Football and 1% chance

For example, who can imagine the playerThe "cow" king(a very intimate name to refer to this player's extraordinary physical strength) was playing so "enthusiastically", so persistently, suddenly had to leave the team to receive treatment? No one thought, no one expected that after 7 long months of concentration, the players who were released from camp for a few days would "catch" Covid-19, and it was the main names Van Toan, Hoang Duc, Tien Linh!

Trong Hoang's injury has caused the Vietnamese national team to suffer many disadvantages. Photo: Dan Viet Newspaper

That is an abnormality to the point of being…normal in life. Although Trong Hoang possesses a top-notch “physical constitution” in all aspects of the national team, it does not mean that he will run forever without having a “dry spell”. As for the players getting Covid-19 in the new normal conditions, no one wants it, it is something that must be accepted when opening the door and hoping that the players will soon stabilize and join the national team.

At this time, one person's misfortune will be another person's fortune, another person's opportunity. With Trong Hoang absent, Mr. Park Hang-seo will have to choose and find another player to replace him. If he performs well or better, if that player is younger, he will take Trong Hoang's place and who knows, he will "push" the star of SLNA and the Vietnam National Team to the bench, or even to... retire!

But the miraculous reality has shown that achieving professional ability and competitive motivation like Trong Hoang is not easy. Mr. Park and the fans must be eagerly waiting for the day Hoang "crawls" back with Van Hau on the national team to create a formidable pair of wings, attacking and defending in harmony, with rare durability in Vietnamese football.

SLNA fans are now looking forward more than ever to the day when this "bulldozer" will return to work on the right wing of their hometown team, to inspire their juniors to regain the glory that the yellow team once achieved at Vinh Stadium and any stadium in the V. League.

Opportunities are opening up for Phi Son. Photo: Archive

The story of opportunity is also opening up for 2 players of Nghe origin on the national team, Phi Son and Van Dai. Of course, everyone hopes that Van Toan, Hoang Duc, and Tien Linh will soon be called up to the national team and the latest information shows that hope is well-founded. However, Phi Son and Van Dai are players who have been called up to the national team but have not been selected. Now that the opportunity has opened up, they must seize it, even though it is not easy.

Fans of Nghe An surely will not forget the story related to the two most talented players of SLNA and Vietnamese football, Van Quyen and Cong Vinh. If everything had gone smoothly for Van Quyen, his younger brother Cong Vinh would have had to spend more time and sweat to achieve the outstanding achievements he had, which many generations of players dreamed of.

The best and brightest opportunity and time is only one and only one. Those who are unlucky enough to miss it, let it slip away, the possibility of "taking it back" is extremely small, if not impossible, because the pressure from all sides is always urging right behind, always breathing down the neck of anyone. That is life moving and progressing, football developing over time, not waiting for anyone, not "respecting" anyone, not to mention the story of time wearing down anyone's strength, anyone can "hit the ceiling" at this time or another...

After all, in football, the story of 1% chance is always put before any player, at any time, any moment from the time of training in the youth teams, joining the first team, joining the national team for the first or second time, the nth time... This is not only awareness to act, to seize opportunities to move forward but in fact it is the constant movement of life, of football and sports.

Seizing small opportunities will accumulate and add points to seize big opportunities and more, as Cong Vinh has shown to be the leading star of Vietnamese football after the time of his senior Van Quyen, to seize opportunities in the AFF Cup 2008, for example. Or as Trong Hoang has shown silently, enduringly over time in the AFF Cup 2018, in the SEA Games 2019 when he was chosen as one of the two players over 23 years old to participate in leading his juniors to compete in the region to win the precious gold medal after 30 years of searching.