Head coach Philip Troussier, who led Japanese football to the first round of 16 in the World Cup, will take over the leadership of the Vietnam national team, succeeding coach Park Hang-seo.
The Vietnam Football Association officially announced on its website on the 16th that it had appointed Troussier as the new head coach of the adult national team and the under-23 national team.
Since 2018, coach Troussier has already established a relationship with Vietnamese football, serving as the technical director of PVF, the youth training center of the Vietnam Football Association. The Vietnam Football Association will hold an official inauguration ceremony for him at the end of this month. The Vietnam Football Association introduced, “His first mission is to train the U-23 national team to participate in the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) held in Cambodia in May.”
Troussier is well known in Korea for serving as the head coach of the Japanese national team, which was co-hosted with Korea during the 2002 World Cup.
Coach Troussier, who led Japanese soccer to victory in the Asian Cup in 2000, advanced to the final and finished runner-up at the 2001 Confederations Cup held the following year. 먹튀검증
During the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, the Japanese national team he led beat Russia and Tunisia, drew with Belgium to advance to the round of 16, and then lost to Turkiye to fail in the quarterfinals.
As the Japanese national team performed well, Troussier, who was a 47-year-old young general at the time, also went up in price. Based on this, he was appointed to the prestigious French Olympique Marseille after passing through the Qatar national team.
However, he was unable to settle down in France due to poor grades, and since then, he has been involved with Vietnamese football for several years through the Moroccan national team and Hangzhou Lucheng (China).
He took over the Vietnam national team, which coach Park had raised to an Asian level, and will bet on the final game of his leadership career.