Coach Park Hang-seo worries about Vietnam’s World Cup dream

In his last words before saying goodbye to the 31st SEA Games, U.23 head coach Timor Leste Da Silva highly appreciated the potential of U.23. Vietnamese footballwith wishes for the Vietnamese team to soon be present in the World Cup 2026 or 2030.

Coach Park Hang-seo expressed: “Actually, this is a difficult question to answer. First of all, I would like to thank coach Timor Leste for the opinion. I think that at this moment it is difficult to talk about a good 2026 World Cup story. 2030, because there are 4 and 8 years left.

I think we need a specific vision and plan to achieve some goal. We must plan and execute systematically.

I don’t think we can set a target, and proceed to do something vaguely, but need to act if there is a specific goal.”

Coach Park Hang-seo in the victory against U.23 Timor Leste Independence

In fact, from 2018 until now, Vietnamese football is witnessing a cycle of achievements, starting with the runner-up of the AFC U.23 Championship finals, the ASIAD 2018 semi-finals, the 2018 AFF Cup champion, the Asian Cup quarterfinals. 2019 and made it to the final qualifying round World Cup 2022…

This is helping Soccer creating a wave of positivity throughout the country, igniting the love of football and also the belief that Vietnam will one day attend the World Cup – just like how Vietnamese women’s recruitment just made it.

Midfielder Hai Long competes for the ball with player Timor Leste Independence

“Vietnam is investing in football. If we want to set goals for the next four to eight years, we have to invest in a systematic way. Right now, we need to prepare how to be after four years.” – 8 years will have a generation of players reaching the level of the World Cup.

For me, Vietnam will need legacy and circular plans and systems to achieve higher and longer-term goals. That’s it, World Cup It’s not a dream anymore.” Mr. Park expressed.