The Philippine national team naturalized 8 European and American players to wait for the match against Vietnam; Coach Troussier has a surprise destination?
(Baonghean.vn) - Coach Troussier has a surprising destination?; The Philippines national team naturalizes 8 European and American players to wait for the match against Vietnam; Arsenal boldly liquidates 10 players... are notable sports news in the past 24 hours.
Having just left the Vietnam team, will coach Troussier have a very surprising destination?
Recently, Bola Okezone newspaper unexpectedly confirmed that coach Troussier is the candidate for the position of PSSI Technical Director.
“Former Vietnam coach Troussier has become a candidate for the position of PSSI Technical Director. The highest authority of Indonesian football is looking for a suitable person for this position. The position of Technical Director previously belonged to coach Indra Sjafri. However, Mr. Indra Sjafri has now left the position to focus on his work with the Indonesian U20 team,” wrote Bola Okezone.
Indonesian media said that coach Troussier is very experienced and completely suitable for Indonesian football.
Recently, coach Troussier also attended the match between U23 Indonesia and U23 Guinea in the play-off match for tickets to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Regarding the position of PSSI Technical Director, Mr. Arya Sinulingga - member of the PSSI executive board, said: "We have a list of candidates in hand but cannot disclose further details yet. The final decision will be announced in the coming days."
The Philippine national team naturalized 8 European and American players to play against Vietnam.
According to Philippine media, the coach of the Philippine national team, Tom Saintfiet, personally followed players of Filipino origin who had played in Europe and the United States to convince them to play for their home team. He made a satisfactory list and then called the selected players.
The players who agreed will be proposed to the Philippine Football Federation for naturalization and at this time, all procedures are being completed. In the training session next June, he will have 8 foreign stars in hand.
Sharing with the national press, Mr. Tom Saintfiet affirmed that in the two matches against Vietnam and Indonesia on June 6 and 11, these players will be ready to play and they will help improve the quality of the Philippine team. Saintfiet said: "The possibility is up to 90%. The players' passports are ready for the matches next month."
The eight names that are likely to appear in the match against Vietnam on June 6 are Raphael Obermair, Anthony Markanich, Joseph Baccat, Zico Bailey, Dylan Demuynck, Johannes Selven, Bjorn Martin Christensen and Adrian Ugelvik.
Vietnam team is the number 1 seed in the Southeast Asian Cup
On May 13, the Southeast Asian Football Federation (AFF) held a meeting to deploy the organization of the 2024 Southeast Asian Football Championship (ASEAN Mitsubishi Electric Cup 2024).
AFF approved the proposal on seeding of teams participating in the 2024 Southeast Asian Football Championship. Accordingly, Vietnam and Thailand are the two teams seeded number 1 when drawing lots to divide the groups.
Pot 2 consists of Indonesia and Malaysia. Pot 3 consists of Singapore and the Philippines. Myanmar and Cambodia are in Pot 4. Finally, Pot 5 consists of Laos and the winner of the play-off between Brunei and Timor Leste.
The seeding group is based on the performance of the teams in the last two AFF Cups. The Vietnamese team and the Indonesian team both have 19 points (both have won the runner-up position twice), but the Vietnamese team is ranked higher thanks to a better sub-index than their opponents.
Starting from this year’s season, the AFF Cup will officially be renamed the ASEAN Cup. The draw will be held on May 21 in Hanoi.
The 10 teams are divided into two groups of five teams each, playing a round-robin format of two home and two away matches based on the draw numbers. The top two teams in each group will advance to the semi-finals. The semi-finals and finals will still take place in the same home and away format as in previous editions.
The 2024 ASEAN Cup is considered a particularly important goal for the new head coach of the Vietnamese national team, Kim Sang-sik. The VFF assigned Mr. Kim the task of taking the Vietnamese team to the final match of the tournament. This is not a simple challenge because Vietnamese football is in a period of decline in both performance and personnel.
Arsenal is strong in selling 10 players
Right now, Mikel Arteta and his colleagues have outlined the direction for the 2024/2025 season, even though Arsenal is competing for the Premier League title with Man City.
The Spanish coach hopes to cut staff, selling some members who are no longer in the long-term plan.
According to Mirror, about 10 Arsenal players will have to pack up and leave Emirates Stadium in this summer transfer window.
The Gunners are now ready to listen to offers for Eddie Nketiah, Emile Smith Rowe, Aaron Ramsdale, Kieran Tierney, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Nuno Tavares and Reiss Nelson.
In addition, Mohamed Elneny, Cedric Soares and Arthur Okonkwo were also forced to say goodbye to The Gunners when their contracts expired in June 2024.
Sporting director Edu hopes the club will earn a large sum of money from selling quality players such as Nketiah, Smith Rowe, Ramsdale and Tierney./.
