Tuan Anh leaves the mountain town football team and the story of 'water flows to low places'

This story seems new and surprising, but it has actually happened continuously for many past football seasons, not only with the football team associated with the famous Hoang Anh Gia Lai training center but also with other football teams from other training centers such as Song Lam Nghe An, Dong Thap...

The story of professional football "water flows to low places" inevitably happens and it seems that it is beneficial for the talents themselves and the whole football industry, much more than the sad story of "spending youth to stay in the league" that everyone has known for a long time.

Obviously, in the current conditions, good players who grow up from average, less ambitious teams are very difficult to have enough conditions to develop their talents. A series of young stars in Hoang Anh Gia Lai can promote their abilities and strengths well in U23 Vietnam or in the Vietnam National Team, but strangely they "disappear" and are miserable in the very team that trained them, because the training motto focuses on attack and forgets defense, because it focuses on beautiful football without considering efficiency, meaning it is only suitable for youth football, grassroots football rather than professional football.

Reality also shows that Hoang Anh Gia Lai players when coming to the new team have been promoting their abilities and strengths very well to immediately achieve achievements like Van Thanh and great prospects for Van Toan, Hong Duy (and Tuan Anh) when playing for the current Nam Dinh Blue Steel.

The problem of young players of Hoang Anh Gia Lai, it seems, is no different from the long-standing story of “talent drain” at the Song Lam Nghe An football team. Both training centers/teams want to keep their brightest stars, for example Tuan Anh, Minh Vuong, for example Trong Hoang or Hoang Van Khanh… but in the end, they all have to leave with all kinds of arguments and reasons that everyone knows: the poor team cannot meet the dedication of the players.

Furthermore, is it possible that the way Song Lam Nghe An invited Ngoc Hai and Trong Hoang back and then let them go to use a whole young team that still played well in the first leg of the V-League recently is a great suggestion for Mr. Duc to allow Tuan Anh to move, feeling secure with the current self-trained young team? And finally, the story of "water flows to the lowlands" when a series of star players from football teams gathered at Cong An Ha Noi, Thep Xanh Nam Dinh or Dinh Bac at Ha Noi FC... as a way to develop talent among countless talents is the most correct and necessary way to do it today.

At this point, many people can imagine the appearance of a professional football scene with top teams, capable of competing in regional and continental Cup tournaments, good teams that are places to hone young talents to wait for the opportunity to move to a higher-class team, and weak teams that are "living grounds" for players past their prime, reserve players...

In the world, there are top teams associated with famous training centers, but there are also many average teams that train many good players. The Netherlands is the birthplace of many world-class players, but now the reputation of the top clubs has almost become a thing of the past. In England, the training centers of Everton and West Ham United are very famous, but the teams do not reach the required level.

In our country, the cases of Song Lam Nghe An and Hoang Anh Gia Lai are quite typical for the above statement. The only difference is that when training one or more stars, people often know how to bring huge profits to the training center, the team and the player when transferring, such as the case of Everton "selling" Rooney to Manchester, Stone to Man City, or Aston Villa selling Greralish to Man City... Meanwhile, in Vietnam, most of the transfers and player sales are still secret, very little is known specifically, and the loss is certainly to the training center which has been subsidized for a long time as a "common father" matter...

In short, the story of Tuan Anh leaving Hoang Anh Gia Lai, no matter what anyone says, is the normal movement of a professional player in the football industry gradually moving towards professionalism. I hope for a happy ending for this most talented but unlucky midfielder. I also hope that Vietnamese football will gradually move into a professional framework with strong, visionary investors who know how to promote all talents for a football industry that develops properly, in the right direction, absolutely avoiding the "ready-made" situation, "live for a while", "come back when happy, leave when sad"...

And of course, after all that has been, has been seen, never be surprised that a young talent, a good player is sought after, invited and called to strong, ambitious teams. That is the inevitable path of all football development paths, like the path Tuan Anh took from Hoang Anh Gia Lai ranked 3rd in the first leg to the Blue Steel Nam Dinh ranked 1st in the first leg of the V-League./.