What can we see from the quartet of SLNA coaches during the restructuring period?
(Baonghean.vn) - The fact that Van Quyen "quickly" appeared in the SLNA coaching quartet during the restructuring period, in addition to professional reasons, must have had a reason from the media.
The leaders of Song Lam Nghe An Club have just decided to appoint new personnel for the first team coaching staff during the restructuring period, including head coach Huy Hoang and 3 assistants: Pham Bui Minh, Phan Nhu Thuat and Pham Van Quyen.
Thus, interim coach Huy Hoang and assistant Phan Nhu Thuat continue to be trusted by the team's new leadership and have added two new members to the first team from the U19 coaching staff, coach Pham Bui Minh and assistant Pham Van Quyen.
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Before becoming assistants of the first team, Nhu Thuat and Van Quyen were quite successful when leading the youth team. Photo: Archive |
The progress of Head Coach Huy Hoang, at first glance, seems to be a "lightning-fast appointment" but in fact, in the past, SLNA has not had a few cases where a key player was trained and assigned the task of captain, then matured from coaching youth teams, became assistant and head coach of the first team. We can mention Quang Hai, Huu Thang, Quang Truong and currently Huy Hoang. What is known is that among the above coaches, only Huu Thang has successfully completed his task in the first team with the 2011 National Championship and bravely accepted the task of head coach of the National Team and U23 Vietnam afterwards but was not successful.
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Huy Hoang has been SLNA captain for many years and has influence on the players. Photo: Archive |
Why did SLNA's Board of Directors boldly appoint Huy Hoang and his associates, who are famous as players, but not those with significant achievements in the technical area, from the youth teams as well as the first team?
No one can fully answer this question, only knowing that Huy Hoang and his colleagues were assigned the immediate task of helping the team stay in the league successfully and then, more importantly and must do it, is to regain the team's inherent glory.
It is known that, for now, Huy Hoang and his colleagues are being provided with material and spiritual conditions in a simple and practical way, "only with reality can we uphold the way", not to let "losing to the younger brother, being inferior to the older sister" become chronic as it has been for a long time. Along with that, the force is supplemented from foreign players to serve the goal of staying in the league and calling back the pillars who have been transferred to serve the big goal of finding the national championship that has been "evading" for more than 10 years...
Reality shows that Huy Hoang, the "big brother" of the team, is the one who is capable of replacing his senior Quang Truong in the technical area, not because of his experience in directing the game in the fierce battle in V. League, but because of his "power" over his juniors, something that Huu Thang had a lot of when he was in charge before. Once he has commanded the team, 11 people like 1 in the matches, the team's strength will double, triple, and multiply beyond measure.
Not to mention the role of assistant Bui Minh, who had experienced this "role" during Huu Thang's time, along with coach Pham Anh Tuan in Hai Phong, had "held" U19 in the National Finals, alongside former excellent players in all lines: Van Quyen - striker, Nhu Thuat - organizing midfielder... Not to mention the "tradition" of SLNA, every head coach is "under the command" of a series of famous "meritorious men"..., if these people have not "nodded", then don't talk about this and that?
Surely now and in the future, behind a team of young, enthusiastic potential, there will always be experienced, veteran people supporting. Surely Huy Hoang and his colleagues know that clearly to look ahead, look behind, avoid smiling, sneering now and then...
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Nhu Thuat and Van Quyen in the time U15 SLNA won the National Championship in 2019. Photo: Archive |
A top team in the hands of a powerful investor of course not only achieves good results on the field but also aims for other goals, and has other activities, in which the media plays an important role. The fact that Van Quyen "quickly" appeared in the SLNA coaching quartet during the restructuring period, in addition to professional reasons, must have had a reason from the media, which SLNA, with its extremely rich resources, has not been able to develop and has lost market share to others for a long time.
Of course, this is still a familiar quartet with the old but strong 4-4-2 style of operation and if they want to stay in power, they must definitely learn and work harder to keep up with their colleagues and avoid unnecessary failures for their team. If there is no change and progress in that process, no matter who it is, they will inevitably be eliminated. That is why this story is on the front page and time will answer the question "what do you see in the famous quartet" on the field, in the technical area or when "invited" to the stands?