Constant political instability causes football Syria was affected a lot. Syria was the first Asian team to pass won the group stage of the 1950, 1962 and 1966 World Cups, but they withdrew from participating in the finals because of domestic instability. At the 1978 World Cup, Syria once again withdrew from the finals in Argentina also because of instability.</ p>
At the Asian Football Championship in the first four tournaments from 1956 – 1968, Syria did not send a team to participate before they withdrew from the 1976 tournament. held in Iran.
On the continental stage, the Syrian football team has never passed the first round, meaning its performance is worse than the Vietnamese team. Nam once reached the quarterfinals of the 2007 tournament.
The Syrian team once reached the play-off match to compete for tickets to the 2018 World Cup finals – Asia with Australia
Syrian football once participated in the Olympics in 1980 in the Soviet Union but did not make any noise. significantly because they were eliminated in the group stage.
The achievements that the Syrian football community has mainly come from small tournaments or conferences. regional count as 1-time conference football champion sports Arab bloc in 1957 won the Mediterranean Games once in 1987.
Only at the Games Asian Games (Asiad) in the 18 times the Asian Games were held, Syrian football did not participate 12 times, all 12 of which took place in the first 13 congresses from 1951 to 1998.
< p style=”text-align:justify”>In general, the instability in the country causes Syrian football to be seriously affected, they often have to interrupt their international activities, and gathering the team is always difficult. than other football backgrounds.
Not much experience in international competition, gathering the team is difficult because of domestic instability, but Syrian players have very good qualities
Yet in such a context the Syrian team suddenly entered until the final play-off match to compete for tickets to the finals World Cup 2018 – Asia only lost to Australia at the last minute.
Good qualities help Syrian football players still have certain advantages even though they have limited experience in international competition as well as in terms of compensation.
In any situation, Syrian players are still players with physical and technical advantages compared to Southeast Asian teams.
Vietnamese players can be better than Syrian players in terms of fluency thanks to playing against each other regularly in international tournaments thanks to the domestic tournament system of Vietnamese football being more stable than Syrian football but We can still be inferior to them in terms of quality.
That forces the Vietnamese Olympic team to be cautious in the match with Syria in the quarterfinals of the football event. South Asiad 2018. If we want to defeat the representative of West Asian football, we must use flexibility in tactics and wisdom in play, but we are not better than them in terms of strength.
Thien Nhan
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