Coach Truong Quoc Tuan: Vietnam Women’s Futsal team aims for the 31st SEA Games Gold Medal

The 31st SEA Games women’s futsal sport has the presence of 4 teams including hosts Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia. At the press conference, head coach Truong Quoc Tuan said: “It’s been a long time since women’s futsal has been organized again, the players are quite inexperienced internationally. We were quite worried, but we also had an international friendly. . Our goal in the SEA Games held at the stadium, the BHL aims to try to win the gold medal.”

“With the team’s gold medal goal, the biggest opponent is Thailand. We lost to them in many SEA Games finals, by this year’s tournament, they will still become the biggest opponent. The final score was gradually shortened, in 2011 they lost 3-2, in 2018 the Asian tournament drew 2 main halves,” recalled Truong Quoc Tuan. “Since the time when the women’s futsal team was concentrated, there were always professional futsal players and friends on the field switched. You play on the grass field but contribute a lot to the futsal team, I hope the grass-court players will To help my teammates more at SEA Games 31. I have 7 people who practice futsal professionally. There are 4 people who attend the SEA Games for the first time and join the team for the first time”, coach Truong Quoc Tuan revealed more about the force of the Vietnamese women’s futsal team.

Meanwhile, the captain of the Vietnamese women’s futsal team Nguyen Thi Chau said: “My goal as well as the whole team is to win gold for the Vietnamese women’s futsal team. Before that, because we only won silver. 31 with everyone fully prepared and I don’t want to disappoint anyone. We try to play our best.”

Despite being a championship candidate, head coach Suraphong of the Thai futsal team showed modesty: “I think all teams have similar strength at SEA Games 31. Thailand is the defending champion, but we are not. If you underestimate anyone, I will analyze the opponent match by match. We think Vietnam is a very strong opponent because they have the advantage of home field as well as a large number of fans. Thailand will try. This army further revealed: “It is really difficult to find information about opponents, including Vietnam. I applied the new tactic of all thinking independently on the field to find the weak points of the opponent. The process is more practice on the field than study in the locker room. The 31st SEA Games women’s futsal will officially kick off on the afternoon of May 15 when the Vietnamese women’s futsal team will face Myanmar and Thailand will meet Malaysia. Teams compete in a round robin, the team with the highest score will get a gold medal.

In his answer, Myanmar women’s futsal team coach, Mr. Tin Maung Thay said: “We are a new team and have only focused for 2 months. It is very difficult for women’s futsal in our country at the moment. Currently, Myanmar team does not have any professional female futsal players. Myanmar has many difficulties, we will try our best.” Mr. Tin Maung Htay again cautiously: “I appreciate all opponents and we respect all our opponents I don’t have much information about Vietnam team After 2 weeks of training we had 2 friendly matches in Thailand and won one against a new team and won the team of a university”.

Also at this press conference, head coach Jamhuri Zainuddin of the Malaysian women’s futsal team said: “We don’t have any professional futsal players, some of them are working. The players are all moving from 11th court teams to futsal. Before going to the SEA Games, we had our own futsal training for them. This is a very important tournament and every match is a final for us. I want to get points in all 3. game, I want to encourage my players to play to the best of their ability.”

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