Cambodia coach Leonardo Vitorino admitted that Vietnamese players are “on a higher level” than his side after their disastrous\u00a05-0 defeat in the 2019 Asian Cup qualifier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Cambodia football has made some progress but still needs more time to develop,” Leonardo said in the post-match press conference, as quoted by Dan Tri<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I was not satisfied with our\u00a0defenders. I think\u00a0the\u00a0technique of the players must come from the\u00a0national league. Vietnam has the\u00a0opportunity to develop, based on the high quality of their V-League.<\/p>\n V-League has a different scale and characteristics with our football league. In the next match, I will have to drop many older players and replace them with the younger.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cambodia coach Leonardo Vitorino admitted that Vietnamese players are “on a higher level” than his side after their disastrous\u00a05-0 defeat in the 2019 Asian Cup qualifier on Tuesday. “Cambodia football has made some progress but still needs more time to develop,” Leonardo said in the post-match press conference, as quoted by Dan Tri. “I was not satisfied with our\u00a0defenders. I think\u00a0the\u00a0technique of the players must come from the\u00a0national league. Vietnam has the\u00a0opportunity to develop, based on the high quality of their V-League. V-League has a different scale and characteristics with our football league. In the next match, I will have to drop many older players and replace them with the … Continue reading “Cambodia coach Vitorino: Vietnamese players a class above Cambodian”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[858],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cambodia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","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=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}