Road to the VFF Annual Congress: VFF’s reputation is enhanced in the region and Asia
General Secretary Duong Nghiep Khoi of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) affirmed that the Federation’s reputation is increasingly enhanced in regional and continental football organizations.
12/10/2023 17:55:35
Dear Secretary General Duong Nghiep Khoi, how do you evaluate the achievements of Vietnamese football in the past year? Besides, what are the focus that we need to improve in 2024?
2023 continues to be a busy year for Vietnamese football. The national teams are busy with international tournaments, with the focus being the first journey of the national women’s team at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Next is SEA Games 32, the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, Futsal Asian Cup qualifiers, Asian youth qualifiers such as U17, U20 men and women…
The Vietnam Football Federation has implemented an effective investment plan for the activities of all national teams, which prioritizes resources for teams participating in major football events, with a wide influence on the development of football teams. Vietnamese football development: U23 team and national women’s team participate in SEA Games 32; The national women’s team participated in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup for the first time in history; The national men’s team focuses on training and friendly matches on FIFA days to prepare for the second qualifying round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
However, this is also the year of transferring forces and preparing for future goals. For example, Vietnamese women’s football is starting to have a strong transition when some leave the team, some injuries still need time to recover, and young players are gathering but need time to mature.
Implementing the strategy of building a successor force for men’s national teams, the Vietnam Football Federation has decided to send U23 Vietnam with a core of U20 players to attend the 2023 Southeast Asian U23 Championship, ASIAD 2023. He entrusted Mr. Hoang Anh Tuan as head coach.
At the AFF U23 Championship, although inferior to other teams in terms of age, the U23 Vietnam team played very hard to win the Championship. This Gold Medal is a great achievement for Vietnamese football, especially for young players. At Asiad 2023, the U23 Vietnam team stopped at the group stage but has accumulated many valuable lessons for their future journey.
The process of implementing difficult tasks is inevitably incomplete, but it is a valuable lesson from which to do better, all for the goal of developing Vietnamese football to new level.
On the international level, Vietnamese football continues to have cooperation with developed football federations. How will this unlock specific values in 2024, sir?
Inheriting the achieved results, the Standing Committee of the Vietnam Football Federation, term IX, continues to focus on expanding foreign relations and promoting its role in international football organizations. On that basis, VFF’s reputation in regional and continental football organizations is increasingly enhanced. In particular, President of Vietnam Football Federation Tran Quoc Tuan is very prestigious with international football organizations FIFA, AFC, AFF.
In fact, VFF continues to promote integration and increase exchanges and cooperation with organizations and international football federations to take advantage of the support and support for national teams to exchange, learn and practice. accumulate experience; Enlist the support of FIFA and AFC for women’s and youth football training based on targeted programs.
This will open up many opportunities for teams from the youth level to the national team level to train and play friendly matches abroad with quality opponents, preparing not only for tournaments. official competition but also creates a foundation for long-term goals.
The clearest proof is the case of the women’s football team. The matches in training trips to Japan and Europe are all very high quality, bringing useful international experience, helping players learn many lessons in the process of adapting to the high intensity of playing football in these countries. Big football in Europe and the world.
In addition, this cooperation also creates favorable conditions for proactively training coaching resources for localities and clubs.
It can be said that strengthening cooperation with developed football countries, including European football federations, is and will open up new directions for international cooperation in Vietnamese football. This is a positive step for the development of Vietnamese football in the future.
How will the investment policy for youth football continue to be emphasized in the coming time, sir?
To have resources to supplement the women’s teams, VFF continues to invest in young women’s teams, ages 13 to 17. The teams continue to be invested in long-term training at the Training Center. Vietnamese youth football. Thanks to this investment, youth teams such as U17 and U20 men, and U20 women all completed the target of winning the right to attend the finals of Asian youth tournaments.
Plan to communicate, call for sponsorship for national youth tournaments, invest and upgrade the quality of women’s soccer tournaments?
With the milestone of the Vietnamese women’s team participating in the 2023 World Women’s Football Finals for the first time, women’s football has received more attention from the public, businesses and partners. Investing in developing the system of national women’s and youth football tournaments is always a key concern of VFF.
The number of teams participating in tournaments is also gradually increasing. VFF coordinates with host localities to always make efforts so that tournaments take place with facilities and professional quality that meet international standards.
Tournaments invest more in communication work, broadcasting live on television platforms and social networks to meet the viewing needs of fans as well as increase attraction to the audience.
VFF believes that with the increasing interest and support of the fan, women’s and youth tournaments will receive more companionship from businesses and partners, enhancing tournament quality and creating favorable conditions for women’s tournaments. Favorable playing conditions for the players.
Thank you for the discussion!
