Thai newspaper speaks out about Vietnam volleyball team's decision to withdraw from continental tournament
Thai media paid attention to the fact that Vietnamese volleyball team did not participate in the major tournament held in November this year.
SheetThairathrecently published an article about Vietnam's volleyball team not participating in the 2024 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG). This tournament will take place from November 21 to November 30 in Thailand.
"Vietnam volleyball has a reason for not sending the U20 women's and men's volleyball teams to participate in the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games," the newspaper said.Thairathheadline. This newspaper then quoted information from SGGP newspaper about the reason why Vietnamese volleyball was absent from the above tournament. That is because AIMAG 2024 coincided with the time of the second phase of this year's National Championship.
The decision of Vietnamese volleyball not to participate in AIMAG 2024 has made many fans regretful. Meanwhile, this decision also surprised the Thai media.
Young Vietnamese players will miss the opportunity to gain experience in the continental tournament. It is known that the volleyball event at AIMAG 2024 requires an age limit of U20 for participating athletes, in addition to 2 slots with no age limit.
This is the first time volleyball has been included in the AIMAG. Although unable to participate in the AIMAG, young Vietnamese players still have another major tournament this year, the U20 Asia Championship taking place in July in China. In this tournament, Thailand, Iran and Vietnam are in Group C.
According to the format of the U20 Asia, 12 teams will compete to find the top 2 teams representing Asia to participate in the 2025 FIVB U21 Women's Volleyball Championship. In this tournament, the best achievement of Vietnamese volleyball was winning 4th place in 2016. Vietnam has hosted the U20 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship 3 times in 2002, 2010 and 2018./.
