U19 Vietnam has European experts; Suffering from temporary memory loss, Vietnam national team goalkeeper reassures fans
(Baonghean.vn) - Phil Foden won the title of Best Player of the Premier League 2023 - 2024; U19 Vietnam has a European expert; Suffering from temporary memory loss, the Vietnamese national team goalkeeper reassures fans... are notable sports news in the past 24 hours.
Phil Foden won the Premier League Player of the Year 2023 - 2024
The Premier League has awarded the 2023-2024 Player of the Season award to Phil Foden of Man City Club.
Winger Phil Foden beat Erling Haaland, Martin Odegaard, Declan Rice, Cole Palmer, Alexander Isak, Ollie Watkins and Virgil van Dijk to win the Premier League Player of the Year award for the first time. The Englishman deserved the award after his impressive performances for Man City in the Premier League this season. Foden has scored 17 goals and provided 8 assists in 34 appearances in the Premier League. The 2000-born player is the Citizens' second-highest scorer this season, behind only Erling Haaland.
The young Man City star is the first English player to win the award since Jamie Vardy in 2015-16, and is also the seventh on a list that includes Alan Shearer, Michael Owen, Kevin Philips, Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney.
Indonesia wants to naturalize Dutch defender worth 500 billion VND
After successfully naturalizing 13 players of European and American origin in the past 4 years, PSSI continues to approach and convince more candidates to play for the Indonesian national team.
The most interested candidates are Dutch players, those of Indonesian origin and blood. However, not all candidates are interested, especially young talents, because they still hope to play for the Dutch national team in the future.
Recently, coach Ronald Koeman called up 30 players to join the Dutch national team to prepare for EURO 2024. According to Okezone, this is the right time for PSSI to speed up negotiations with candidates not on the list coach Ronald Koeman just announced.
The Indonesian newspaper named 6 names, the most notable of which is defender Pascal Augustus Struijk, who is playing for Leeds United (English First Division), scored 5 goals in the 2023/24 season, and is valued at 18 million euros (nearly 500 billion VND).
Struijk was born in Belgium in 1999, to Indonesian grandparents. He is left-footed and plays mainly as a centre-back, but can also play as a defensive midfielder and left-back. Having played for the Netherlands U17s, Struijk has been compared to Dutch international Virgil van Dijk thanks to his impressive physical play and good ball control.
Suffering from temporary memory loss, Vietnam national team goalkeeper reassures fans
Goalkeeper Nguyen Dinh Trieu was injured in the match of round 19 of V.League 2023/2024 between Binh Dinh Club and Hai Phong. The away team's goalkeeper collided strongly with the opponent's striker and was injured in the first round, leading to temporary memory loss.
Dinh Trieu then continued to play. However, in the second half, coach Chu Dinh Nghiem was forced to take the number one goalkeeper of Hai Phong Club out to rest.
"I only had a slight collision and temporarily lost my memory, but I was still in control of my actions. After that, I was a bit stressed, which led to cramps. The medical team and doctors took good care of me and examined me, so I recovered soon after," Dinh Trieu updated his health status through his personal social media account.
The goalkeeper, who was once called up to the Vietnam national team under coach Philippe Troussier, joked with fans that anyone who didn't believe could go out onto the field and race with him.
U19 Vietnam has European experts
Assisting coach Hua Hien Vinh are 5 assistants, including former Vietnam national team center back Le Phuoc Tu as deputy coach, professional assistant Trinh Quang Vinh and data analyst Le Minh Dung,...
In addition, the assistant team also includes fitness coach Cedric Roger. The French expert signed a long-term contract with VFF and has been in charge of many men's teams, from the national team to the U-teams.
Currently, the list of U19 Vietnam players this time still does not have all the best faces of the U19 age group, because some players are still busy playing for their home clubs in domestic tournaments.
According to the schedule, U19 Vietnam will meet host U19 China in the opening match on June 4. Next, they will meet U19 Korea on June 7 and U19 Uzbekistan on June 10.
With the participation of U19 China, U19 Uzbekistan and U19 Korea, the Four-Nation Tournament in China is considered a quality "test" for the Vietnam U19 team before participating in the 2024 Southeast Asian U19 tournament and the 2025 Asian U20 Qualifiers./.
