Coach Park Hang-seo wants Vietnam team to enter the quarter-finals of Asian Cup 2019
The Korean strategist is in the UAE to attend the draw for the final round of the Asian Championship taking place at 10:30 p.m. (Hanoi time) today, May 4.
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Coach Park Hang-seo has continuously scored achievements when helping the Vietnamese team reach the final round of the 2019 Asian Cup and the U23 Vietnam team win the silver medal at the U23 Asian Championship. |
“VFF hopes that the Vietnamese team can advance to the quarterfinals, and coach Park Hang-seo also shares the same opinion. Of course, everything is not easy when the Asian Cup finals are attended by all the top teams in the continent,” VFF General Secretary Le Hoai Anh shared withVnExpress.
Coach Park Hang-seo said he is feeling more pressure after signing a new contract with VFF. The reason is because reaching the final of the U23 Asia Cup has made fans and experts place more expectations on him.
Vietnam reached the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup in 2007. That year, coach Alfred Riedl and his team defeated the UAE 2-0, drew 1-1 with Qatar and lost 1-4 to Japan, finishing second in Group B. In the quarter-finals, the team lost 0-2 to Iraq.
Vietnam reached the final round of the 2019 Asian Cup with an unbeaten record in the final qualifying round, in a group with Jordan, Afghanistan and Cambodia.
The draw for the final round of the tournament will take place at 10:30 p.m. today in the UAE. Vietnam will be represented by Head of Delegation Duong Vu Lam and Coach Park Hang-seo.
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Four seeded groups at the draw for the 2019 Asian Cup finals. |
Based on the FIFA scoreboard of April 2018, the Organizing Committee has divided the seed groups for 24 teams. Vietnam is in the third seed group with Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine and India. Two other representatives of Southeast Asia, Thailand and the Philippines, are in the second and fourth seed groups.
The 24 teams will be divided into six groups, with each group playing a round-robin to determine their ranking. The group winners and runners-up and the four best third-placed teams will advance to the round of 16 in a knockout format.
The 2019 Asian Cup finals will take place from January 5 to February 1, 2019 at eight stadiums in four major cities of the UAE: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Al Ain and Sharjah.
