Opportunity for U23 Vietnam to earn the first 3 points

Vietnam U23 teamjust won 3-0 against Kyrgyzstan U23 team in the training session before the 2022 AFC U23 Championship Qualifiers, thanks to a goal from the 11m mark by Le Van Do and a double by Tran Van Dat, Chinese Taipei U23 team is losing both soldiers and generals. Meanwhile, the internal situation of Chinese Taipei U22 team is quite chaotic due to internal sanctions.

The fact that the young players of the U23 Chinese Taipei team have not had discipline in their daily life is something that the press of this country has said for a long time. Recently, the Taiwan Football Association (CTFA) decided to discipline 6 players of the national team for the scandal of... drinking all night and forgetting to check in the morning of the match against Indonesia in the play-off round before the 2022 Asian Cup qualifiers.

Coach Park and his team will have the first 3 points on their journey to conquer the 2022 AFC U23 Championship. Photo: VFF

Not long after, the CTFA issued a penalty, with one player banned from the national team for 6 months, and three other players banned from the national team for 1 year with fines of 10,000 - 30,000 yuan. Only defender Liang Meng-hsin and midfielder Lin Ming-wei - two U19 players who had just been promoted to the U23 team - received a lighter penalty, with a warning in front of the whole team.

Previously, since the end of August, some players in the national team also skipped the team to drink alcohol and the federation warned coach Vom Ca-Nhum. Then, the situation recurred in September so this coach was suspended and the coaching role was temporarily handed over to assistant Ye Xianzhong.

Immediately, coach Vom Ca-Nhum reacted by saying that CTFA did not support him and the coaching staff in managing the players, which led to this situation:“In the meetings, the coaching staff corrected the players' drinking behavior and punished them from the beginning. But I urged the General Secretary to send someone to support the team with logistics, but the General Secretary always refused and refused!".

To put pressure, this coach appeared very upset and declared that all members of the coaching staff would resign collectively: "Except for the coach and goalkeeper, who are foreigners and still have long-term contracts, the remaining members of the coaching staff will resign. I will choose the coaching staff and we will work together."

Coach Vom Ca-Nhum held a press conference to respond to CTFA. Photo: CTFA

Currently, Mr. Chen Jiunn-ming and his students in the U23 team have been in Kyrgyzstan since October 15 to prepare for Group I of the 2022 U23 Asian qualifiers. It is known that this strategist still brought two players who received disciplinary warnings, Liang Meng-hsin and Lin Ming-wei.

In fact, when they have enough force, U22 Taipei is not a very strong team. In history, they lost to U22 Laos 2-0, drew U23 Cambodia 1-1, and recently the U22 Taipei team received a final defeat of 1-5 against Indonesia after two matches in the 2023 Asian Cup play-off round.

Previously, due to the pandemic, Taiwan was not qualified to register as the host of Group I of the 2022 AFC U23 Championship qualifiers, so AFC had to move the group to Kyrgyzstan, which caused them to lose a significant advantage. In other words, it is easy for Mr. Park and his team to get the first 3 points on their journey to conquer2022 AFC U23 Championship Finals./.