Relying on Japan to help start the Koreans take to the top! Coach: 90 million people behind him! Not afraid of anything

"The national team went to Vietnam in the 2008 Asian Cup qualifying match. I went to Vietnam to see their football situation."

"Vietnam has a football base built by many countries in Hanoi. Trussie also invited over. I have found a lot of Portuguese coaches to train young players. Football is inseparable from a development law. After seeing these situations, I said a word of warning at the time. Now you You can also see, is it true?"

In fact, it is true.

For the national football and Chinese football fans, Vietnam still seems to be the little brother from the desert of Southeast Asian football. However, for the Vietnamese and Vietnamese fans, they can stand on the stage of the top twelve and force the national football team. Having to pay attention to this former "little brother" can even make the national football team feel a little bit of wanting to win and fear of losing. This has proved their progress over the past ten years.

Getting started

In the summer of 2013,Arsenal started their Asian tour.

On July 15, they arrived at the second stop of the itinerary-Vietnam. Before the warm-up match with the Vietnamese national team, the team naturally had to visit the local customs, which attracted a large number of local Arsenal fans to follow.

Among them, a fan stood out. He ran for 5 kilometers and then took a motorcycle. He followed the Arsenal bus closely, and everyone in the car really saw the madness of Southeast Asian fans. The players not only gave him the nickname "Running Man", the head coach Wenger finally decided to let him in the car.

This photo of this fan with Arteta also appeared on the homepage of the official Arsenal club website.

This is just a microcosm of the madness of Vietnamese fans, and a microcosm of the origins of Arsenal and Vietnamese football.

In 2001, the Jialai Huangying Group of Duan Yuande, the richest man in Vietnam, began to enter the football market. He first established the Jialai Huangying Club, and in 2006 began to inject funds to sponsor the creation of the former French international Jean-Marc Giew. After the JMG football school, they also brought Arsenal, the Premier League giants.

As a result, Vietnam's first regular and professional football school: Gia Lai Huang Ying-Arsenal-JMG Academy, was formally established.

has strong financial support,The Jialai Huangying-Arsenal-JMG Academy broke through the limitation that Vietnam youth training institutions could only radiate the surrounding areas. It began to recruit excellent football seedlings across the country, and then concentrated on the academy to receive formal and professional youth training. , And get the opportunity to regularly play with Arsenal and other English clubs, which makes Gia Lai Huang Ying-Arsenal-JMG Academy become a leader in Vietnamese youth training in a short period of time.

and they have become the first spark that can start a prairie fire.

In 2009, the Vietnamese business community established the Vietnam Football Talent and Development Foundation (PVF) in Ho Chi Minh City , and created the PVF football academy.

Vietnam's T&T Group also followed suit. The Hanoi T&T Football Club under its umbrella not only started to make efforts at the youth training level, but also threw the olive branch of cooperation to clubs in the Japanese J League.

For Vietnamese football, they have clearly stepped on the right time to exert their power. At that time, Barcelona proved that even though most of the players in the team are small, fast, and agile, they can not only stand on top of the world, but also play the applauded "beautiful football". In Asia, Japanese football, which is also plagued by physical confrontation shortcomings, broke into the round of 16 in the World Cup in South Africa and returned to this height after 2002.

The examples of Barcelona and Japan greatly encouraged Vietnamese people's confidence in football.

As a result, more and more youth academies have sprung up in Vietnam.

On the one hand, the Vietnam Football Association set up the U21, U19, U17, U15, U13, U11 six-level national youth championships.And began to thoroughly investigate the club’s financial situation and try to solve the problem of arrears; on the other hand, the Vietnam Professional League and the Japan Professional Football League signed a cooperation agreement and plan, from the operation of professional leagues, professional clubs and other aspects, to Japan Professional league learning.

In 2012, the Vietnam Super League was officially established.

The then-Vietnam U19 head coach Huang Yingjun said: "We are greatly influenced by Japan, especially in football."

rise

2014 , China’s 95-year-old National Youth Team gave everyone a little surprise.

This national youth team led by Wei Shihao defeated Japan 2-1 in the group stage and lost to in the quarter-finals. Qatar missed the semifinals and was only far from the gate of World Youth Championship One step short of the results, so that the national football fans vaguely see a little hope.

However, it is the Vietnamese national youth who really brings hope to the fans in this country.

In the third group match, the Vietnamese national youth team almost became a stumbling block for the Chinese national youth team. It was another pre-match situation that could qualify after a tie. Vietnam's national youth scored a goal at the beginning of the first half, keeping the score of 1-0 until the 87th minute. At the last moment, Tang Shi's goal helped the National Youth Team to get a draw and broke into the knockout round without any risk.

After that game, the coaching ability of the then coach Zheng Xiong was widely questioned.After all, the opponent was Vietnam, who should have won like melons and vegetables, but things had already begun to change at that time.

In the Asian Junior Championship two years later, the Vietnamese national team broke into the quarterfinals.

was also held in 2016 in the Asian Youth Championship. The 97-year-old national youths were all in all three games, and the Vietnamese national youth advanced to the semi-finals and set foot on the stage of the World Youth Championship for the first time.

In the 2017 World Youth Championships in Korea, the Vietnamese national youth who made their debut in the competition naturally became the point-sending boy in Group E, but they also grabbed a point on New Zealand , which made their progress. The attention of the world media.

At the 2018 U23 Asian Cup, as the dark horse of Vietnam, the Olympic team went to the end and reached the final. In the heavy snow in Changzhou, Ruan Guanghai produced by Hanoi’s T&T youth training team almost made history with and full moon scimitar. Unfortunately, they eventually lost to and Uzbekistan , but such results are enough for Vietnam. The fans are excited.

Among them, Park Hengxu's contribution is very significant.

In 2017, the Vietnam Football Association began to cooperate with the Korean Football Association.

Park Hengsu

Outstanding Vietnamese players began to land on Korea K League , and this South Korean coach also took charge of the Vietnam national team and the Vietnam Olympics in November 2017. team.

good results in the U23 Asian Cup,It was his first small test.

As the foundation of the national team's take-off, excellent players are ready. What Park Hengxu needs to do is to start with the details. After taking office, he added high-quality foods such as salmon salad and steak with higher protein content to the recipe, gradually reducing the player's intake of high-calorie foods such as traditional Vietnamese food-rice noodles and fried meat.

Although he was criticized by the fans and the media for dozing off during the game when he was coaching in the K-League , his expertise is enough for this Vietnam team that needs to get started.

assistant coach Lu Tingjun talked about the impact of Park Heng Xu on them: "Coach Park reminded us that there are 90 million Vietnamese people behind the team, so we must be more focused on training and games. Although the opponent will be more focused than us. Taller and stronger, but we are never afraid to fight them close."

In the 2019 Asian Cup, Vietnam lost 0-1 to Japan and stopped in the quarterfinals.

Japanese national team captain Asaya Yoshida was very surprised by the rapid progress of Southeast Asian football: "I think the gap in level is getting smaller and smaller. If it were seven or eight years ago, it would be easy for us to win. Much. Now, it’s very difficult to win."

In the fortieth stage, Vietnam drew Thailand twice and lost 2-3 away to UAE . In the remaining five games, they took full. With all the points, he beat Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia and broke into the top twelve.

thus,Standing in front of the Chinese team.

should not be underestimated

In September 2019, in the friendly match between the Chinese and Vietnam Olympics, Park Hengxu defeated his assisted Hiddink with a score of 2-0 in 2002.

Even so, Park Hengxu before the game is still very humble. He was frank in the press conference, how to deal with a tall opponent like a Chinese player. The problem.

In the top twelve competition two years later, he came up with some methods, but it didn't work.

faced and Saudi Arabia in the first match. The Vietnam team formed a 541 formation:

This shortens the distance between most players and compresses each other in the midfield. The method can indeed strengthen the defense to a certain extent, but it also means that they give up control of the game to their opponents.

On the stage of the top twelve, they are still a weak team, but a very distinctive team.

In the 3rd minute of the match, the Vietnam team launched an attack. The cross from the left was cleared by Saudi Arabia, and it happened to fall at the foot of Nguyen Guanghai outside the penalty area:

How many offensive threats can be created, but if the opponent makes such a defensive mistake,The Vietnam team is capable of turning it into a lead in the score. After

took the lead, Vietnam began to further recover, which also showed their judgment of their own strength, but the score of 1-0 is difficult to defend. Ruan Jinling, the single center forward standing at the forefront of the team, has no advantage in front of the Saudi defender:

cannot form a fulcrum in the frontcourt, and therefore cannot play to the capabilities of players such as Ruan Guanghai, and thus cannot attack the Saudi backcourt.

However, Ruan Jinling, who is 180cm tall, is already a rare big player in the front court in Vietnam.

In this way, Saudi Arabia can surround Vietnam and patiently look for offensive opportunities. In the second half of the game, Saudi Arabia began to attack Vietnam's weak side space through a quick transfer, so the shortcomings of Vietnamese players in the large space and in one-on-one physical confrontation began to be exposed:

Right center defender Du Weimeng first received the first yellow card in this defense because of reckless power. Then, in this defense, handball in the penalty area was given a yellow point package, and he accumulated two yellows and was sent off.

equalized the score and hit one more man. Saudi Arabia began to increase its offensive strength. In the 67th minute, Saudi Arabia sent the upload from the right. At the back point, Salem Dawasari pushed down the short Nguyen Trong Huang and reversed the score:

From leading to falling behind, Park Hengxu began to change forward and strengthened his offense. Although he obtained some positioning opportunities in the frontcourt, he also laid a hidden danger for him to defend himself.

78th minute,Saudi Arabia launched a counterattack from the left. Captain Gui Yuhai knocked down his opponent in the penalty area and once again offered a penalty:

This made him a top twelve match In the first experience, Vietnam suffered a 1-3 defeat.

In the face of Saudi players with obvious physical advantages and the same skillful skills at their feet, the Vietnam team really seemed helpless. If Nguyen Guanghai hadn't seized an opportunity, this might have turned into a complete defeat.

However, when the physical advantage was more obvious, but it was also slightly bulky Australia, the performance of the Vietnamese players began to improve:

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In the game, Vietnamese players can not only take and take a bit, but also create some scoring opportunities, which really has the taste of "small quick spirit":

’s shot on Grant’s arm did not allow the referee to make a penalty decision. After that, they lost three points in the Australian high-altitude bombing:

1 -3 Saudi Arabia, 0-1 Australia, this score is completely acceptable to Vietnam.

as the sixth gear team,Vietnam is still a weak team on the stage of the top twelve matches, but if you want to win against them, you must not only use their shortcomings in confrontation, but also create a space that can take advantage of their shortcomings through technology.

can't do this. It will be very difficult to reap the victory by simply relying on long passes. After all, their characteristics determine that they may take a bite at any time.

"How many years has Chinese football been since the 1990s? How many primary and middle school students are playing football? An average of 10,000 people per year, and it is estimated that there will be less than 10,000 in the next few years, only a few thousand people. By comparison, There are 2.08 million registered youths in Germany, 1.03 million in France, 820,000 in the United Kingdom, and 230,000 in Argentina. There is no exact figure in Japan, but there are 100,000 in high school leagues. I have been to Japan and estimate that the total number is more than 1 million. Even Thailand and Vietnam. There are many more kids playing football than us.”

In recent years, Zhang Lu kept mentioning this set of data in the process of promoting campus football. As one of the mentioned, the official Vietnamese media "VTC" stated in the report: "Getting high praise from China is something to be proud of for Vietnamese football. However, we need to continue to work hard. In order to maintain a good performance, because when a country praises us, it means that they will pay more attention to our opponent when they fight, and they will have stronger determination and fighting spirit."

This is exactly where both sides are. The real mood before the game.

Vietnam hopes to verify the results of its hard work over the past ten years through this real match with the Chinese team, and the national football team most hopes that there will be no mistakes in this match, because that means a new one. The shame was born.

in this top 12 competition,Vietnam is very clear about what their result will be. Their real goal is the Asian qualifiers after the expansion of the World Cup in 2026. By then, the Asian region is expected to get more than 8 places. They hope to fulfill their dream of playing the World Cup at that time.

So, as ESPN reporter Linh Pham wrote in the article: