Wattana Playnum

Wattana Playnum
Personal information
Full name	Wattana Playnum
Date of birth	19 August 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth	Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder, centre back
Team information
Current team	Uthai Thani
Number	19
Youth career
2003–2008	Khongphai Wittaya School
Senior career*
Years	Team
2009–2010	Nakhon Sawan
2011–2012	Paknampho NSRU
2013–2014	Ayutthaya
2015–2021	Muangthong United
2015	→ Pattaya United (loan)
2021–2022	Uthai Thani
2022–2023	Nongbua Pitchaya
2023–	Uthai Thani
International career‡
2017–2018	Thailand
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 April 2022; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 August 2017

Wattana Playnum (Thai: วัฒนา พลายนุ่ม; born August 19, 1989), simply known as Mike (Thai: ไมค์), is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.

Club career

Wattana Playnum played for Nakhon Sawan during 2009-10. In the next season, he was bought by Paknampho NSRU and played there during 2011-12. Subsequently, Phil Stubbins, Ayutthaya head coach at that time, brought him to join Ayutthaya in 2013. In December 2014, one of the biggest teams in Thailand, Muangthong United, which had shown an interest in his potentials, purchased him from Ayutthaya.

Throughout the 2015 season, he was loaned out to Pattaya United, implicitly an allied club to Muangthong United. He helped Pattaya United finish second in 2015 Thai Division 1 League, awarded promotion to 2016 Thai League T1. Since 2016, he was back to and has been playing for Muangthong United.

International career

In March 2017, Wattana made his senior international debut appearing in the starting lineup in the 2018 world cup qualification match against Japan at Saitama Stadium.