{"id":7488,"date":"2017-09-30T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2017-10-01T03:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T18:05:27","slug":"newly-appointed-coach-park-eyes-2020-olympic-berth-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/09\/30\/newly-appointed-coach-park-eyes-2020-olympic-berth-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly appointed coach Park eyes 2020 Olympic berth with Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/09\/29\/vietnam-appoint-south-korean-manager-park-hang-seo-national-team-head-coach\/\">Newly-appointed Park Hang-seo<\/a> has targeted a 2020 Olympic berth with Vietnam U-22 team, according to an exclusive interview <a href=\"http:\/\/news.chosun.com\/site\/data\/html_dir\/2017\/09\/30\/2017093000484.html\">with Korea news site Chosun.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My contract with Vietnam teams starts from this October and will be expired at the end of 2019. The term of this contract is 2 years and 2 months. I have to lead both the national team and U-23 team. Obviously, I must have a strong heart for those heavy missions,&#8221; Park said.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about his target in the next two years, the 60-year-old insisted: &#8220;In short, I want to take Vietnam football forward. I expect the team to grow strongly in the 2019 Asian Cup and even earn a berth in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Park was an assistant for head coach Guus Hiddink of the South Korean national team in World Cup 2002. He played a role in South Korea\u2019s fourth place, which has been the best an Asian side has ever performed in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the Korean coached his country\u2019s U23 team to a bronze medal at the 2003 Asian Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-appointed Park Hang-seo has targeted a 2020 Olympic berth with Vietnam U-22 team, according to an exclusive interview with Korea news site Chosun. &#8220;My contract with Vietnam teams starts from this October and will be expired at the end of 2019. The term of this contract is 2 years and 2 months. I have to lead both the national team and U-23 team. Obviously, I must have a strong heart for those heavy missions,&#8221; Park said. Talking about his target in the next two years, the 60-year-old insisted: &#8220;In short, I want to take Vietnam football forward. I expect the team to grow strongly in the 2019 Asian Cup and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/09\/30\/newly-appointed-coach-park-eyes-2020-olympic-berth-vietnam\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Newly appointed coach Park eyes 2020 Olympic berth with Vietnam&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[70,105,962],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam","tag-south-korea","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-u-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","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=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}