After reaching an agreement to terminate the contract with coach Troussier, the Federation football Vietnam (VFF) has temporarily appointed coach Hoang Anh Tuan to lead the U23 Vietnam team to participate in the tournament. attending the 2024 Asian U23 Championship in April.
It is worth mentioning at this point that AFC has finalized the list of 50 U23 Vietnamese players preliminarily registered to participate in the tournament U23 Asia on March 15. This list was previously registered by coach Troussier. Therefore, coach Hoang Anh Tuan cannot change.
According to regulations, coach Hoang Anh Tuan cannot add any players outside the preliminary list. He can only change 5 players for any reason as long as they do not exceed the allowed number of people in case U23 Vietnam wins tickets to attend the 2024 Olympics.
It means that the U23 Vietnam team must be in the list of three leading teams in the U23 Asian tournament. If we rank 4th (enter the semi-finals), we will play a play-off with the African representative to compete for tickets to Paris.
The new coach of Vietnam’s U23 team admitted that he could not bring in some names. Like Vo Nguyen Hoang (Thanh Hoa Club), Nguyen Manh Hung (Viettel Sports Club) and Nguyen Duc Viet (Hoang Anh Gia Lai) on this list.
Anyway, among the 50 players posted Preliminary signing of many people who have worked with coach Hoang Anh Tuan at the youth level. He once led the U20 Vietnam team to participate in the U20 Asia tournament and U23 Vietnam to participate in the U23 Southeast Asia tournament in 2023.
Coach Hoang Anh Tuan is famous for being “cool” with the players. young. In the past, he led the U20 Vietnam team to attend the U20 World Cup in 2017. Many members of that generation became the pillars of Vietnam team later like Quang Hai Tien Linh Van Hau Tan Tai…
In addition, other players of the Vietnamese team such as Khuat Van Khang Phan Tuan Tai… is also a student of coach Hoang Anh Tuan at the youth level.
In the 2024 Asian U23 tournament, U23 Vietnam will be in the same group with U23 Kuwait, U23 Malaysia and U23 Uzbekistan. We will play in the match against U23 Kuwait on April 17.
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