The helplessness of a warrior is always burning
Alone in the very “second home”
Last night, on Thong Nhat Stadium, Van Toan once again angrily snatched the captain’s armband from his hand when the match ended. In the post-match press conference, the striker had to give an explanation: “I just took off the captain’s armband, didn’t throw it. In the match, everyone makes mistakes, domestic or foreign soldiers too, I just urge the brothers in the team to be more focused. Foreign players are still doing well, hopefully they will do better for the rest of the tournament“.
Van Toan is still the same, always bursting on the pitch – regardless of expertise or attitude, but always restrained, gentle and full of sadness when leaving the field. The praise for HAGL’s foreign soldiers is an example. Everyone saw that Baiano – a foreign striker who played next to him on the front line, was really bad not only in the last 3 AFC Champions League matches, but also in the previous 4 V.League matches. Song Van Toan still praised his teammates.
Maybe, more than anyone else, this Hai Duong striker knows the feeling of “being redundant” when not being able to score a goal despite the opportunity. For more than 5 years, Van Toan is still an “unlucky star” in the hands of coach Park Hang-seo when he has not been able to score any goals in the national team shirt.
Not only that, when Van Toan must have had moments of self-pity when in turn Tuan Anh, Xuan Truong and Cong Phuong were elected Germany to create conditions to compete abroad, even many times, but the opportunity mine has never come.
After all, although it has always been a solid pillar and a reliable fulcrum of HAGL for the past 6 seasons, even from “bottoming” to “climbing to the top”, the striker has a speed of “tearing the wind”. This show has never surpassed the attraction from the popularity of Cong Phuong, Xuan Truong, Tuan Anh. Maybe Van Toan doesn’t have a star number…
What opportunities for Van Toan?
This is not the first time Van Toan has caused fans to argue with the act of snatching the captain’s armband. Nearly two years ago, he even took the tape out of his hand and threw it on the ground in the match against SHB Da Nang in the 6th round of V.League 2020.
That day, after the anger of the fans, the striker had to apologize. But after that, there were many comments expressing sympathy for him. One newspaper at the time wrote: “Looking at HAGL playing football, it is easy to see that only a few players really put in effort. The rest are almost superfluous or complete the task at a very low level. Also because of disorientation, HAGL has a good match, a bad game and often a lot more bad than good.
Bau Duc is still proud of HAGL standing out from the competition and fighting in the V.League. But that pride has been corroding Van Toan’s desire to compete. So what’s the point of being proud?“.
At the end of that season, Van Toan once again “gets angry” with his teammates by saying: “I hope you all look up to the stands and play“.
Then Kiatisuk returned to HAGL, blowing a new breath of vitality to bring HAGL to the “top” with an extremely convincing season, to win the right to represent Vietnamese football to play in the continental playground. Only in the challenging new season, in the big playground where Van Toan, Cong Phuong, Tuan Anh… have never played, the Thai leader makes a serious mistake.
Until now, HAGL’s result in this season’s AFC Champions League is quite positive, even though it has only 1 point. Despite receiving 2 defeats, in the eyes of the opponents, the Vietnamese team is clearly quite formidable, instead of the “paved road” image that many people have imagined.
But the fact that Coach Kiatisuk is too fond of foreign strikers with extremely poor performance, as well as not having the best preparation for HAGL to have a reasonable squad depth is making not only the Nui team have to pay the price, but also make Van Toan pay the price with his opportunity to go abroad. At the age of 26, Van Toan’s opportunity to “go to the big sea” is not much.
After the burning image on the pitch for the pride of HAGL, for the pride of Vietnamese football, Van Toan will once again be helpless?
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