Vietnam veteran coach Le Thuy Hai believed that the upcoming Asian Cup qualifier against Cambodia would be a difficult task for Vietnam national team.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can you assume that playing against Cambodia at home is easy? Don\u2019t you know how to play football?\u201d Hai told Tri Thuc Tre reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore the game starts, there is nothing called easy. Cambodian football has developed very quickly recent years, while we are in the downturn, so it is quite a difficult game for us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n On the other hand, Hai defended his friend, Vietnam caretaker Mai Duc Chung, against the criticism drawn on Chung about his decision to call striker Mai Hong Quan, who has not shown impressive performance at his club, back to the national squad.<\/p>\n \u201cI won\u2019t discuss the players that Chung called up for the squad. We have to respect his decision. He has the right to summon whoever suitable for his tactics,\u201d the 71-year-old said.<\/p>\n The Golden Stars will be back for training on 3 October in Hanoi in the preparation for the qualifier, which takes place a week later.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vietnam veteran coach Le Thuy Hai believed that the upcoming Asian Cup qualifier against Cambodia would be a difficult task for Vietnam national team. \u201cHow can you assume that playing against Cambodia at home is easy? Don\u2019t you know how to play football?\u201d Hai told Tri Thuc Tre reporters. \u201cBefore the game starts, there is nothing called easy. Cambodian football has developed very quickly recent years, while we are in the downturn, so it is quite a difficult game for us,\u201d he added. On the other hand, Hai defended his friend, Vietnam caretaker Mai Duc Chung, against the criticism drawn on Chung about his decision to call striker Mai Hong … Continue reading “Vietnamese coach Le Thuy Hai warns national team ahead of Cambodia match”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[254,204,105],"class_list":["post-7476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam","tag-cambodia","tag-featured","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476","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=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}