Asiad 19 will take place from September 23 to October 8 in Hangzhou (China). However, football at the Asian Games will start from September 19 when Olympic Vietnam faces Mongolia in Group B at 3:00 p.m.
This year’s Asian Games will organize 40 sports divided into 61 disciplines with a total of 483 competition events/medal sets. The Vietnamese sports team will participate in 31 sports. sports with 202 competitions.
337 Vietnamese athletes will participate in 31 sports including Karate Sepak Takraw Boxing Shooting Chess Rowing Wushu Kurash Athletics Archery Canoeing Swimming Taekwondo Chess King Bicycle Gymnastics Weightlifting Table Tennis Roller Wrestling Judo Jujitsu Fencing Volleyball Badminton Golf Soccer Tennis Soft Tennis Sports Electronic Dance Sport Breaking.
At Asiad 18 in Indonesia in 2018, the Vietnamese team won 5 gold medals including 3 gold medals in Olympic sports: Rowing (4-person boat team including Luong Thi Thao Ho Thi Ly Pham Thi Thao and Ta Thanh Huyen) and Athletics (Bui Thi Thu Thao in the women’s long jump event). and Quach Thi Lan in the women’s 400m hurdles race). Pencak Silat team won 2 gold medals from Nguyen Van Tri and Tran Dinh Nam.
Even if not expected to win a medal, but soccer still receives great attention from fans. Coach Hoang Anh Tuan’s Vietnam Olympic team will face rivals Mongolia Iran Saudi Arabia in Group B and is expected to repeat the achievement of reaching the semi-finals of the Asian Games of Coach Park Hang Seo and his team in 2018.
Coach Mai Duc Chung’s women’s soccer team is in Group D with Japan Nepal Bangladesh. At Asiad 18 in 2018 in Indonesia, the Vietnamese women’s team reached the quarterfinals and lost to Taiwan (China) on penalties.
Goals of the Vietnamese Sports Delegation in three groups of sports
Group 1 (5 subjects): The group of subjects capable of winning gold medals at Asiad 19 includes Sepak Takraw Karate Shooting Boxing Chess.
Group 2 (18 subjects): The group of subjects capable of winning silver and bronze at Asiad 19 includes Rowing Wushu Kurash Athletics Archery Canoeing Swimming Taekwondo Chess Bicycle Gymnastics Weightlifting Table Tennis Roller Wrestling Judo Jujitsu Fencing.
Group 3 (8 subjects): Group of subjects unlikely to win medals at Asiad 19 includes Football Women’s Volleyball Badminton Tennis Golf Dance-Sport Breaking Esports Soft tennis.
