Song Lam Nghe An: Will new investors create a new force?

Meanwhile, the only coach from another province who came to SLNA (?) was rarely mentioned because he only temporarily "took charge" of a couple of unsatisfactory matches and then quietly left to... "preserve his reputation"!

Therefore, during the team's development, the teachers and students were basically "homegrown". When they reached the top of V. League in 2001 (Coach Nguyen Thanh Vinh), 2011 (Coach Nguyen Huu Thang) as well as other favorable and difficult seasons, they were all associated with teachers who grew up at the club.

SLNA is a team with a consistent tradition. Photo: Duc Anh

The question now is whether the new investor will continue to use the "old book", that is, the team's on-site coach, or bring in a new factor to regain the old glory, or even create a new force to compete with other teams with strong soldiers and generals?

Reality shows that, under the hands of an investor - a boss with a lot of potential and ambition, anything can happen. With the quick retention of Van Duc with a "blockbuster" event, with the intention of not needing to hide the immediate intention of retaining the pillars, finding good foreign players, and in the long term "calling" back SLNA talents who had left during the "talent drain" period, of course, those who will sit in the technical area of ​​the team will also be carefully calculated for the relegation step as well as "acceleration" later.

Many people know that,SLNAFor a long time, Vietnam has owned many good coaches, mainly in youth football, such as Nguyen Van Thinh, Dinh Van Dung, Le Ky Phuong, etc. At a higher level, in the V. League, in addition to the coaches who have retired or moved on, such as Nguyen Thanh Vinh, Nguyen Huu Thang, Vu Quang Bao, Nguyen Thanh Cong, Pham Anh Tuan, etc., the remaining coaching team has not proven their skills when taking on tasks or objective conditions have not allowed them to reap the desired success.

SLNA still needs an economic boost to return to its rightful position in the professional arena. Photo: Thanh Cuong

It is also worth noting that recently, even in the solid success of youth training, public opinion has also talked about the weakness in the technical area when the young generations are gradually losing ground to other emerging furnaces? Or like the fact that there is a coach who is not afraid to say directly that playing against SLNA is very easy now because the team is used to operating according to an old "playbook". Those things must have been recorded in the new boss's profile and change, purification, and renewal seem to be inevitable, because the goal is to immediately revive the team that is at the bottom of the rankings!

But even if everything is carried out urgently and thoroughly, it does not mean that SLNA will quickly return to its old position. No coach dares to be sure that with Van Duc, Xuan Manh, Van Hoang in the squad, and now the old M. Olaha, then Ngoc Hai, Trong Hoang... and the "rice coming back" to flower and sprout... "no one wants to face SLNA" (borrowing the words of Chelsea coach Tuchel). If it were easy, this season, the teams of Mr. Hien, of Chairman Huu Thang... would not have had such a hard time? It is also not easy to discuss when coach Nguyen Thanh Cong went to many difficult places, but returned to HLHT and had "smooth sailing" unexpectedly.

That means that Huy Hoang - the eldest brother leading the juniors or someone else - still needs a lot of effort and a little luck, needs the fate of a player, a coach and a team. For example, the heart-stopping situation "the ball hit the crossbar" of SLNA in the decisive match SLNA - Hanoi T&T in 2011, where the home team had to endure a terrible defeat until the last minute of the explosion.