When Southeast Asian football is in the hands of Korean coach?

There are two contrasting stories unfolding before everyone's eyes with interesting surprise: teachers from Japan to Thailand (Nishino), to Singapore (Yoshida) could not achieve success and accepted "falling from the stage", while teachers from Japan, Thailand (Nishino), Singapore (Yoshida) failed to achieve success and accepted "falling from the stage", while teachers from Japan, Thailand (Nishino), Singapore (Yoshida) failed to achieve success and accepted "falling from the stage", while teachers from Japan, Thailand, ...Korean teacher comes to Vietnam(Park Hang-seo), to Indonesia (Shin Tae-yong) and here there may be a Korean coach coming to Singapore, continuously succeeding beyond expectations?

Coach Park Hang-seo.

So, is it true that the advanced Japanese football industry produces many good players but good teachers is a matter that only time can answer? And it has become convincing to the lowland football industry, Korean football always has good teachers, to create many good players and needs to be "exported" to develop and raise the level of weaker football industries, of course that is the Southeast Asian region!

Perhaps, Vietnamese football once invited Japanese coach (T. Miura) and was not successful as the "theory" mentioned above, but was resoundingly successful when inviting Korean coach (Park Hang-seo). This is a lesson, a realistic suggestion for the "movement" of inviting Korean coaches to lead the national team and U23 team to take place in Indonesia and possibly continue in Singapore as public opinion is speculating.

What Mr. Park Hang-seo has done to make Vietnamese football rise to the top of the region in the past 4 years is something that cannot be ignored with great pride, inspiring many different aspects of life. From the white snow of Changzhou at the 2018 AFC U23 Championship, to the 2018 AFF Cup, the 2019 SEA Games, the 2022 World Cup qualifiers... Vietnamese football has made opponents in the region and the continent go from one surprise to another, making the World Cup dream of Vietnamese football closer and clearer than ever.

For Indonesian football, what just happened at the recent AFF Cup 2021 shows that the choice of coach Han is on the right track and necessary. In the context of having to continuously suffer the loss of many foreign coaches, Indonesian football is full of potential but constantly comes in second and has little hope of reaching the level that Thai or Vietnamese football has achieved. Mr. Shin Tae-yong came to Indonesia with the mission of ending that decline and starting over. Not long after that, everyone saw Indonesian football transform and compete with great success with a young and ambitious squad and only keeping a few older pillars in the squad.

Coach Shin Tae-yong.

There were two decisive actions of Mr. Shin Tae-yong that caught the attention and admiration of fans: handing over the captaincy of the Indonesian national team to a 22-year-old player (Asnawi) and leaving the famous pillar, the hero of Indonesian football in the past on the bench (Dumas). The Korean coach gradually transformed the Indonesian national team from playing rough and violently (like in the match against the Vietnamese national team) to a team full of courage and will, not accepting defeat, never giving up or giving in (like in the second leg of the semi-final against the Singapore national team, the second leg of the final against the Thai national team).

He resolutely fought against any offensive actions of the players and determined to put everything on the most correct and civilized path of life and sports. That was when he warned captain Asnawi about his behavior of mocking the opposing player who missed the decisive penalty kick in the last minute of the second leg of the semi-final against Singapore. That the level of warning given was that Asnawi would be expelled from the Indonesian team if similar offensive actions were repeated!

The success story of Korean coaches is worth praising and learning from. But that does not mean that everything is perfect and complete. After 4 years of success with Vietnamese football, Mr. Park Hang-seo has had to start over and start over with the Vietnam National Team. Mr. Shin Tae-yong immediately achieved sweet results with the young team but is still only second place like many previous coaches, although in the upcoming SEA Games, this young team will bring much hope to Indonesian football at the U23 level. Obviously, no one is allowed to stop and be satisfied, whether they are number 1 or number 2 in the region, even though the Korean coach always shows that he is "more skillful" than the Japanese coach.

Certainly, regional football in the coming time will be more worth watching, more worth talking about when there are always fierce competitions between Korean coaches and regional talents trying to escape the lowlands where the methods and results of Thailand or Vietnam are always hot lessons, goals that many opponents always hope to overcome as soon as possible.,.