Giải vô địch nữ Đông Nam Á 2019

On the afternoon of August 15, in Chonburi, Thailand, where the U.15 Southeast Asia Championship just took place, the AFF Cup of Women 2019 will officially start.

Entering the Vietnam women's tournament has 2 great excitement. One is that FIFA has just decided to increase the number of teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup finals from 24 to 32, which means Asia will have at least 6 seats instead of 5. Synonymous, the opportunity to recruit Vietnamese women to participate in the largest playground. The planet is very big when ranked 35th in the world and 6th in Asia. Secondly, the VFF Women's Football Division has a new Head of Board who is a really passionate and generous businessman: Mr. Pham Thanh Hung, President of Than QN Club (on the day of the debut, the first meeting with teachers and coaches Mai Duc Chung, Mr. Hung, gave his pocket money immediately 300 million).

In the Southeast Asian Women's Championship 2019, Vietnam is in Group B, with Cambodia (16-8), Indonesia (18-8) and Myanmar (20-8) respectively. This year, Australia did not participate, so the competition is mainly between Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam. Last year, teachers and coach Mai Duc Chung did not have the opportunity to meet the Thai champions, also won both matches against Myanmar (4-3 group stages and 3-0 third-class matches).

In order to prepare for the tournament and especially towards the goal of protecting the gold medal of the 30th Games, thereby surpassing the Thai women with 6 championships, the Vietnamese women's team continues to be strongly rejuvenated and has 1.5 months half focused on a 12-day training tour in Japan (played 3 matches, drew 1 lost 2). Taking over the captain's armband Kieu Trinh is striker Huynh Nhu.

The home field is not really the advantage of the Thai women's team because of the recent matches, not many spectators come to the field to cheer for the home team. For example, Thailand won Myanmar 3-1 in the semi-finals, only 200 fans were on the field according to the statistics of the Southeast Asian Football Federation (AFF).

However, in terms of expertise, Thailand team proved to be superior to Vietnam at this time with a team of players being rubbed internationally continuously. That said, only in 2019, Thai female players played with nine teams: Hungary, Mexico, Italy, Nigeria, France, Belgium, USA, Sweden and Chile in both friendly and competitive matches. play in the women's World Cup 2019 in France.

Although only won a 4-0 victory over Hungary and lost to 8 matches, Thai women's football has gained quite a lot of expertise.

After the 2019 women's World Cup finals in France, Ms. Nuengrutai Srathongvian resigned and coach Naruphon Kaenson - assistant of the U21 team of Thailand - was appointed to replace her. Right after taking the team, coach Naruphon Kaenson has called quite a few new recruits. However, veterans who have participated in the 2015 and 2019 Women's World Cup finals are still the main core of the team's play.

Accordingly, Thai captain Srangthaisong Susina (31 years old) is a reliable barrier in the defense, midfielder Intamee Silawan (25 years old) plays creatively in the middle. Strikers Sornsai Pitsamai (32 years old), Thongsombut Ratikan (28 years old), Sung-Ngoen Kanjana (33 years old) also regularly score goals when they are put on the pitch in recent matches.

Both Thailand and Vietnam have all won in the journey to the final. But Thailand's victories are more convincing. Especially the 4-2 victory over Philippines in the group stage. Meanwhile, coach and coach Mai Duc Chung must struggle to overcome the Philippines 2-1 in the semi-finals.

Because of this, the Vietnamese women's team proved very focused before the match with Thailand. Head of the delegation, Duong Vu Lam, said that in the afternoon of August 26 and 27, the team will review the video to carefully analyze the opponent as well as find the appropriate match.

"Thailand has many experienced players. They also have a Thai overseas player (USA) who plays quite well. Thailand is relatively diverse, is the host, so Vietnam must calculate and come out. pitch with confidence to win positive results "- Mr. Lam shared.

For his part, coach Mai Duc Chung said that the students need to immediately correct mistakes in the training session for the match in the afternoon of August 26. He said: "The Vietnamese women's team did not play well in the first time in the semi-final against the Philippines. Therefore, we need to improve if we want to win good results before recruiting Thailand."