ASIAN Cup 2023: Coach Troussier determined to hide his cards
According to the announcement from VFF, the Vietnam team will only open one training session for the media this afternoon (January 3), before leaving for Qatar to attend the 2023 Asian Cup finals on January 5, 2024.
Working time is also limited to the first 20 minutes of the practice session, which is the time when the players warm up.
Since the full squad was assembled on December 31, 2023, the Vietnamese team has only practiced in private, and up to now, no information or images related to the Vietnamese team have been officially released.
It can be seen that coach Philippe Troussier is carrying out the work of securing information about the Vietnamese team in the most intensive and thorough manner compared to previous foreign coaches of the national team, even much more strictly than with a coach known to be meticulous like Mr. Park Hang Seo.
It is not difficult to explain why Mr. Troussier wants to keep information about the Vietnamese team secret, because after a series of unimpressive matches in terms of results or playing style in the first 9 months of 2023 with both the Vietnamese team and the U23 Vietnam team, the French coach really needs to have a positive result with the Vietnamese team in the upcoming 2023 Asian Cup finals.
If he wants to do that, Mr. Troussier must create surprises for the heavyweight opponents in the group stage such as Japan or Iraq, and even Indonesia of coach Shin Tae Yong. In the current era of information explosion, any image of the Vietnamese team, if leaked unintentionally, can become a suggestion for the opposing teams.
Therefore, this is one of the reasons why fans and experts do not have any idea about how the Vietnamese team will perform in Qatar, or even how Mr. Troussier is coaching the team.Vietnam teamand the U23 team at the same time is also a mystery that is difficult to solve.
Through the way coach Troussier used personnel in the national teams in 2023, people can only partly guess that perhaps the French coach will continue to give opportunities to young players, as a way to prepare for the U23 Asian finals in 2024 as well as the 2026 World Cup. But how many young players to use or how many veterans from coach Park Hang Seo's time will be able to stay on the list to Qatar is a big question mark.
However, by calling up Ho Tan Tai, a player who he had ignored in many national team training sessions in 2023, coach Troussier showed that he himself is not an overly conservative coach, and when necessary, he does not hesitate to step over his own limits.
There is only one thing Mr. Troussier is determined not to change, which is the information security work in the Vietnam team, and for an Asian Cup 2023 worth waiting for, no one can complain to Mr. Troussier about this issue./.
