According to Vietnamese media VN Express, French coach Trusier is about to become the manager of the Vietnamese national team. The Vietnam Football Association has approved Trussière as the national team manager, and the official announcement will be announced at the end of February. The parties will sign a two-year contract with a one-year renewal clause. In addition, Trusier will also be the coach of Vietnam's Under-23 team.
Two months to get the "White Wizard"
The annual salary of "White Wizard" Trusier will be greatly increased compared to his predecessor, South Korean head Park Hengxu. Previously, Park Hengxu's annual salary was $600,000, and Trucier's annual salary will exceed $2 million, and he will become the highest-paid manager in the history of the Vietnamese national team. The 67-year-old has previously coached national teams including Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Japan, Qatar and Morocco, as well as the Chinese Super League Shenzhen and Zhejiang. Trussier has served as the coach of the Vietnam Under-19 national youth team and has some knowledge of Vietnamese football.
Trussière
After stepping down from Japan, Trusier has been linked with the Chinese men's team many times, and although he was once a popular candidate for the national football manager, for various reasons, he never took up the national football whip. Park officially left after the Southeast Asian Football Championship, where he led the team to runner-up finishes and defeated Thailand in the final. After Park Hengxu's departure was confirmed, the Vietnamese team began the process of selecting the manager, and Trusier's name was linked to the Vietnamese team in December last year.
Judging from the current situation, Trussière's coaching of the Vietnamese team is only waiting for the official announcement, and the Vietnamese team has also ushered in a real famous coach. Trussier's success in Japan, and the little fast spirit of Vietnamese football, should also fit Trusière's coaching style. In addition, assistant coach Lee Young-kim, who was in charge of the Vietnam team during Park Hengxu's management of the Vietnamese team, gave up the opportunity to coach independently at the club as a head coach and will continue to serve as the assistant coach of the Vietnam team, assisting the new coach Trusier. Vietnamese media analysis believes that because Li Yingjin has worked with Park Hengxu for more than 5 years and knows Vietnamese football very well, it is a good thing for him to stay in office.
Vietnamese football has undergone major reforms
It is worth mentioning that last year today (February 1), the first day of the New Year of the Tiger, the national football team and the Vietnamese team played a key match in the group stage of the top 12 of the 2022 World Preliminary Round, and the result was that the national football team lost 1-3, thus missing the Qatar World Cup finals two rounds ahead of schedule. The early exit of the Chinese team did not exceed the expectations of most people, but the team's performance further exacerbated the outside world's concerns about the future of Chinese football.
The efficient change of coaches of the Vietnam Football Association also made the Chinese Football Association a little embarrassed. At the beginning of this month, the Chinese Football Association has already begun the selection of national football coaches, and popular candidates include Queiroz, Olaroyo and Paulo Bento, foreign coaches familiar with Asian football, but there seems to be no further action since then, and the selection of coaches has also stalled. Since the defeat in the round of 12, nearly a year later, the Chinese men's football team has still not started a new World Cup cycle of preparation, and the date of the 2023 Asian Cup is getting closer and closer, it can be said that there is less and less time for the national football team to prepare, and for the subsequent opening of the 2026 World Cup Asian qualifiers, the Asian qualifying quota increased to 8.5, Asian teams are methodically preparing for the game, and Chinese football has not moved so far.
National football training (data map)
At the end of last year, the Vietnam Football Association made an important change after an 11-day conference, in which the football league, women's football league and futsal league will add a naturalized player, and the scope of naturalized players will be expanded. In the previous World Qualifiers, the Vietnamese team only had players such as Deng Van Lin (Dunkov) and Adriano Schmidt, and these two had not yet participated in the match against the national football team. After the introduction of the new rules, Philippe Nguyen (a top goalkeeper who has been selected for the Czech national team), Jason Wen, Jason Pondang (French Second Division defender), Martin Rowe (Australian player) and others can return to play in the Vietnamese league, so that they are all expected to become Vietnamese internationals in the future.
Red Star News reporter Hu Minjuan
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