Hanoi (VNA) -Vietnamese striker Ha Duc Chinh has been named as one of the players to watchout for at the AFC U23 Championship 2020 finals in Thailand.
According to foxsportasia.com,Vietnam’s ability to repeat their remarkable performance from 2018 when theyreached the final rests on the shoulders of their strikers.
With 22-year-old forward Chinhset to lead the line, the powerful player will be looking to build on his recentfine form when he finished Vietnam’s triumphant Southeast Asian Games campaignas joint top scorer.
Suphanat Mueanta of Thailandalso made the top 11. He has been no stranger catching the eye with hisrecord-breaking ways despite his tender age.
He was the youngest player toever score in Thai League 1 at the age of 15 and then memorably played againstopponents three years his senior at last year’s AFC U-19 Championship.
The Buriram United starlet,also the youngest scorer in AFC Champions League history, is set to be theyoungest player at the upcoming AFC U23 Championship.
The website alsopicked Zhang Yuning of China, Mohamed Al-Shamsi of United ArabEmirates (UAE), Daiki Hashioka of Japan, Abdulrahman Ghareeb of Saudi Arabia,Abdelrahman Moustafa of Qatar, Bobir Abdixolikov of Uzbekistan, AllahyarSayyadmanesh of Iran, Jeong Woo-yeong of the Republic of Korea and JacobItaliano of Australia.
Vietnam are in Group Dwith the UAE, Jordan and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Vietnam will meet the UAE onJanuary 10 and then will take on Jordan on January 13. They will wrap upthe group stage against the DPRK on January 16./.