Club President - The story of 'boss' and 'employee'

(Baonghean) - Last week, Ho Chi Minh City FC acting chairman Le Cong Vinh officially fired coach Alain Fiard. This is considered a move to "clear the way" for coach Toshiya Miura or Henrique Calisto to return to Vietnam. According to experts, Cong Vinh's firing of the French coach at this time is too late, when the V.League has only 2 more rounds to end.

Cong Vinh and coach Alain Fiard. Photo: Internet

This year, although Ho Chi Minh City Club is a rookie, it has been invested quite thoroughly, from the changing room to the new vehicles. With his connections, Cong Vinh has brought to Ho Chi Minh City Club many national and former players such as Phuoc Vinh, Dinh Luat, Quang Vinh, Au Van Hoan and quality foreign players such as Victor.

However, in the end, the Ho Chi Minh City team only managed to stay in the league, and the goals that Cong Vinh set at the beginning of the season such as: attracting spectators to the stadium, the club having good results on the rankings... had to be postponed until next season.

Thus, as the acting president of Ho Chi Minh City Club in this first season, Cong Vinh has failed to achieve the goals set out from the beginning. Although CV9 has used every relationship to attract players to play for the club and tricks such as personally selling tickets and going down to the field to thank the audience...

Cong Vinh on the day he took office as acting President of Ho Chi Minh City Club. Photo: Internet

Therefore, the move to fire the French coach at this time is simply because Cong Vinh wants to "pour" all the failures of Ho Chi Minh City FC this season onto this coach rather than because of "professionalism". Because if Ho Chi Minh City FC wins both remaining matches of the season, it will "be useless" when the relegation has been completed.

Due to failure in achieving the goals set in his role as manager of a club in V.Lueague, Cong Vinh is doing everything to prove himself. In addition to firing the coach, CV9 is trying to lure star player Phi Son to join the Ho Chi Minh City club. Regarding the information that his player is being lured by Cong Vinh, SLNA coach Nguyen Duc Thang said: “I think Le Cong Vinh is doing his job. And Vinh is just a person working for the bosses. That is very normal, not too big of a deal. Phi Son's story is similar to Cong Vinh's in the past, going to a good place, that's all.”

Cong Vinh is eager to recruit a whole army to find a general to build Ho Chi Minh City Club into a strong and influential team in the V.League. But CV9's management of a club today is not as easy as scoring a goal against the opponent when he was still a "boy". Although he is the acting President of the Club, in reality, Cong Vinh is still "just a person working for the bosses", and when things do not go according to the boss's wishes, it is very likely that Cong Vinh's position will not exist.

It is not yet known whether Cong Vinh will be able to invite coach Miura or Calisto and buy more players in the upcoming season, but coach Alain Fiard has unintentionally become the "scapegoat" for CV9. And in the future, if Ho Chi Minh City FC does not play successfully, the next person to be fired will be none other than the "employee" Le Cong Vinh, and that is "very normal" in the relationship between "boss" and "employee".

Duc Dung