Will coach Huu Thang lead HAGL?

(Baonghean.vn) - If round 21 SLNA wins HAGL at Pleiku stadium, it will most likely be the last match coach Quoc Tuan sits in the head coach chair of the Mountain City team. The most important person to sit in that hot seat is none other than Huu Thang.

There is a rather strange thing, the coaching career of Coach Quoc Tuan is very much related to the Nghe An team. V.League 2015, after 21 rounds, HAGL won 3, drew 3, lost 13, ranked last on the rankings and forced Mr. Duc to replace Coach Graechen.

Coach Quoc Tuan's first match was against SLNA in Pleiku, HAGL surprisingly came back to win 3-1. It was a rather "strange" match when Que Ngoc Hai scored the first goal from the penalty spot, the Nghe players were not happy. When Cong Phuong equalized 1-1 from the 11m mark, after a foul by Dinh Dong in the penalty area, the away team was not sad either.

But more importantly, HAGL got 3 points, opening the most spectacular escape in V-League history, making Dong Nai coach Tran Binh Su bitter every time he recalls it.

Shaky coach seat

With a 2-point gap over XSKT.Can Tho, the team is currently ranked 13th on the rankings (must play play-off) but will have to face tough opponents in the next round such as Quang Nam, Hanoi, Hai Phong, SHB.Da Nang, HAGL is really facing a big challenge.

Coach Quoc Tuan's seat is shaky after 3 consecutive losses. Photo: Internet

But first of all, the loss of 3 consecutive matches, including the loss to Long An, the team at the bottom of the rankings, at home, and the consecutive red cards of Dang Tuan, Vinh Loi, and Motta made people feel that coach Quoc Tuan had lost control.

Many years of experience as a player or learning from coach Miura himself did not help much for this coach who was quite dedicated to his profession. The pride of HAGL audiences was hurt, and Mr. Duc’s declarations of “clean and beautiful football” were thrown away by the “children of the Mountain City”.

Fans' endurance has its limits. People say that not only are the audiences coming to Pleiku Stadium getting fewer and fewer, but if there were no push, 4/6 of the last matches of the season that VTV6 broadcast live with HAGL would not have had any viewers.

Not all failures are due to coach Quoc Tuan, there are things that come from the football philosophy of the team, there are objective reasons that come from the lack of personnel and also the "SEA Games virus". But the important thing is that after 3 years of playing football in the "go with the flow" style of the coach, the audience is starting to get tired of the dish called HAGL.

When the team cannot be replaced, the immediate thing to do is to replace the driver!

Knowledgeable person met?

If you ask who Mr. Duc wants to invite to coach HAGL the most, that person is none other than Huu Thang. In the past, Mr. Duc personally invited Huu Thang to Pleiku at least 3 times, but it seems they still have not had the chance to meet.

In the eyes of Mr. Duc, Huu Thang is the best domestic coach at the present time. Photo: Internet

Not only at the club level, with his influence, Mr. Duc did everything to make coach Miura leave and recommended Huu Thang to replace him. The lack of luck made the two men with strong personalities not have a happy ending, making everyone feel uneasy.

At present, if you ask Huu Thang which players he wants to choose as his students, it must be "the children of Mr. Duc". The man from Nghe An wants everyone to know that the failure at SEA Games 29 was simply an accident, relying on the HAGL players, he has built a soulful style of play for the Vietnamese team. More than anyone, Huu Thang understands that the difficulties and decline in performance of Van Toan, Cong Phuong, Van Thanh... are only temporary.

This former national team captain also knows that if he takes the hot seat at this time, he will receive the full support of Mr. Duc to immediately change the face of the team. More than anyone else, with Mr. Duc's style, the success of the campaign to "rescue Pho Nui" and the dream of becoming a football manager for Huu Thang will open up greater opportunities than ever.

The two men are separated by 1 victory of SLNA in Pleiku, even if there was “fate” they would have come together sooner. If that happens, the Nghe An audience will regret because after Vu Quang Bao, Van Sy Son, Cong Vinh has another son of his hometown going to make a living in a foreign land.

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