Indonesia coach: 'Vietnam U22 is weaker without Mr. Park'

Coach Park Hang-seo is the hero who helps Vietnam solve the "thirst" for the SEA Games gold medal. In the Philippines in 2019, he and the team won 2-1 and 3-0 against Indonesia led by coach Indra Sjafri in both the group stage and the final to step up to the top position. At the 2021 SEA Games at home, Coach Park helped Vietnam successfully defend the gold medal when defeating Thailand in the final at My Dinh Stadium thanks to a header from Nham Manh Dung.

"Coach Park Hang-seo is our real opponent. I have faced him a few times. But now he has decided not to lead Vietnam anymore," Mr. Indra Sjafri said in Bola this morning 4/4. .

Coach Park expired his contract with Vietnamese football on January 31 and did not renew it. The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) then appointed Philippe Troussier to replace him. The French coach will lead Vietnam U22 to compete at the 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia.

Mr. Sjafri therefore believes that U22 Vietnam will "weak during the transition period between the two leaders. "Hopefully this is when their U22 team does not get good results, and we will have more opportunities in SEA. Games", coach U22 Indonesia emphasized.

In the first training session with coach Troussier, U22 Vietnam achieved bad results. The team lost all three matches against Iraq, UAE and Kyrgyrztan, finishing last out of 10 teams participating in the Dubai Cup friendly tournament. Coach Troussier is expected to return with the team from April 17 to prepare for the 32nd SEA Games.

Indonesia won the SEA Games gold medal in 1987 and 1991, when teams used the national team to compete. But since the rule was changed, using the youth teams U23 or U22 in 2001, Indonesia three times entered the final but lost, in 2011, 2013 and 2019. To end the "thirst" for the gold medal, Indonesia soon summoned 36 players, gathered troops from April 1 to train and prepare for the 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia from April 29 to May 17.

Mr. Indra Sjafri is the head coach of Indonesia U22. However, the media from the land of thousands of islands said that maybe coach Shin Tae-yong will take this team to compete at the 32nd SEA Games. Mr. Shin was previously assigned as the head coach to lead Indonesia to compete at the U20 FIFA World Cup 2023. But. FIFA recently canceled the host status of Indonesia, so the team can no longer participate.