{"id":11351,"date":"2026-04-07T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=11351"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:43:00","slug":"champions-indonesia-off-to-a-winning-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/champions-indonesia-off-to-a-winning-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Indonesia off to a winning start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defending champions Indonesia made it a romping start with a 7-0 demolition of Brunei Darussalam at the ASEAN Futsal Championship at the Central Stadium in Nonthaburi, Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muhammad Sanjaya scored a hat-trick to pave the way of the demolition for Indonesia to set the pace in Group B. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanjaya scored in the 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 5<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> minutes. Andarias Kareth slammed in a double in the 10th and 24th minutes. Indonesia&#8217;s other goals came from Imam Anshori (12<sup>th<\/sup>) and Dewa Rizki (16<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another Group B match, Australia fought back to beat Malaysia 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Rayyan Nor Hisam had given Malaysia the lead after seven minutes before Australia replied through Tyler Garner in the 27<sup>th<\/sup> minute and Ethan De Melo in the 35<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Group A, host Thailand started their campaign romping past Timor-Leste 4-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe got the three points, but we need to be better. We made a lot of mistakes in the second half, and we need to rectify that,\u201d said Thai coach Rakphol Sainetngam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muhammad Osamanmusa grabbed the sixth-minute opener, to be followed by goals from Panas Kittipanuwong (12<sup>th<\/sup> minute), Jaroondej Muentieng (17<sup>th<\/sup>), and Narongsak Wingwon (36<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bendito Ramos scored the only goal for Timor-Leste in the 33<sup>rd<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam take the lead in Group A on goal difference after blasting four goals past Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam\u2019s scored through Nhan Gia Hung in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> minute as Nguyen Da Hai fired in a brace (21<sup>st<\/sup> and 22<sup>nd<\/sup> minute) and Nguyen Thac Hieu (29<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions Indonesia made it a romping start with a 7-0 demolition of Brunei Darussalam at the ASEAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-11351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-futsal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei.jpg",882,510,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei-300x173.jpg",300,173,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei-768x444.jpg",640,370,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei.jpg",640,370,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei.jpg",882,510,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei.jpg",882,510,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei-825x510.jpg",825,510,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/newsbeat\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Futsal-Indonesia-vs-Brunei.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11353,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions\/11353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}