Ho Chi Minh City Club: Toshiya Miura leaves, Nguyen Huu Thang arrives?
(Baonghean.vn) - The Japanese strategist is facing the risk of being fired as Ho Chi Minh City Club has had to continuously receive bad results recently.
Entering this season, Ho Chi Minh City Club is highly appreciated by experts. The appearance of former Vietnam National Team coach - Toshiya Miura on the coaching bench, along with a series of famous rookies such as Tran Phi Son, Do Van Thuan or Vu Ngoc Thinh. The leadership of Ho Chi Minh City Club itself does not hide its ambition when setting a goal for the team to be in the TOP 3 of V.League 2018.
However, things did not go as expected by the management, coaching staff, players and fans of Ho Chi Minh City Club. Starting with the defeat at FLC Thanh Hoa in the second round of V.League (0 - 1), followed by 2 losses with the same score of 0 - 2 against SLNA (1 match in V.League, 1 match in the National Cup), pushing this team into a real crisis. The force was seriously damaged due to injuries (Tran Phi Son, Gustavo, Do Van Thuan...) and penalty cards (Truong Dinh Luat, Sam Ngoc Duc).
In such a chaotic situation, Acting Chairman Le Cong Vinh suddenly left Ho Chi Minh City Club. Coach Toshiya Miura and his team were like "headless snakes". The defeat at Hoa Xuan Stadium against SHB Da Nang (0-3) in the 8th round was inevitable. From the force to the fighting spirit, from the playing style to the results achieved, Ho Chi Minh City Club did not meet the expectations of experts and fans.
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| Coach Toshiya Miura is under a lot of pressure at Ho Chi Minh City Club. Photo: Internet |
Coach Toshiya Miura is not small in the above situation. Applying a training program that focuses heavily on physical strength has caused Ho Chi Minh City Club to lose its strength due to injuries to key players such as Tran Phi Son, Do Van Thuan, etc.
Besides, the playing style that the Japanese strategist applied to Ho Chi Minh City Club was not only criticized by opponents (Coach Vo Dinh Tan of S.Khanh Hoa and Coach Nguyen Duc Thang), but also caused Truong Dinh Luat and Sam Ngoc Duc to suffer heavy penalties from VFF.
Witnessing what is happening at Ho Chi Minh City Club, experts say that Coach Toshiya Miura is about to resign or be fired. Although the Ho Chi Minh City Club leadership has spoken out to guarantee the position of the strategist born in 1963, anything can happen in football. For example, the case of Le Cong Vinh. Few people thought that the former SLNA player would leave his position as acting President of Ho Chi Minh City Club so quickly.
If Ho Chi Minh City FC does not improve its performance in the next few rounds, the prospect of coach Toshiya Miura packing his bags and returning to Japan is quite clear. Once Le Cong Vinh, the person who tried to convince coach Toshiya Miura to take over the hot seat at Ho Chi Minh City FC, is no longer in office, it is only a matter of time before the former captain of the Vietnam national team has to "go out".
Simply put, coach Toshiya Miura is gradually losing the trust and sympathy of the leadership and fans of Ho Chi Minh City Club because of his playing style and results.
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| Coach Nguyen Huu Thang is being contacted by the leadership of Ho Chi Minh City Club. Photo courtesy: Hai Thinh |
People go, people come. Recently, the leadership of Ho Chi Minh City Club has contacted Coach Nguyen Huu Thang. According to information appearing in the newspapers, the former coach of Vietnam National Team will work for Ho Chi Minh City Club in early June.
The specific job that Coach Nguyen Huu Thang will undertake is to be in charge of youth training at the football academies of Ho Chi Minh City Club and Binh Minh Group. That is, the appearance of Coach Nguyen Huu Thang does not affect the future of Coach Toshiya Miura at Ho Chi Minh City Club.
However, the story of Coach Nguyen Huu Thang joining Ho Chi Minh City Club is not that simple. There is no way a famous coach with many degrees (one of the best in Vietnamese football) would accept to work as a youth trainer.
Don’t forget, in the past, Coach Nguyen Huu Thang has never worked in SLNA youth teams. Therefore, Coach Nguyen Huu Thang signed a contract with Ho Chi Minh City Club, just to replace Coach Toshiya Miura at an appropriate time?
Most likely, Coach Toshiya Miura will have to give up his seat for Coach Nguyen Huu Thang for the second time, as happened with the Vietnam National Team in 2016. The pressure is on the Japanese strategist!
