Domestic coaches are winning over foreign coaches in V-League

The most anticipated but also the most disappointing coach so far is Coach Gong Oh-kyun (Korean) of Hanoi Police Club (CAHN). After 4 matches in charge of the V-League, Mr. Gong Oh-kyun has not had any wins (2 draws, 2 losses).

Coach Gong Oh-kyun is having trouble with CAHN Club

Coach Gong Oh-kyun was successful with the Vietnam U.23 team at the AFC U.23 Championship finals last year. Thanks to his achievement of bringing the Vietnam U.23 team to the quarterfinals of the tournament last year, Coach Gong Oh-kyun has attracted the attention of the Vietnamese football community.

But since returning to CAHN Club in the past 2 months, the Korean coach has not left his mark.

The nature of managing national teams is different from the nature of managing a national championship. The teams, specifically the U.23 Vietnam team last year, play short-term tournaments, while the V-League is a tournament that lasts for many months.

Calculating the form and fitness points for their team's players, from the coaches' side, is therefore not the same.

Not to mention, for the V-League, finding information to research opponents will be more difficult than researching teams like U.23 Korea, Thailand and Malaysia in last year's U.23 Asian tournament.

This is because information about Korean, Thai or Malaysian football is easier to find than information and videos about Khanh Hoa and Hai Phong teams in the V-League (these are the teams that Coach Gong Oh-kyun's CAHN Club has lost to in the past 2 months).

Another case that is also facing difficulties in V-League is Coach Kiatisak Senamuang (Thai) of HAGL Club. Compared to Coach Gong Oh-kyun, Coach Kiatisak understands Vietnamese football much better.

Coach Kiatisak has not been successful with HAGL

However, it seems that "Thai Zico" is being figured out by the Vietnamese football world. After the first season in 2021, helping HAGL Club lead the V-League (but was not recognized as champion because the tournament was suspended midway), Coach Kiatisak's achievements with the mountain town team gradually declined in the following years.

Up to this point, "Thai Zico's" HAGL has returned to the position of a candidate for... relegation. The objective reason for HAGL's poor performance is that their squad is weaker than in 2021, after the departure of many key players.

However, on the side of Coach Kiatisak, it has not been seen that this coach has any special plan to help the mountain town team transform. Even in selecting foreign strikers, the position of "Thai Zico" when he was a player, Coach Kiatisak has not found a truly effective striker for HAGL in the past few years.

In terms of adaptability, domestic coaches may have an advantage over foreign coaches, simply because they are familiar with the Vietnamese football environment.

Coach Le Huynh Duc (right cover) helps Binh Duong top the table

Up to this point in the 2023-2024 season, the most successful coaches are all domestic coaches: Le Huynh Duc is leading the table with Binh Duong Club, Vu Hong Viet is second in the table with Nam Dinh Club, Phung Thanh Phuong is undefeated even though he is just a "substitute" at Ho Chi Minh City Club, Chu Dinh Nghiem helps Hai Phong team play with personality...

In particular, Coach Phung Thanh Phuong is a typical example of the adaptability of some domestic coaches. Mr. Phuong took over the Ho Chi Minh City team in a hurry, after the somewhat unexpected departure of his predecessor Vu Tien Thanh. The Ho Chi Minh City club's strength is no better, or even worse, than that of Coach Kiatisak's HAGL.

Coach Phung Thanh Phuong is successful with Ho Chi Minh City Club.

However, coach Phung Thanh Phuong is helping the almost unknown team, both domestic and foreign, jump up the rankings, with 4 unbeaten matches (2 wins, 2 draws).

The period of time coach Phung Thanh Phuong took charge of the Ho Chi Minh City team almost coincided with the period of time coach Gong Oh-kyun took charge of the CAHN team. However, the achievements between these two teams were too different in the last 4 rounds, although in theory coach Gong Oh-kyun had many advantages over coach Phung Thanh Phuong, especially the advantage in the quality of the players he possessed.

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