Coach Mai Duc Chung returns to lead the Vietnamese women's football team, preparing for the 33rd SEA Games
(Baonghean.vn) - After nearly half a year of leaving the Vietnamese women's team, coach Mai Duc Chung decided to return with a contract lasting until the end of 2025 to prepare for the 33rd SEA Games in Thailand.
On May 9, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and Mr. Mai Duc Chung reached a consensus and agreed to sign a contract to become the head coach of the Vietnam Women's Football Team in a contract with a term from May 9, 2024 to December 31, 2025.
After the 32nd SEA Games in 2023 with the 4th consecutive achievement of winning the Gold Medal with the Vietnam Women's Football Team, coach Mai Duc Chung decided to temporarily stop this job to spend time with his family. After a period of rest and recovery, coach Mai Duc Chung decided to return to women's football.
During his time as Head Coach of the Vietnam Women's Football Team, Mr. Mai Duc Chung and his students won 6/8 SEA Games Gold Medals and especially brought the women's team to the 2023 World Cup Finals.
Despite difficult circumstances such as when the team competed in the Asian women's finals, the team was almost completely destroyed by Covid-19, but the teachers and students made great efforts to win tickets to the 2023 World Cup finals. The achievements that coach Mai Duc Chung has achieved with Vietnamese football in general and women's football in particular are very impressive.
Sharing his thoughts on returning to lead the Vietnam Women's National Team, coach Mai Duc Chung thanked the attention, encouragement, and especially the trust of the VFF Standing Committee and the National Coaching Council in him.
Regarding the upcoming activities of the Vietnam Women's Team, coach Mai Duc Chung said: "This year, the team will not participate in any international tournaments. However, the team will still have a training session abroad in July or August, after which the players will return to compete in domestic tournaments, as well as the Ho Chi Minh City team will participate in the Asian Women's C1 tournament. This is a premise for us to have good preparation for important goals that will take place in 2025, including the Southeast Asian Championship, SEA Games 25, Asian Cup Women's Qualifiers... The coaching staff and I will focus the most to complete the task well"./.
