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Vietnam gets ready for AFC Women’s U16 Championship

Vietnam’s U16 team will gather in Hanoi on January 5 to kick off their nearly-two-month training for the second qualifying round of the 2019 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s U16 Championship.
Vietnam gets ready for AFC Women’s U16 Championship ảnh 1Vietnam defeat Lebanon 7-0 in the first qualifying round of the 2019 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s U16 Championship (Photo: VFF)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s U16 team willgather in Hanoi on January 5 to kick off their nearly-two-month training forthe second qualifying round of the 2019 Asian Football Confederation (AFC)Women’s U16 Championship.

Head coach Nguyen Mai Lan saidthe 27-member team includes two new faces as compared to the squad competing inthe first qualifying round. They are Hong Nhu Hoa from the national junior teamand Le Duong Hoang My from the Ho Chi Minh City football club.

As scheduled, the team will havea 10-day training session in Cam Pha city in the northern coastal province ofQuang Ninh starting January 7. They will return to Hanoi on January 17 tocontinue their training in two weeks before the lunar New Year holidays, whichlasts for a week. The training will resume in Ho Chi Minh City for 10 days tohelp the players get used to hot weather.

On March 1, the team will leavefor Laos to play the second qualifying round, where they play the hosts Laos,Iran and Australia.

In the first qualifying round,Vietnam defeated Lebanon 7-0, Bahrain 14-0 and the United Arab Emirates 4-0,and lost 2-0 to the hosts Bangladesh in Group F. These results secured the teamthe second place and a spot in the next round.

The second qualifying round willinclude eight teams and divided into two groups.

The two winners of each groupwill qualify for the final round of the AFC Women’s U16 Championship with the hostsThailand together with the winner, runner-up and second runner-up of theprevious tournament, namely the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Republicof Korea and Japan.-VNA
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