What goals will Ha Tinh Football set when it has a new sponsor?

Hong Linh Ha Tinh entered the V.League playground with the motto of "taking shortcuts, getting ahead" when taking over the former Hanoi B Club (October 2018). With a team that had trained together for many years, while the First Division did not have many teams with the economic potential to play in the V.League, Coach Pham Minh Duc led Hong Linh Ha Tinh to win the National First Division V-League 2 in 2019.

Worry about food, rice, clothes, money

Hong Linh Ha Tinh Club has a new sponsor Hoanh Son. Photo: HLHT FC

Quite special, after winning the right to compete in the V-League 2020 National Championship, the field had to be borrowed, youth training was not available but Hong Linh Ha Tinh still entered the top 8 strongest teams in V-League 2020. Meanwhile, on the North bank, SLNA with a longer history still had to accept 10th place. But that was only the best Coach Pham Minh Duc and the players of Hong Linh Ha Tinh could do. Although at Hong Linh Ha Tinh Club, Coach Pham Minh Duc has full authority over expertise, it is clear that with limited funding, the team can hardly buy the right players.

In the 2021 V-League season, both teams on the banks of the Lam River were in the red light group, and Nghe An people thought of a sad ending for one of the two teams. When the 2021 V-League had to be temporarily stopped due to the Covid-19 epidemic, if SLNA was at the bottom of the rankings, Hong Linh Ha Tinh Club temporarily ranked 10/14 after 12 rounds. Coach Pham Minh Duc had to leave the team to make way for young coach Nguyen Thanh Cong from Vinh to take over the team. Without much ambition, Hong Linh Ha Tinh was only ranked in the group with the goal of successfully staying in the league.

If in June 2021, SLNA was fortunate to be taken over by Tan Long and carry out the second major reform in its history of more than 4 decades of existence, Ha Tinh audiences were restless when the pillars left. The club had to liquidate foreign players including: central defender Kelly Kester, striker Ismahil Akinade and Walsh Chevaughn because the season would not start until February 2022. But Hong Linh Ha Tinh did not have the funds to keep quality players likePham Tuan Hai, Nguyen Van Vi, and Ly Cong Hoang Anh are all quality attacking players. Among them, Tuan Hai and Hoang Anh were once national candidates and have great potential in the future.

The team handover ceremony to Hoanh Son Group Joint Stock Company. Photo: HLHT FC

The brightest star arriving at Ha Tinh is the 2017 Golden Ball Dinh Thanh Trung and Tran Phi Ha (Da Nang), goalkeeper Phan Dinh Vu Hai and central defender Nguyen Van Hanh (Hai Phong) to prepare for the new season. More than anyone else, coach Nguyen Thanh Cong has felt the pressure when he saw many financially capable teams such as: Hanoi FC, Viettel, Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon FC, Binh Duong, Binh Dinh FC... have spent a lot of money to buy domestic and foreign players with the goal of conquering V.League 2022.

Is it systematic and long-term?

In that context, the appearance of Hoanh Son Group Joint Stock Company is a good sign for Ha Tinh football. Ha Tinh fans welcomed Hoanh Son no differently than SLNA fans welcomed Tan Long 6 months ago.

It was more difficult than Tan Long when Hoanh Son took over the management and operation of the Hong Linh Ha Tinh football team less than 2 months before the start of V.League 2022. This forced Mr. Pham Hoanh Son to race against time with the coaching staff to complete the preparation for the season. What reassured the fans on the South bank of Lam River when, during the reception of the team, Mr. Pham Hoanh Son - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hoanh Son Group Joint Stock Company committed: "After taking over the team, the unit will have a methodical, long-term direction..." Nghe An football has temporarily had the necessary conditions to flourish./.