Coach Mai Duc Chung and interesting highlights of the match between Vietnam women's team and Portugal women's team
The battle of wits between coach Mai Duc Chung and coach Francisco Neto will be a highlight worth looking forward to in the match between the Vietnamese women's team and the Portuguese women's team at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
In the context of the defending champion USA and the defending runner-up Netherlands having superior class in Group E, the match between the Vietnamese women's team and the Portuguese women's team is the clearest opportunity for the two teams to make a special mark at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
Coach Mai Duc Chung hinted that the Vietnamese women's team will play differently from the 0-3 loss to the US women's team when they face the Portuguese women's team at 2:30 p.m. on July 27.
“Depending on each opponent, we will have appropriate tactical calculations for the upcoming matches” – Coach Mai Duc Chung shared after the opening day of the 2023 Women's World Cup.
Meanwhile, coach Francisco Neto announced that the Portuguese women's team needs to beat the Vietnamese women's team to hope to cause a surprise in Group E.
"We will take the field against the Vietnamese women's team with the mentality of having to win. However, this is not an easy match at all" - Coach Francisco Neto said after losing 0-1 to the Dutch women's team.
The battle of wits between coach Mai Duc Chung and coach Francisco Neto promises to be very tense, as both teams are determined to make a difference in the match at Hamilton Stadium.
Notably, Coach Mai Duc Chung and Coach Francisco Neto are both coaches with special statistics at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
If coach Mai Duc Chung is the oldest coach at the 2023 Women's World Cup, coach Francisco Neto is the one who has led the team the longest.
Specifically, coach Francisco Neto has been leading the Portuguese women's team for 9 years and sat in the "hot seat" when he was only 32 years old. The strategist born in 1980 did not play professionally, but pursued coaching when he was only 20 years old.
Meanwhile, coach Mai Duc Chung has set a FIFA record for the oldest coach to lead a team at the World Cup (both male and female). At the age of 73, coach Mai Duc Chung has surpassed the old record of coach Otto Rehhagel - who led the Greek team at the 2010 World Cup.
Besides the statistics, Coach Mai Duc Chung and Coach Francisco Neto are both people who have made special contributions to the development of women's football in Vietnam and Portugal, and helped their teams participate in the World Cup for the first time.
