Park Hang-seo, the newly-appointed head coach of Vietnam U-23 team admitted that his side would face a difficult task at 2018 AFC U-23 Championship next year.<\/p>\n
Vietnam U-23\u00a0were drawn into Group D of strong contenders Australia and South Korea, which is the team headed by Park in 2002.<\/p>\n
“Many people say that because I am Korean, I should understand my country’s U-23 football team, and that will be an advantage for Vietnam U-23. But that is not right, understanding the opponents does not mean we can beat them,” the 60-year-old said, as quoted by Vietnamnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Actually before the draw, I did not think about facing Korea U-23. […] But the level of Vietnamese players is not far behind Korean counterparts,” he added.<\/p>\n The first task for Park is to coaching the national team at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifier against Afghanistan on 14 November at My Dinh National Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Park Hang-seo, the newly-appointed head coach of Vietnam U-23 team admitted that his side would face a difficult task at 2018 AFC U-23 Championship next year. Vietnam U-23\u00a0were drawn into Group D of strong contenders Australia and South Korea, which is the team headed by Park in 2002. “Many people say that because I am Korean, I should understand my country’s U-23 football team, and that will be an advantage for Vietnam U-23. But that is not right, understanding the opponents does not mean we can beat them,” the 60-year-old said, as quoted by Vietnamnet. “Actually before the draw, I did not think about facing Korea U-23. […] But the … Continue reading “Park Hang-seo: Vietnam U23 not far behind South Korea”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[692,1011,70,105],"class_list":["post-8269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vietnam","tag-2018-afc-u-23-championship","tag-park-hang-seo","tag-south-korea","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269","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=8269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}