At the 2024 AFF Cup, the Vietnamese team is in Group B with 4 teams: Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar and Laos. All 4 teams have major changes in their skills. Laos is the first team in Group B to change its coach before the AFF Cup, Ha Hyeok-jun ( Korean ) has only been in the Laos team's coach chair since August 14. However, because the Laos team is quite weak and has almost no ability to compete in Group B, the change of head coach of this team is not noticed much.
Teams that have and will change their head coaches, but the ones that have received more attention are the Philippines and Myanmar. Coach Tom Saintfiet (Belgian) left the Philippines team yesterday (August 29), accepting to lead the Mali team. The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) temporarily appointed domestic coach Norman Fegidero to replace him. The new coach comes with a new philosophy, so what coach Tom Saintfiet built for the Philippines team, which was known to the Vietnamese team in the second qualifying round of the 2026 World Cup in Asia, will also change significantly.
Coach Tom Saintfiet has left the Philippines team.
The next opponent preparing to change coach is Myanmar. This team has said goodbye to German coach Michael Feichtenbeine. There are rumors that the Myanmar Football Federation will appoint a Japanese coach to lead this team at the AFF Cup, but so far they have not officially announced the name of Michael Feichtenbeine 's successor.
If the Myanmar team were to fall into the hands of a Japanese coach, the team would likely change their playing style significantly: they would be more disciplined, play more short balls to suit the physical condition of Myanmar players, instead of playing long balls like Germany did in the past.
Mr. Michael Feichtenbeine is also no longer in charge of the Myanmar team.
As for Indonesia, the team of the archipelago is stable in the coaching position, but there are big changes in the players. First, Dutch goalkeeper Maarten Paes has been naturalized, making Indonesia a team that can use 11 players officially born outside the archipelago at the same time. This goalkeeper has also been called up to the Indonesian team to participate in the third round of the 2026 World Cup Asian qualifiers in September, against Saudi Arabia (September 5) and Australia (September 10).
Next, Indonesian centre-back Jay Idzes has successfully secured a place at Italian club Venezia. Thanks to that, the centre-back will become the first player in Southeast Asian football history to play in Italy's Serie A, which kicks off this weekend.
AFF Cup 2024: A real test for coach Kim Sang-sik
Goalkeeper Maarten Paes is eligible to play for the Indonesian national team
The squad is getting better and better, more Europeanized, the Indonesian team is becoming more and more formidable in the eyes of opponents in Southeast Asia, including the Vietnamese team. The task of the team in the hands of coach Kim Sang-sik is to quickly learn about the changes of the opponents, adapt to these changes, before the Vietnamese team competes with the teams of Indonesia, the Philippines and Myanmar in the AFF Cup 2024.
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