Nghe An Newspaper Cup 2019: Nghia Dan determined to 'take revenge'

Although they have not competed in the Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth Football Tournament for long, the Nghia Dan football teams have left a good impression in the hearts of the audience, thanks to their good playing style, enthusiastic spirit and have many times shaken the goals of "heavyweight" opponents.

Promoting its inherent potential and aiming for a higher goal, this year, Nghia Dan changed the form of military recruitment, expanding training sites across the district to attract children from remote areas. In addition to the training site in the town, the district soon established new training sites in the communes of Nghia An, Nghia Hong, Nghia Lam, and Nghia Trung, thanks to which many talented children with a passion for football were discovered, nurtured, and "joined" the national teams.

Scene of a practice session of Nghia Dan youth football team.

The highlight of the Nghia Dan youth football teams this year is that they have gathered about 80% of the youth players who are both good at studying and good at playing football. This is an ideal number that not every team has.

Bright faces with special talents such as Vo Thanh Huy (Nghia Thinh) - the team's goal scorer, Nguyen Hoang Vu (Nghia Yen) with a high "weirdness" in competition, Nguyen Thanh Dat (Nghia An), Dang Van Vinh (Nghia Son) are players with "powerful" left feet... highly appreciated by the coaching staff.

Compared to other districts, Nghia Dan football team really does not have many outstanding individuals, but is a united, determined group, always eager to overcome and conquer the opponent.

In the final days, the teachers and students of Nghia Dan football team focused on improving free kicks, responding and changing with tactical diagrams.

The concern of teachers and students of Nghia Dan football teams for the past few years is the technical facilities for training. It is known that Nghia Dan has just been separated from the district, there is no central stadium, no gymnasium, the material conditions... are still difficult. To prepare for the new football tournament, the coaching staff has to rent artificial turf fields in the communes, so they are quite passive in the training process.

However, despite the difficulties, Nghia Dan football teams have received support from parents. They are not only enthusiastic fans, but also generous donors who are willing to support funding and take charge of the team's exchanges in and outside the province.

In recent years, the Nghia Dan youth football coaching staff has had to rent fields in other communes to practice.

With only 1 week left, the Youth Football Tournament of Nghe An Newspaper Cup has started, these days, the Nghia Dan youth football teams are entering the final stage. Coach Nguyen Danh Dan - who is considered the Park Hang-seo of the "red land" is urging the athletes to practice finishing "free kicks", practice responding, and change with tactical diagrams... It is expected that in the last days, there will be only light training, relaxing, so that the athletes will be at their best when entering the tournament.

The head coach of Nghia Dan football team received flowers from parents and young athletes on his birthday.

In order to overcome the team's limitations, recently, Nghia Dan football teams have actively promoted sending their players to compete and exchange with many teams in the province such as Hung Nguyen, Dien Chau, Quy Hop, Vinh City... Through these matches, we hope to gain more competition experience, increase practical experience, so that the players can be more confident against their opponents.

According to the coaching staff, of the two youth football teams of Nghia Dan, the ND team has been well prepared, trained and practiced a lot, so the quality is better, aiming for the finals, winning medals, while the TN team only participates to test their strength, trying to pass the qualifying round.

Nghia Dan determined to "take revenge" in the new season.

Accompanying Nghe An Newspaper for 4 seasons, Nghia Dan youth football teams only stopped at the quarter-finals, leaving many tears of regret for the coaches, athletes and devoted parents. This year, with careful preparation, the mountain town football team hopes to make a new miracle.

“Although the material conditions for training are still difficult, both teachers and students of Nghia Dan football teams still strive to improve. The wholehearted support and encouragement of fans, especially parents, is a great source of motivation for Nghia Dan Youth and Children's Football. With their burning passion, we hope that the children will reap new successes in this year's Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth and Children's Football Tournament.”

Mr. Dau Huy Hai - Deputy Director of Nghia Dan District Cultural Center