In the second leg of the final of the Southeast Asian Championship, which ended on the evening of January 1, the Thai men's football team drew 2-2 with the Indonesian men's football team, the former won 6-2 on aggregate, and won the championship for the fifth time in the history of the team. As the defending champion, the Vietnamese men's football team was eliminated by the Thai men's football team at 0-2 in the semi-finals, and the early defense failed, which directly affected Vietnamese football.
Today, according to the reporter Ma Dexing's report, the Vietnamese team did not complete the defense of the title in the Southeast Asian Championship, several assistants of coach Park Heng-so have left the national team, in addition, the president of the Vietnam Football Association Li Kanghai officially announced his resignation, emphasizing that the reason is that the daily affairs are relatively busy, there is no more energy to focus on football affairs, the outside world believes that the Vietnamese team in the Southeast Asian Championships defense failure, so that Li Kanghai resigned.
In recent years, Vietnamese football has developed rapidly and the report card is outstanding, including the runner-up of the 2018 U23 Asian Cup, the 8th round of the 2019 Asian Cup, the gold medal of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games men's and women's football competition, and the first time that the Asian region qualified for the 2022 Qatar World Cup Qualifiers to the Round of 12.
These report cards were obtained during Li Kanghai's presidency of the Vietnam Football Association, so with the failure of the southeast Asian championship to defend his title, Li Kanghai resigned and took the initiative to take responsibility for the loss and loss of the national team.
In addition to the Vietnamese team, there are also teams in the round of 12 due to poor results, after the President of the Syrian Football Association Gayebu voluntarily resigned and left, giving the reason that the national team's performance was too poor, living up to the enthusiasm of Syrian fans.
With the morale of the Vietnamese team low after the failure of the defending Southeast Asian Championship, many assistants of the national team coaching staff have left, which is not conducive to the team's preparation for the round of 12. Vietnam played the next two games away from home against Australia and at home against China.
At present, the national football team plans to organize a new training camp on January 10, Li Xiaopeng led the team to prepare, it is reported that Zheng Zhi, Li Jinyu, Shao Jiayi, Sun Xiang, Zhao Junzhe, Li Leilei and other 6 national football heroes entered the national football coaching team together to assist Li Xiaopeng to prepare for the top 12.
The national football team has maintained all the victories against Vietnam in the previous 11 times, and then the next away game against Vietnam on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the national football team won this victory is very stable.