Thailand team craves coach Park Hang-seo's signature; Quang Ninh club wins big against Hai Phong

Thailand team craves coach Park Hang-seo's signature?

VFF's contract with Mr. Park is valid until January 30, 2020, including a clause to negotiate a 3-month extension before it expires. This means that starting from October 2019, both sides will have to sit down at the negotiating table. After the great successes of the past time, most recently the runner-up position at the King's Cup 2019, Coach Park Hang-seo has not only become a "star" in Vietnam but also famous throughout Asia.

Yesterday, the Korean newspaper Star News commented that the VFF should speed up the process of renewing the contract with Coach Park to avoid being noticed by neighboring countries.

This newspaper cited a number of sources revealing that Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are all looking to approach Coach Park. Among them, arch-rival Thailand is probably the country most eager to have the signature of the Korean strategist. They are even willing to pay the 60-year-old coach a salary of 100,000 USD/month, 5 times what he is receiving in Vietnam.

LV Park Hang Seo is sought after by many teams and clubs after his resounding successes with Vietnamese teams. Photo: VSI

This is understandable because under the leadership of coach Park for nearly 2 years, the Thai team has lost its "king" position to the Vietnamese team.

Immediately after that, the Football Association of Thailand (FAT) parted ways with both coaches, Sirisak Yodyardthai of the Thai national team and Alexander Gama of the Thai U23 team, and is urgently looking for someone to take the hot seat.

Star News assessed that Thai football needs a leader like Coach Park.

Copa America: Qatar makes a strong impression

Qatar put in an impressive performance in their 2-2 draw with Paraguay at Copa America 2019.

With the core of the players who lost to U23 Vietnam in the semi-finals of the 2018 U23 Asian Cup, Qatar has made constant progress and then became the champion of the 2019 Asian Cup.

The new status helps Qatar be invited to participate in Copa America 2019, a tournament of much higher level than Asia.

The first challenge for Felix Sanchez and his team is the match against Paraguay, a team that is not easy to deal with.

Qatar players celebrate after scoring against Paraguay. (Photo: Getty).

Paraguay's experience was evident from the very first minutes. In the fourth minute, the South American team opened the scoring.

Ten minutes into the second half, Paraguay doubled the lead. It seemed that Qatar would collapse after the second goal, but on the contrary, the Asian champions played with more determination and effort, and then had an unexpectedly good game.

In the 68th minute, Qatar's number 1 star, Almoez Ali, fired a decisive shot from outside the penalty area, leaving goalkeeper Fernandez helpless.

Quang Ninh Club defeated Hai Phong on the day Mac Hong Quan was absent.

Without Mac Hong Quan, but with the excellence of the trio Nguyen Hai Huy, Nghiem Xuan Tu and Rod Dyachenko, Quang Ninh Club still easily defeated their opponent Hai Phong with a score of 4-2.

True to the nature of the Northeast derby, from the very first minutes, the match between Quang Ninh and Hai Phong clubs was fierce.

Quang Ninh Club had an explosive match day

In the 8th minute, Hai Huy opened the score but Rod Dyachenko was the brightest star with a hat-trick against goalkeeper Nguyen Van Toan.

In contrast to the home team's high performance, the away team's defense had a terrible day, and young goalkeeper Nguyen Van Toan was no exception.

In addition to having to pick the ball out of the net 4 times, under pressure from the attacking players of Quang Ninh, the goalkeeper born in 1999 also had two shaky handling situations that almost led to goals.

The Hai Phong strikers' late efforts only helped them score two goals by Pham Hoai Duong and Nguyen Viet Nguyen. The away team suffered a final defeat with a score of 2-4.