for 50 local youngsters at the Singha Football Park in Muang Thong Thani.
“Singha have been the global partners of Chelsea Football Club over the past five years and we’ve regularly engaged in activities with them,” said Kittisak Chaimongkoltrakul, Singha’s director of customer relations.
“The Singha Chelsea FC Football Clinic will give our kids exposure to worldclass coaching from the trainers of the EPL champions. It should be very beneficial to Thai football.”
