Teerathep Winothai (Thai ธีรเทพ วิโนทัย) (born February 16, 1985, in Bangkok), nicknamed "Leesaw" (ลีซอ) is a Thai football player.
He is a midfielder/striker and currently plays for the 2003 AFC Champions League runners-up BEC Tero Sasana. Previously, he spent time in the youth teams of Crystal Palace F.C. and Everton F.C. in England. He represented Thailand in the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship in New Zealand. In the final of the 2005 SEA Games match against Vietnam, he scored a hat-trick, and helped Thailand claim the gold medal for the 7th consecutive time.
He has now an agreement with Belgian's second division K. Lierse S.K.. He will be playing for them starting from October 2008 after the finish of the Thai football season.
Teeratep has good ball control honed during his time playing for youth teams in some of England's best football academies, and these can be shown on display when he bagged a brace against China in an international friendly earlier in 2008. His transfer to his new club in Belgium has shown Thailand's increasing capability to match the big ones, and Teeratep may just be the forerunner.
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