Coach Park Hang-seo calls up two SLNA players to U22 Vietnam

The Vietnam U22 team is expected to gather again on August 10 in Hanoi with 30 players selected by coach Park Hang-seo. This is also an important training session in the preparation phase for the 2022 AFC U23 Championship Qualifiers, so most of the players on the list are considered to have good integration and are suitable for the playing style that coach Park Hang-seo and his colleagues have built for the Vietnam U22 team, as demonstrated through the 2020 training sessions as well as the most recent training session last May. The only new player on the list of 30 players summoned this time is Pham Manh Cuong, known as the best goalkeeper of the 2020 Thanh Nien Newspaper National U21 Championship.

The Vietnam U22 team will gather again on August 10, 2021 to prepare for the 2022 AFC U23 Championship Qualifiers. Photo: Hai Hoang

Because the time of the U22 Vietnam team's gathering coincides with the time the Vietnam team is preparing for the final FIFA QualifiersWorld Cup 2022Asia, so like previous training sessions, Head Coach Park Hang-seo will assign tasks to the Assistant Coaches in the coaching staff to ensure good training for both teams. Assistant Lee Young-jin and the Vietnamese assistant coaches will support Coach Park Hang-seo at the Vietnam National Team, while Assistant Kim Han-yoon will continue to be responsible for implementing the training program at the Vietnam U22 Team.

Player Nguyen Van Viet of SLNA.

Player Mai Sy Hoang. Photo: Hai Hoang

Currently, the Vietnam Football Federation is carrying out the necessary procedures to help the two teams gather as planned, while at the same time developing plans to prevent and combat the Covid-19 epidemic to ensure that the two teams can gather and train with the best results.

The 2022 AFC U23 Championship qualifiers will take place from October 23 to October 31, 2021, with 11 groups. The teams will compete in a round-robin format to determine rankings in each group. The 11 first-placed teams and the four best second-placed teams will qualify for the finals, which will be held in Uzbekistan from June 1 to June 19, 2022.

According to the draw results, Vietnam national team is in group I with Myanmar, Hong Kong (China) and Chinese Taipei.

List of Vietnam U22 team. Photo: Vietnamnet