Will Vietnamese Futsal learn a 'difficult lesson' from Argentina or Brazil?

That is a worthy reward, a happy ending for Ricardinho and his teammates at the Portuguese national team, when this talented and exemplary captain has tirelessly devoted himself to the maroon team for many years and is truly an inspiration to his teammates and to the team.futsal, despite the erosion of time and age…

Many people say that the Portuguese team in this tournament was both good and lucky, so they completely deserved the championship. Meanwhile, the person with the highest responsibility for Vietnamese futsal, Mr. Tran Anh Tu, identified the "model" that we need to learn the most is Argentina. That is learning how to courageously give responsibility to domestic coaches, even when they are very young; the spirit of solidarity, creating collective strength and tactical discipline when the team does not have outstanding stars...

To put it more broadly, from many different perspectives, the fact that the Vietnam National Team participated in the World Cup for the second time clearly “learned” many valuable experiences that are not easy to obtain, from failures and successes, no matter how small. But of course, that is not enough, if we hope for a new step of development for Vietnamese futsal.

Vietnam futsal team

In reality, futsal is still a suitable playground and shines for many older, experienced players such as Falcao (Brazil) in the past, or Ricardinho (Portugal) at present. The previous Vietnam national team had the participation of Bao Quan, the eldest brother, but he soon gave way to his younger brother. This opens up a possibility that the Vietnam national team, in addition to rejuvenating its force, should still maintain players who have played in major tournaments, continuously maintaining their form and desire to contribute, regardless of time and years.

The success of the Russian team, Kazakhstan team or Japan team... had an important mark of the naturalized Brazilian foreign players. The Vietnamese team certainly cannot forget the goal that broke the deadlock of the Russian team in the round of 16 by Robinho - a player of Brazilian origin, to know how superior their ability was even though the Vietnamese team at that time organized an impeccable defense.

But never forget a truth in football: it is not new for a star player to miss a penalty kick from 11m or 5m, and it is not unusual for Brazilian stars. At this Futsal World Cup, the Brazilian-born Russian star Romulo missed a 5m penalty kick, causing the team to be eliminated from the quarter-finals against Argentina. Or a Brazilian star who played very well and contributed to the Kazakhstan national team, Douglas, also missed a penalty kick in the semi-final against Portugal... these are concrete examples of the "two-faced" unity in each naturalized star player.

The Vietnamese national team has long considered calling up only Vietnamese players who were born, raised and played abroad like Van Lam, allowing many clubs to recruit and naturalize, but calling up naturalized stars has hardly been raised? This is not a new story in the world football village, including futsal, but for Vietnam, we still have to look ahead and look behind according to the motto of self-reliance and self-reliance. Even the famous Italy also naturalized the entire Brazilian team with 6 players; Russia, through naturalization, brought futsal to the European championship and world runner-up; Japan naturalized Brazilian players for both 11-a-side football and more than half of the futsal team to become the "giant" of the continent and laid the foundation for Japanese futsal to develop as it is today...

The reason why we have to mention the naturalized players is because the excellent futsal skills only Brazilians have, are a valuable "export" from the homeland of the passionate Samba dance. Although they have made great progress and are very commendable, it is still impossible to say what the Vietnamese futsal players have learned after facing the Brazilians recently with an overwhelming defeat (1-9). Just talking about the "difficult lesson" of playing with their backs to the opponent's goal, using physical strength to press, using technique to keep the ball, dribbling the ball hard, pulling the ball to create a chance to shoot or passing the ball for teammates to finish is something everyone must... learn for life from the Brazilians.

Let's listen to a famous Brazilian futsal coach, Mr. M. Sorato confide, "A futsal player who wants to be successful must handle the ball well in a narrow area. He must think during the match and perfect his defensive and offensive skills." Let's recall the goals of Vietnamese futsal at the World Cup finals this time (Dinh Hung, Van Hieu, Duc Hoa, Dac Huy, Doan Phat...), let's look at the way the team organizes defense and counterattacks... to know where we have progressed and where we are, what we need to do to continue to conquer new milestones ahead?

So, whether Vietnamese futsal learns a "difficult lesson" from Argentina or Brazil is not an easy question to answer, if not to say that all the world's best must be learned, it's just a matter of who learns more and who learns less!