U19 football team to compete in 2014 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy
The U19 national football team
arrived Brunei on August 7 to compete in the 2014 Hassanal Bolkiah
Trophy, aiming to finish in the top four.
French head coach
Guillaume Graechen told the Vietnam Football Federation before leaving
that the team were ready for the event following several months of
preparations.
Graechen has added some new faces to his 22-member squad to compete at the fifth edition of the invitational tournament.
According
to Graechen, the tournament would serve as a warm up for the upcoming
ASEAN Football Federation U19 Youth Championship in Vietnam and the AFC
U19 Championship in Myanmar, so he wanted to experiment with different
players to finalise his final squad.
The Brunei event has attracted 11 teams under the age of 22 divided into two groups, and will kick off on August 8.
Vietnam
are in Group B alongside Cambodia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and
Indonesia. Group A consists of East Timor, Laos, the Philippines,
Myanmar and Thailand.
Vietnam will play their first game against Singapore on August 9.-VNA