Revealing the reason why U23 Vietnam wore an unnamed shirt at the 31st SEA Games

In the opening match at SEA Games 31, U23 Vietnam did not have too many difficulties to beat Indonesia U23 with a bold score of 3-0. This is really a voyeuristic performance of coach Park Hang-seo and his students.

In addition to the team’s victory, what makes fans wonder is the fact that our players go to the field with costumes that only have numbers, not names. So what was the reason for that decision?

According to the disclosure, the regulations of the SEA Games men’s football sport clearly state that participating teams are required to print numbers on their shirts, but names may not be needed. The reason U23 Vietnam does not print the name is because in case a player comes to replace or supplement a teammate in the team because of Covid-19 it will not take more time to reprint the name on that shirt number. .

Remember, at the final round of Southeast Asia U23 in early 2022, because there were too many players on the team suffering from Covid-19, we constantly had to urgently add names from home to Cambodia to ” response” for the team.

Because of that, the process of making the shirt did not take place really properly. Goalkeeper Tran Liem Dieu in the semi-final against U23 East Timor because the team was out of people, so he was forced to enter the field as a striker.

The shirt he was wearing was also printed with the wrong name. It was a rather unfortunate “error” but nonetheless did not detract from the joy of winning the match of U23 Vietnam in that competition.

Perhaps because of that, Mr. Park did not want to print the player’s name on the back of the shirt. Another small reason for that decision is to make it impossible for the opponent to remember the names of our stars, making it more difficult for them to identify.

At SEA Games 31, there were changes such as Nguyen Tien Linh wearing number 9 (different from 22 as usual) Nguyen Thanh Binh wearing number 4 (instead of number 5) and Nguyen Van Toan wearing number 18 (instead of number 5). for number 1).

That will make our opponents somewhat “noisy” in evaluating each player in the team compared to the previous preparation.