Coach Mai Duc Chung leads the Vietnamese national team.
The strategist who recently led the Vietnamese women's team to a gold medal at the 29th SEA Games will serve as interim coach for the men's team in the Asian Cup qualifiers.
The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has just announced its decision on the head coach for the Vietnamese national team.
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Coach Mai Duc Chung has led the Vietnamese women's national team to three SEA Games gold medals. Photo: Duc Dong |
In their final group stage match, Vietnam U22 lost to Thailand.0-3The team was eliminated early from the SEA Games 29. Having failed to meet their targets, coach Huu Thang decided to resign immediately after the match.
During a meeting this morning, August 27th, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) requested that Coach Huu Thang change his decision. The coach, born in 1971, appreciated the Federation's sincerity but was determined to leave.
The VFF must immediately make a decision on who will replace Huu Thang becauseSeptember 5thThe Vietnamese national team will play away against Cambodia in the Asian Cup qualifiers. The chosen coach is...TomorrowDuc Chung. The former player of the Railway Club recently made his mark by helping the Vietnamese women's national team surpass Thailand to win the gold medal at the 29th SEA Games.
Coach Mai Duc Chung will convene the national team on August 29th in Hanoi. The team will have approximately three days of training before departing for Cambodia to compete.
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Coach Mai Duc Chung recently led the Vietnamese women's national team to victory at the 29th SEA Games. Photo: Duc Dong |
This is the second time coach Mai Duc Chung has served as interim coach. At the 24th SEA Games, he coached the U23 team in the third-place match, after the VFF (Vietnam Football Federation) dismissed coach Alfred Riedl immediately following their loss to Myanmar in the semi-finals. However, due to severely low player morale, the team lost 0-5 to Singapore. Prior to that, during the period when coach Riedl underwent a kidney transplant, coach Mai Duc Chung coached the Olympic team and achieved victories against Lebanon and Oman in the qualifying rounds for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Coach Mai Duc Chung's greatest achievement at the national team level was winning the Merdeka Cup friendly tournament in 2008 in Malaysia, when he led the Vietnam U22 team.
The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) stated that there is currently no official plan for the head coach of the Vietnamese national team. Besides Coach Mai Duc Chung, two other candidates have emerged to replace Coach Huu Thang: Technical Director Jurgen Gede and Coach Hoang Anh Tuan, who led the Vietnam U20 team to qualify for the FIFA U20 World Cup in South Korea.
According to VNE
