{"id":10622,"date":"2018-01-22T02:43:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=10622"},"modified":"2018-01-22T02:43:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:43:47","slug":"park-hang-seo-my-players-prove-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/01\/22\/park-hang-seo-my-players-prove-ability\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam coach Park Hang-seo: My players proved their ability against Asia\u2019s elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam coach Park Hang-seo praised his boys after beating Iraq in the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/01\/21\/vietnam-edge-iraq-penalties-reach-afc-u-23-championship-last-four\/\">dramatic penalty shootout<\/a> to reach the AFC U-23 Championship last four.<\/p>\n<p>The young Golden Stars\u00a0defeated former champions Iraq 5-3 in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw following extra-time in the Saturday\u00a0quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have total confidence in my players, and they proved their capabilities today,\u201d he said in the post-match press conference, as quoted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-u-23-championship\/latest\/news\/vietnam-among-asia-s-best-says-coach-park\">AFC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven on the physical side, they were equal to our opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn attack, we played very well with two strikers and maybe I will use the same strategy in the next match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We changed our tactics during the match, especially when Iraq started to use the long passes and crosses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Iraq team doesn&#8217;t press hard as a team, and because of that we knew that we could use the space on the right and the left side of the Iraqi defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam coach Park Hang-seo praised his boys after beating Iraq in the dramatic penalty shootout to reach the AFC U-23 Championship last four. The young Golden Stars\u00a0defeated former champions Iraq 5-3 in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw following extra-time in the Saturday\u00a0quarter-final. &#8220;I have total confidence in my players, and they proved their capabilities today,\u201d he said in the post-match press conference, as quoted on AFC website. \u201cEven on the physical side, they were equal to our opponent. \u201cIn attack, we played very well with two strikers and maybe I will use the same strategy in the next match. &#8220;We changed our tactics during the match, especially when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/01\/22\/park-hang-seo-my-players-prove-ability\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Vietnam coach Park Hang-seo: My players proved their ability against Asia\u2019s elite&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[692,415,105],"class_list":["post-10622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam","tag-2018-afc-u-23-championship","tag-iraq","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}