Noisy neighbors and the story of 'sacks of money... for soccer'
(Baonghean.vn) - In the world, there are famous football teams that always attract public opinion with "noise even when doing nothing", are very successful commercially so they often spend sacks of money to buy good coaches and good players but the results are not much, so people realize that "sacks of money don't know how to...play football" and so on, the process of changing horses in the middle of the stream continues endlessly.
The time when people bring out their money to "headhunt" until they are forced to say "thank you and good luck" is the wide open space for "explosions" that resound across the earth, beautiful resumes, promises, and countless explosions in the media that make public opinion full for many meals.
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| Thailand national football team was a successful team in the past. Photo: Vietnamnet |
Of course, everyone understands that this is a team that has been successful in the past, that has risen to win against its opponents. They used to be a team with a solid youth training foundation, a solid and impressive football philosophy, and a team of professional, high-class coaches, from which they have created success both commercially and professionally on the field.
But inevitably, there will come a time when the youth training center will not have real stars, forcing the team to hunt for reinforcements and the story will follow a 50/50 result, meaning there will be gains and losses, luck and misfortune. Then there will come a time when the most outstanding minds will go into a period of fatigue, exhaustion, unable to keep up with the developments of the times and there will be necessary generational transitions, which means there is nothing to guarantee that everything will continue to speed up, maintain the rhythm or slow down, suddenly stop. People call that the cycle of success ends, the circle of success closes, the end point of the sine graph...
From the national team perspective, Brazilian or Argentine, German or Italian football... all go through that process, meaning that no one can continuously stand firmly on the top of glory, including Brazil, which has won the World Cup 6 times. From the club perspective, Real or Barcelona, Inter or Milan, Manchester or Liverpool... will take turns reaching the top of the Champions League or national championship, but defending the title always faces countless difficulties when not only one but many domestic and foreign opponents are always "threatening" to take the place after just one wrong moment of a match or tournament. The story in Barcelona or Manchester today certainly has its origin in choosing the wrong person to hold the "money bag", so that every action of people who are not knowledgeable about the king of sports will make spending money like wind in an empty house.
First of all, is choosing a captain for the team suitable for the team's original philosophy, suitable for the team's youth training, shopping, training and competition strategy? Is the head coach the one who is "thrown" to a series of random players or does he participate and decide on the construction and addition of that important force? Is the head coach the one who leads the team to build the foundation from the beginning or for the immediate goal, is the coach attached to the title for a few seasons and then go elsewhere or will stick to the end to pursue the goal...
In top football, besides calculation and professionalism, we cannot help but mention fate and luck to create "a sack of money that knows how to play football". The latest story in the world is related to Coach Tuchel at Chelsea, although this team has experienced many levels of success and failure before. Vietnamese football does not spend as much money as other places, but there are still a few things to say about this story. That is choosing the right person to entrust gold to Korean coach Park Hang-seo to turn Vietnamese football from a "lowland" to the top position, starting to approach continental football, despite many difficulties ahead. On the other hand, the story at Ho Chi Minh City Club with the continuous creation of blockbusters in the transfer market, from foreign players to foreign coaches, but the result is still losing, falling behind and inevitably firing the ambitious foreign coach, who had been very loud before.
The story just mentioned, strangely, is related to what fans are most interested in right now, the AFF Cup 2021. The coach who was just fired by Ho Chi Minh City Club and is currently under a 4-month contract to take charge of the Thai National Team, Mr. A. Polking, has just "bragged" loudly about "overthrowing" the throne of the Vietnamese National Team. The problem is that Thai football, which is the most powerful in the region, is entering a phase of using "money sacks that don't know how to play football" and Mr. A. Polking is just one of those links. This person has an 8-year background of understanding Thai football, also has an insignificant coaching background in the V. League, and the fact that this person "makes noise even when doing nothing" is extremely understandable. Hopefully, Mr. Park Hang-seo, who is doing and saying nothing, will continue to have good fortune and luck with the Vietnamese National Team at this AFF Cup, in addition to the countless things he has done in the past 4 years, even against the noisy arch-rival Thailand...
