The story of training young people at Song Lam Nghe An and concerns

Song Lam Nghe An's traditional room is always filled with awards, cup titles, flags, and many individual players who have grown up and contributed to their hometown team and the country, which speaks for itself.

Besides affirming the many achievements in youth training, it is also necessary to fully recognize the difficulties, obstacles, shortcomings, and weaknesses that this training center is facing, struggling to find its way, and even gradually falling behind other training centers.

Competition results of the 2023 season of the youth teamsLam River Nghe Anshows that if specific and long-term problems are not promptly handled, the existing "success cycle" will soon end, forcing it to give way to competitors overnight.

The first issue is to resolve the problem of annual training budget for youth teams, absolutely do not let the situation of unpaid allowances and bonuses for youth teams linger like in the past. Why was this issue not raised before, but since the new sponsor has come back, it has become an issue and cannot be resolved? Let's try to find out how localities/sectors with similar situations are working together to resolve them in a legal, reasonable and equitable manner? If we keep blaming the mechanism, bidding, this and that according to regulations without sitting together with goodwill and responsibility, then we will still owe allowances until Tet, and after the holidays we still cannot pay them as has been rumored? Of course, in this story, the responsibility is not only on the team leaders or training centers, but also requires the cooperation of the sports and financial sectors... to be able to get to the bottom of the matter. As for the current "common father", in the end, it will only make "the children cry".

Another story that needs to be taken care of and thoroughly handled, after the recent U11 scandal, if not mentioned, everyone knows the root cause, where does it come from? The disease of achievement is not a new story, it was thought to have been permanently removed after the disciplinary action from the industry leaders to the club, like a "dark mirror" eliminated in football life, including the movement, but sadly it continues to exist in a more clever and sophisticated form. Once those who have good intentions to maintain a movement, a local brand as a civilized behavior, they themselves should also know how to "close the door and talk to each other", know their mistakes, know how to correct them, the sooner, the better, when everything is still under control. We must know how to accept sacrificing achievements for a few seasons to put everything back in order as it should be, it is a must. And certainly, this is not difficult, just be bold enough to do it, do it thoroughly or not, so that each position is in the right position, each age is the right age, no one can find fault, sue or... go back to the hometown to find out the background and maternity leave papers of the children's mothers from which year, which year...

Another more fundamental and long-term issue, the question that is more difficult to answer is why the U-21 teams that have achieved high results, but as they get older, their performance becomes worse compared to other training centers? The glorious achievements of U21 Song Lam Nghe An are now just like a distant flash of lightning, and the most specific and recent is being eliminated for breaking the rules last season, starting this season losing to U21 Kon Tum at Vinh Stadium in the opening match, despite playing with a squad of top players that everyone knows by face and name.

People can be proud of the fact that many young players from Song Lam Nghe An have joined the U17 team, or the U23 Vietnam team, but remember that at the present time, the Vietnam team under Mr. Troussier is completely lacking in names from Vinh Stadium? The U23 Vietnam team led by Mr. Troussier himself only has a few names, the rest are the "second team" led by Mr. Hoang Anh Tuan. To be exact, after the time of Cong Vinh, Van Quyen, Ngoc Hai, Trong Hoang, Van Duc, the Vinh Stadium team can only provide second-class human resources for the Vietnam teams, including the youth teams, Xuan Tien, Van Cuong or Nam Hai cannot be compared to Van Khang, Thai Son or Tuan Tai in the assessment of the French coach and experts, and fans near and far.

For a long time, some potential young players were promoted to the first team by Song Lam Nghe An, but rarely played and were often brought back to play for U21, so they kept their feet, did not play well, and did not leave any mark. Van Cuong, Xuan Dai or Van Bach in the recent match are specific proofs. Unfortunately, whoever was promoted or demoted to the first team after the national U21 tournament, these players were naturally present because they had been promoted before and had played well. Before the U21 tournament, Song Lam Nghe An had a famous young squad, which turned out not to scare or make anyone retreat, but instead only served as a catalyst for others to prove that they were not inferior to anyone, regardless of who was labeled as a national team, played enthusiastically internationally, but when they returned home, their wings folded and fell apart like this...

“Without a teacher, you can’t do anything” is always true, in life in general and football in particular. There is no shortage of talented and dedicated teachers at Song Lam. The problem is whether they are respected, placed in the right place, or let the talented teachers go to other provinces to contribute. The story of a football team “bleeding talent” has long been understood to be from the players, but now it seems to have spread to the “teachers and players” as well. If there are no positive measures, who knows how much talent Song Lam will “run out” in the near future?

Youth football is always the foundation for a team, a football force if done really well, really sustainably and keeps up with the general trend. The Song Lam Nghe An team is in trouble, the 2023 season is passing with obvious disappointments. In the 2023-2024 V-League season, the team will certainly have the "achievement" of using the most young players (of course), but the professional achievements of individuals and groups seem to be as difficult as... reaching the sky? Because if the incomplete stories mentioned above are not addressed, everything will be dragged on, distracted, and the U and 1 teams will continue to "lose" to the world, even at home?