Many football clubs send scouts to the field to look for talent.

(Baonghean.vn) - The Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth Football Tournament has long been a place to find players for famous youth football centers across the country. Every year, dozens of young players are brought to youth training classes to become professional players. Every time the tournament is held, many "scouts" and scouts from training centers come here to look for "rough gems".

Among the thousands of spectators who came to watch the Leopard Cup, there was no shortage of "scouts" and recruiters from famous youth football training centers across the country who came here to look for "rough gems".

The Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth Football Tournament is the highest level amateur youth football tournament in Nghe An province. Every year, from this football tournament, Song Lam Nghe An Football Club selects the best young players, brings them to the youth teams to train professional players for the first team. It can be said that the Newspaper Cup is a "gold mine" of talent.

In recent years, this “gold mine” is no longer the “exclusive” of SLNA Football Club. Every time the tournament opens, a series of other famous youth training centers such as Viettel, Hanoi T&T, PVF... send scouts and recruiters to monitor and select new talents for their teams. Especially in the children's age group.

In fact, SLNA Football Club has been “snatched” and lost a series of young talents in recent years. After watching the tournament, the scouts of SLNA Football Club approached the families and players to invite them to practice at the academy, which was too late, when before that, other academy had approached first, convincing the families and players to let them join their academy.

U12 SLNA coach Nguyen Xuan Hieu comes to find "gold" in the youth age group.

In 2014, SLNA Football Club lost young talent Tran Dinh Hung (Yen Thanh Youth Football Club) to HAGL-ARSENAL JMG. In 2015, this pain continued when SLNA Football Club lost the top scorer (11 goals) of the Youth-People Football Tournament Cup Nghe An Newspaper Dong Phuc Thien (Vinh City Youth Football Club) to PVF (currently Thien is the captain of U12 of this club).

Determined not to miss out or lose young talents to other teams, this year, SLNA Football Club decided to open more gifted training classes in districts and cities with 17 classes/16 districts and cities; organize surveys, early detection and immediately invite young talents to train at the club right from the beginning of the year instead of waiting for the end of the Newspaper Cup. At the same time, request the Organizing Committee to allow players who signed contracts at the beginning of the year to still participate in the Newspaper Cup and send a strong team of scouts including Coach Nguyen Huy Hoang and Phan Nhu Thuat to follow the tournament, discover talents and immediately invite them.

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Nghia, Deputy Executive Director of SLNA Football Club, "triumphantly" reported "good news": There were a few scouts and recruiters from other clubs who followed the tournament, discovered good players, approached the families, and found out that SLNA had already signed contracts, so they all got discouraged and went back home...

The children's "front" is stable, the youth "front" is also taken care of by the SLNA Football Club. At the youth age, SLNA is very "picky" in recruiting, but every year there are still some excellent players called up to join the U13, such as in 2013 Cai Quang Huy (TN Thai Hoa) and in 2015 Le Khanh Toan (TN Nghi Loc). Right from the beginning of the tournament, U12 SLNA coach Nguyen Xuan Hieu was present to monitor and search for talent.

Mr. Nguyen Quang Lam, President of the Parents Association of Class U13 SLNA (sitting in the middle) always follows the tournament.

On the sidelines of the field, Mr. Nguyen Quang Lam (President of SLNA U13 Parents Association) was always seen closely following the matches. Remember, last year, Mr. Lam and the SLNA youth coaches went to Nam Dan town many times to persuade, persuade, and invite Dinh Van Tien (ND Nam Dan) - the best player, top scorer of the 2014 Youth Football Cup of Nghe An Newspaper to the training center. Before that, although he was called from the first round, Tien refused to go to the club because he missed and could not bear to be away from his mother. Currently, Dinh Van Tien is number 10, captain of SLNA U13.

Thanh Son - Thanh Cuong