Hanoi (VNA) -Head coach of Vietnam’s national football team Park Hang-seo has called 27players to prepare for the upcoming match against Thailand in the Asian zone’ssecond qualifying round for the World Cup 2020.
The Korean coachcontinued to put his belief in successful footballers. Most of them are fromV.League 1 champions Hanoi FC and Hoang Anh Gia Lai.
Meanwhile, new facesinclude defenders Lam Anh Quang from Nam Dinh, Nguyen Huu Tuan (HCM City FC)and Do Thanh Thinh (SHB Da Nang), and forward Ha Minh Tuan (Quang Nam FC).
Most of the players willconvene in Hanoi on August 26 while those of Hanoi FC will arrive three dayslater as the team will play Turkmenistan’s Altyn Asyr in the return leg of theAFC Cup 2019 Inter-Zone semi-finals.
The Vietnamese squadwill leave for Thailand on September 1 to prepare for the match against thehosts on September 5.
Park on August 22 alsoannounced members of the U22 team for a friendly match against China’s U22squad, which is slated for September 8 in Hubei province of China.
It will be the firstofficial international friendly of the team in preparation for the 30thSoutheast Asian Games (SEA Games 30) in the Philippines later this year.
Vietnam’s U22 team willgather in Hanoi for training from August 26 and travel to China on September6.-VNA