Final list of SLNA U21 coaching staff and players

(Baonghean.vn) – Preparing for the qualifying round of the National U21 Football Championship this year, SLNA's Board of Directors has just finalized the list of coaching staff and players.

The qualifying round of the 2017 Thanh Nien Newspaper National U21 Football Championship has 20 participating teams divided into 4 groups. In which U21 SLNA is in group A including the teams: FLC Thanh Hoa, Hanoi and host Viettel.

This time, the person assigned the responsibility of bringing U21 SLNA to the final round is coach Dinh Van Dung, a coach who has achieved many successes with Nghe An youth teams in the national youth tournament.

Coach Dinh Van Dung is expected to help U21 SLNA overcome difficulties - Photo: Internet

Most recently, this coach won the championship with U21 SLNA in 2012 and 2014. And 4 times as head coach of U21 Thanh Nien Vietnam Newspaper, he won the championship twice and the remaining times were runner-up.

In the past, the coach born in 1959 also held the position of head coach of Vietnam U16 and U22. At the U20 World Cup recently held in Korea, coach Dinh Van Dung was also part of the coaching staff of Vietnam U20 team.

Although he is a coach with many years of experience in youth training and has won many titles in the past. However, this time, Mr. Dinh Van Dung's task at the U21 SLNA team is quite difficult. Because the members participating in this qualifying round, U21 SLNA only has 2 faces playing in the V.League, Phan Van Duc and Pham Xuan Manh. The rest, most of them are pillars of the U19 SLNA team, such as Duong Van Cuong, Dang Van Lam, Nguyen Van Viet...

The remaining players born in 1996 are Bui Dinh Chau, Nguyen Huu Tuan... who have only played in the First Division for a few years. Previously, two players, Mai Sy Hoang and Thai Ba Sang, were called up by coach Dinh Hong Vinh to join the Vietnam 18 team.

Group A qualifying round will be held from August 12 to 18, 2017 at Viettel Stadium. The teams will compete in a round robin to determine the ranking points in each group. The 4 first-placed teams and 3 second-placed teams with higher points and indexes in the four groups and the host team Binh Duong will be selected to compete in the Final Round.

Trung Kien