Coach Park Hang Seo watches HAGL's troops, ignores U23 Asia draw

Tomorrow afternoon (October 25), the new captain of the Vietnamese national team, Park Hang Seo, will arrive in Vietnam and head straight to Pleiku to watch Mr. Duc's troops. The Korean coach receives the results of the draw for the U23 Vietnam team at the 2019 AFC U23 Championship in Korea.

Instead of returning to Vietnam on October 23, Coach Park Hang Seo postponed his arrival in Vietnam for 2 days to start work. Coach Park Hang Seo's flight will land at Tan Son Nhat Airport (HCMC) instead of Noi Bai (Hanoi). As soon as he arrived in HCMC, Mr. Park went straight to Pleiku to watch the HAGL vs. Hanoi match in round 23 of the V-League on October 27.

Coach Park Hang Seo returns to Vietnam to recruit players for the Vietnamese national team. Photo: SN

This will be the first match where the Korean coach will see Mr. Duc's talented players compete in the V-League. Surely, the upcoming training camp will see many HAGL players, and coach Park Hang Seo wants to personally grade the players.

Especially in this match, midfielder Tuan Anh is likely to return after a long injury. Besides, striker Cong Phuong's ankle injury has also recovered very quickly and may also be able to play to meet the Korean coach.

Cong Phuong and his teammates are determined to score points with coach Park Hang Seo.

Besides, at Hanoi Club, many players such as Van Quyet, Van Hau, Duy Manh... also need to have their form checked before being called back to the national team to play Afghanistan on November 14.

While "packing" to go to Vietnam to work, Coach Park Hang Seo comfortably received the results of the draw for the AFC U23 Championship group stage of Vietnam U23. Instead of going to China to attend the draw, Mr. Park waited for the results of the group stage in Korea.

AFC has now divided the seed groups for next year's finals, based on the results of the teams at the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship in Qatar. Vietnam U-23 is in group 4 with Malaysia, Palestine and Oman. This is the group for teams that have not achieved good results as coach Miura's team has lost all 3 matches against Jordan, UAE and Australia.

Pot 3 includes Uzbekistan, Thailand, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Pot 2 includes Qatar, Jordan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Australia. Pot 1 includes host China, defending champions Japan, runners-up South Korea and Iraq.

AFC did not give specific rules on the drawing principles but only said in general that the final round will have 4 groups, each group consists of 4 teams from 4 groups. Therefore, it is not excluded that U23 Vietnam will meet U23 Thailand or strong teams like Korea, Japan, Jordan in the group stage.

According to VNN