Two Song Lam Nghe An players were called up to the Vietnam U23 team to participate in the U23 Asia qualifiers.
(Baonghean.vn) - To prepare for the 2024 U23 Asian qualifiers of the Vietnam U23 team next September, coach Philippe Troussier has called up 22 players, including defender Ho Van Cuong and goalkeeper Cao Van Binh of the Song Lam Nghe An club.
The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has established two Vietnam U23 teams for separate tasks, one of which is led by coach Hoang Anh Tuan and is participating in the upcoming U23 Southeast Asian finals and the 19th Asiad in Hangzhou, China.
The remaining U23 Vietnam team that will participate in the 2024 U23 Asian qualifiers will gather the best players in the U23 age group of Vietnamese football, directly managed by coach Philippe Troussier. This team will train in parallel with the National Team during FIFA days next September.
Not only participating in the 2024 U23 Asian qualifiers, the excellent players in this U23 squad will be selected to join the National Team for the second qualifying round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, starting in November.
As planned, tomorrow, August 23, the Vietnam U23 team participating in the 2024 U23 Asian qualifiers led by coach Philippe Troussier will gather with the National Team to prepare for FIFA days in September, at the Vietnam Youth Football Training Center (VFF).
In the list of 22 players called up for the first training session, the vast majority are new faces wearing the U23 Vietnam jersey for the first time. Coach Philippe Troussier has maximized opportunities for all players he considers to have potential.
They are all very young faces and are mainly playing for clubs in the national First and Second Divisions. The highlight of this list is defender Ho Van Cuong, when he and U22 Vietnam had a quite successful SEA Games in Cambodia recently, he is also a player who regularly plays in V-League 2023.
However, as mentioned above, in the first training phase, coach Philippe Troussier focused mainly on reviewing, evaluating the performance and integration ability of the summoned players.
The U23 Vietnam squad will change after the V.League ends and the U23 Vietnam team led by coach Hoang Anh Tuan returns from the 2023 Southeast Asian U23 Championship in Thailand. At that time, the best players of the U23 Vietnam team will be added to the squad for the 2024 Asian U23 Qualifiers.
As planned, Group C of the 2024 AFC U23 Championship qualifiers hosted by Vietnam will take place from September 6-12 at Viet Tri Stadium (Phu Tho) with the participation of 4 teams: U23 Singapore, U23 Guam, U23 Yemen and host U23 Vietnam.
The teams compete in a round-robin format, selecting 1 first-place team and competing for one of the 4 second-place positions in the remaining 10 groups with the best results to participate in the final round with host U23 Qatar.
According to the schedule, U23 Vietnam will have its opening match against U23 Guam on September 6, U23 Yemen on September 9 and U23 Singapore on September 12./.
