Some players were absent from the first gathering of the Vietnamese volleyball team

A few days after the 2023 Hung Vuong Cup ended, the two Vietnamese men's and women's volleyball teams officially joined forces on April 1 in Ninh Binh. However, in the first training session, some athletes were not present due to personal reasons, they asked the coaching board for permission and it was approved.

It is expected that on Monday, April 3, 36 athletes from both male and female teams will be fully present and practice continuously to prepare for the 32nd SEA Games. Previously, from April 25 to May 2, the team The women's team will move to Vinh Phuc to attend the 2023 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship.

Thus, the two volleyball teams have 1 month to prepare for the tournament in Cambodia, the training period in Ninh Binh is not only for the coach to match the squad but also to select the athletes who best match the criteria. mine.

For each men's/women's team, coaches Tran Dinh Tien and Nguyen Tuan Kiet were forced to eliminate 4 out of 18 names, thereby closing the list of 14 athletes officially attending the 32nd SEA Games.

The goal of the two teams at this Southeast Asian Games is to successfully defend the Silver medal, which Vietnam volleyball has done at the tournament in May last year at Quang Nam's home field. Ning.

In Southeast Asia, countries have also soon gathered and actively prepared for the 32nd SEA Games, in which the Philippines, Thailand or the host Cambodia are all preparing extremely carefully.

If in the women's content, winning silver is within reach, in the men's content, coach Tran Dinh Tien and his students promise to face many challenges when defending champions Indonesia, Thailand or Cambodia are all nasty opponents. .