It was received positively as he had led the under-20 team to the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup for the first time in Myanmar's football history. The following year, he was manager during the 2016 AFF Championship which Myanmar co-hosted. After 12 years of non-participation, Zeise reached the semi-finals with the national team, where they were beaten by their fellow co-hosts, Thailand. Zeise left by mutual consent in March 2018, after the team was beaten by Kyrgyzstan, and failed to qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.