Midfielder Phan Thanh Hau has officially been ruled out of the coming U-20 World Cup in South Korea.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old suffered a ligament injury and could not recover in time to make the final squad, according to reports from Vietnam.<\/p>\n
This news is rather disappointing for Vietnam U-20 head coach Hoang Anh Tuan, as he previously lost midfielders, Bui Tien Dung and Thai Quy to other injuries.<\/p>\n
Argentina U-20 also lost an important player in a friendly match against Vietnam U-22.<\/p>\n
Striker\u00a0Lautaro Martinez was stretched off after a colliding with Vietnamese centre-back Tran Dinh Khuong.<\/p>\n
It is expected that Martinez will be sidelined for a few weeks and is likely to miss out on the 2017 U-20 World Cup, as the tournament kicks off next week.<\/p>\n
19-year-old Martinez is a hot prospect of Racing Club and made his presence noticeable by netting 5 goals in the 2017 South American Youth Football Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Midfielder Phan Thanh Hau has officially been ruled out of the coming U-20 World Cup in South Korea. The 20-year-old suffered a ligament injury and could not recover in time to make the final squad, according to reports from Vietnam. This news is rather disappointing for Vietnam U-20 head coach Hoang Anh Tuan, as he previously lost midfielders, Bui Tien Dung and Thai Quy to other injuries. Argentina U-20 also lost an important player in a friendly match against Vietnam U-22. Striker\u00a0Lautaro Martinez was stretched off after a colliding with Vietnamese centre-back Tran Dinh Khuong. It is expected that Martinez will be sidelined for a few weeks and is likely … Continue reading “Vietnam U-20 lose key man in midfield ahead of U-20 World Cup”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,40],"tags":[737,811,812],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546"}],"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=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}