Goalkeeper Nguyen Van Hoang and the two times coach Park called him up in extra time

The turning point on the 7th call

In November 2017, Nguyen Van Hoang was one of the goalkeepers who joined U23 Vietnam to participate in the 2018 AFC U23 Championship. That was also a famous tournament that marked a historic milestone for Vietnamese football under the leadership of Nguyen Van Hoang.Coach Park Hang-seo. Van Hoang is of course also a brick contributing to that victory.

But it must be admitted that Van Hoang was not the first priority choice in the initial selection of U23 Vietnam at that time. In the list of goalkeepers, in addition to Bui Tien Dung, Phi Minh Long, Dang Ngoc Tuan, the U23 Vietnam coaching board considered Do Sy Huy - the goalkeeper who was called up in the previous SEA Games campaign.

Van Hoang is one of the most stable goalkeepers in V-League. Photo: Ba Tuan

But a strange thing happened. That was when the coaching staff could not contact Sy Huy at that time. Coach Pham Minh Duc of Hanoi U21 also could not call to inform Sy Huy. The coaching staff of Vietnam U23 team switched to plan B, which was goalkeeper Nguyen Van Hoang of Saigon FC, who also grew up at Hanoi's youth training center.

While packing, Coach Park held me back because of Van Lam.

The second time Van Hoang was selected in extra time was during this training session. In fact, Van Hoang was one of the ten players that Mr. Park initially crossed out. That was not a surprise. Because he only had exactly 1 week to train with the Vietnamese team, due to having to quarantine with Song Lam Nghe An for Covid-19 due to being involved in an F1 case, Van Hoang did not have enough time to prove his ability.

Van Hoang was indeed packing his things to prepare to leave.Vietnam team. But right when he was packing his luggage to leave the hotel in Hanoi, Coach Park Hang-seo immediately informed him that he would stay with the team. The reason was because Cerezo Osaka had retained Dang Van Lam, because a goalkeeper of the J.League 1 team was injured at this time. Van Hoang became the "survival ticket" of the Vietnamese team to attend the UAE.World Cup 2022 QualifiersAsia region

Van Hoang will continue to accompany the Vietnam National Team in the World Cup qualifying campaign. Photo: VFF

Today, May 27, Van Hoang and his teammates arrived in the UAE. Four days later, the Vietnamese team will have a friendly match with Jordan.

According to the schedule, the red team will face Indonesia on June 7, Malaysia on June 11 and UAE on June 15 in Group G of the second qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup.

Coach Park and his team need to win 6 more points to ensure a ticket to the final qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup./.