Youth football story in "Choa's hometown"

(Baonghean.vn) - It is quite a proud thing that the coach who will be in charge of the national U13 final match this year for Viettel is also a coach from Nghe An, Coach Nguyen Thanh Cong, son of former national team coach Nguyen Thanh Vinh. Sitting on the U13 SLNA coaching bench is Coach Le Ky Phuong, a teacher considered to be the most exemplary and dedicated to his job at SLNA.

Few people remember that in 2012, while being the assistant coach of SLNA, Le Ky Phuong felt uncomfortable, so he applied to become a youth coach. Everyone knows that the income of a youth coach is only 1/3 of the first team, but that is how Le Ky Phuong is, being able to do what he likes is happiness.

Final match between U13 SLNA - U13 Viettel

At the Youth Football Tournament of Nghe An Newspaper Cup last year, three "child stars" were introduced: Dinh Hung - Van Bach of Yen Thanh and Xuan Tien of Nam Dan. Representatives of the "rich guy" HAGL quickly showed up to meet the parents of the Dinh Hung - Van Bach duo of Yen Thanh. Coach Le Ky Phuong and representatives of SLNA also got involved very early, but due to disadvantages in training conditions and family benefits, they were only able to keep Van Bach, the best player of this year's U13 national tournament. After that, Dinh Hung was the only child player signed a 7-year contract by HAGL in that selection round. Unfortunately, this year, U13 HAGL was eliminated early, so he did not have the opportunity to shine. Seeing the duo Van Bach and Xuan Tien of U13 SLNA tirelessly attacking and defending for 60 minutes, making it impossible for the young players of U13 Viettel in the final match to approach the U13 SLNA goal, we can see how hard Le Ky Phuong worked.

To have the SLNA U13 captain - Dinh Xuan Tien present at Thai Binh Stadium to participate in this year's tournament is also a "long" and equally thrilling story. Xuan Tien went to Vinh to train and was highly appreciated but then returned home because he missed his mother. Unable to convince him, Mr. Phuong had to let his student return to Nam Thanh, Nam Dan but tried to tell Tien's father to let him sleep away from his mother, to avoid getting used to her. He had to call his family 5 or 7 times, then ride a motorbike more than 30 km to Tien's school to meet, ask the principal, the head teacher and his classmates to encourage Xuan Tien to "come down the mountain" to join SLNA.

Coach Le Ky Phuong

Coach Le Ky Phuong confided: "I worked hard, willing to accept renting a house for Tien and his mother to be close together so that SLNA does not lose a talent, so that he can develop his full potential." Not many people know that this statement comes from a coach who, if he wants to leave SLNA's training center and go somewhere else, will be ready to welcome him with double or even triple his income, which makes him appreciate Ky Phuong even more.

Le Ky Phuong must have a heart devoted to his profession and a great love for his students to have such profound thoughts. If in the future Dinh Xuan Tien becomes a star on the Vietnamese football field like Van Quyen or Cong Vinh, the story of Coach Ky Phuong climbing the mountain 5 times to "pray for talent" so that SLNA and the country's football can have a special football talent will be mentioned by many people.

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