Nong Chok National Football Center Nong Chok National Football Center Nong Chok National Football Center () is the Football Association of Thailand national football centre on a site at Nong Chok, Bangkok. The center was officially opened by Sepp Blatter, former president of FIFA on 16 September 2009. Nong Chok National Football Center founded on the policy of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to give the 11 countries in Southeast Asia have a national football training center. Worawi Makudi, the association's secretary at the time, offered to donate of land along the Mitrmitree Rd. nongchok to Vijit Ketkaew The President of the association,
51st FIFA Congress 51st FIFA Congress The 51st FIFA Congress was held between 6 and 8 June 1998, at the Equinox congress hall in Paris, France, just before the start of the 1998 FIFA World Cup. It was the last biannual meeting of the international governing body of association football FIFA, since 1998 the congress has been held on an annual basis. The congress saw the election of Joseph "Sepp" Blatter as the 8th President of FIFA who succeeded João Havelange. Havelange had held the presidency since 1974. Voting for the presidential election took more than three hours, with the Swedish football administrator