U23 Vietnam win international praise

The U23 team have written a new page in the history of Vietnamese football after winning a ticket to the quarterfinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship in China on January 17.
U23 Vietnam win international praise ảnh 1Football players from U23 Vietnam and U23 Syria (Photo VNA)

Hanoi (VNA)
– The U23 team havewritten a new page in the history of Vietnamese football after winning a ticketto the quarterfinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championshipin China on January 17.

The accomplishment has received a lot ofcompliments from the international media.

The organiser AFC posted a story on its homepage titled “Draw takes Vietnam into quarter-finals”.

[Vietnam draw Syria, entering AFC U23 Championship quarterfinals]

It quoted the team head coach Park Hang-seo assaying "I want to thank my players, they played as a team today with anexcellent spirit. We wanted to win (the match), but my players were physicallytired, so our performance dropped a little. I made substitutions at the righttime to fix this issue.”

Meanwhile, the Fox Sports Asia carried anarticle under the title “AFC U-23 Championship: Brave Vietnam reachquarter-finals” by journalist Gabriel Tan who wrote that a resolute display byVietnam has seen them qualify for the knockout round of the 2018 AFC U-23Championship with a 0-0 draw against Syria on January 17.

“Despite coming up against tremendous pressurefrom the Syrians at the Changshu Stadium, a heroic defensive showing by Vietnamwas enough to earn a point,” it wrote.

Thailand’s Siam Sportsdescribed the achievement of the U23 Vietnam as a pride of the Association ofSoutheast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Vietnam had a strongdefense plan against a rival with outstanding physical strength, it said.

The Thai version of FourFour Two newspaper also gave a lot of compliments to the U23 Vietnam, sayingthe team has made history with the second place in Group D after the Republicof Korea.

The Thai Rath newspaper saidVietnam’s young football has surpassed Thailand to become the locomotive of theSoutheast Asian region.-VNA

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