Announcement ceremony of U23 Vietnam’s head coach to attend the 2023 AFF U23 Championship
This afternoon (August 8), at the headquarters of the VFF, a ceremony to announce the head coach of U23 Vietnam to attend the 2023 AFF U23 Championship took place.
09/08/2023 10:30:03
Attending, on behalf of the leaders of the Vietnam Sports Adminstration, there were Mr. Nguyen Hong Minh – Deputy Director; On behalf of the leaders of the VFF, there were Mr. Tran Anh Tu – Vice President, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Vu – Vice President, Mr. Duong Nghiep Khoi – General Secretary, Mr. Nguyen Sy Hien – Chairman of the National Coach Council; the members of the VFF Executive Committee, the heads of the functional committees of the VFF; representatives of leaders of units under VFF, General Secretariat, leaders of functional departments of VFF; Representatives of the Sponsors, together with a large number of representatives of the media agencies. On the side of the U23 Vietnam, with the participation of head coach Hoang Anh Tuan and coaching staff, the players of the U23 Vietnam are focusing and practicing to prepare for the 2023 AFF U23 Championship.
Speaking at the ceremony, General Secretary of the Vietnam Football Federation Duong Nghiep Khoi said that it is part of the strategy to train and develop a young player force, thereby creating a richer source of access for the national team to aim for the following goals. With a big goal in the future, VFF has actively developed action plans for young teams in order to effectively carry out key tasks in the coming and subsequent periods.
With the above orientation, and based on the schedule of international tournaments in 2023, the Vietnam Football Federation has decided to establish two U23 Vietnam teams for the tasks in the 2024 Asian U23 Qualifiers and the AFF U23 Championship and ASIAD 19.
The overall and synchronous development plans to improve the quality of the activities of the national teams, especially the youth teams, have been actively implemented by the VFF. For the 2023 AFF U23 Championship taking place in Thailand in August, the Vietnam Football Federation has received a consensus from coach Philippe Troussier to empower Mr. Hoang Anh Tuan to assume the position of head coach participated in this tournament.
Mr. Duong Nghiep Khoi also shared that it is very appropriate to empower Mr. Hoang Anh Tuan to assume the position of head coach of the U23 Vietnam to attend the 2023 AFF U23 Championship, because the team’s core force are players with the age group U18-U20, most of which are students of coach Hoang Anh Tuan who have just attended Asian youth tournaments such as the U17 Asian Cup, the 2023 U20 Asian Cup. Contribute to the training and development of the next generation of players for the national team. Many players under coach Hoang Anh Tuan have been trained and matured through major tournaments for youth football of the region, continent and the world, the culmination of which is the FIFA U20 World Cup 2017 for the first time in history. Most of them have so far confirmed their positions in the U23 team and the national team. That is also the reason why VFF continues to trust and assign tasks to coach Hoang Anh Tuan to coach and lead a generation of potential young Vietnamese football players to attend the 2023 AFF U23 Championship, towards a long-term goal on building the force for the national team through the continuous accumulation of expertise, experience and the bravery of international competition for young players”, emphasized Mr. Duong Nghiep Khoi.
Coach Hoang Anh Tuan thanked the leaders of the Vietnam Football Federation for trusting him to lead the U23 Vietnam to participate in the 2023 AFF U23 Championship. “This is an honor but also a great responsibility for me personally. I have spent more than 30 years in football and during the 8 years of working with the VFF, I myself have always determined that my task is to coach young players to serve the national team. With all my enthusiasm and efforts, I hope that after each tournament that we attend, including the upcoming AFF U23 Championship, the quality of young players will gradually improve and create a positive change for their next stages of development in their professional football career,” said coach Hoang Anh Tuan.
The 2023 AFF U23 Championship hosted by Thailand will take place from August 17 to August 26, 2023. According to the draw results, the U23 Vietnam is in Group C along with the U23 Philippines and U23 Laos.
To prepare for this tournament, the U23 Vietnam has focused on training at the Vietnam Youth Football Training Center from July 29 until now. As planned, the team will leave for Thailand on August 14 to train and complete the final preparation.
Notably, before officially entering the journey at the 2023 AFF U23 Championship, the team will have a friendly match with U23 Bahrain. This match will take place on August 15 in Thailand.
Head coach Hoang Anh Tuan said that the VFF does not put pressure on the team’s performance when participating in the above tournament, because the main goal is to create opportunities for competition and accumulate experience for the very young player of Vietnamese football. “Although the VFF does not place much emphasis on achievements in the next tournament, that does not mean that we allow ourselves to be arbitrarily kicked. We enter the tournament with serious preparation, with a desire to contribute and with a clear goal for each match, especially we will do our best to show the beautiful gameplay, the beautiful image of Vietnamese football in the international arena”, coach Hoang Anh Tuan affirmed.
He also shared: “For me personally, the biggest pressure is how many players will be introduced after each tournament for the national team. VFF is having a very good strategy and investment for the next generation, I also hope that we will also have an investment in the next team of coaches for the teams. I am very grateful to VFF for creating the conditions for me to choose my associates in the U23 Vietnam to participate in the 2023 AFF U23 Championship. It can be said that this is the best coaching staff I have ever had, with the support of the famous players such as Tran Minh Chien, Le Phuoc Tu, Hua Hien Vinh, Tran Duc Cuong. They are all experienced in coaching in the Second, First and V.League as well as in youth football training. I hope in the future, in addition to creating resources for successors for the teams, at the same time, it will also be the successor coaches for the national teams.”
