The Vietnamese women's team can be confident in their first time setting foot in the biggest football festival on the planet thanks to their achievements after the recent training trip to Europe.
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| Vietnam women's football team players practice hard in Germany before returning home. (Source: VFF) |
With narrow defeats against U23 Poland or the two-time world champion Germany, coach Mai Duc Chung and his team can confidently look forward to the biggest tournament on the planet, which will open next month.
In the most recent friendly matches in Europe, the Vietnamese girls surprised many people with their performance against opponents who were stronger than them in every way.
Facing a two-time world champion team like Germany, even though they had to play away, Thanh Nha and her teammates played very confidently.
The proactive defense that coach Mai Duc Chung applied to the whole team has had positive effects.
Before Thanh Nha's goal, strikers Hai Yen and Vu Thi Hoa both had the opportunity to score against the former World Cup champion.
Playing with the world's top opponents like Germany or before that France helped Thanh Nha and her teammates understand the difference in class of football.
Vietnam cannot close the gap with the world's major football powers in just a few months or a year. Knowing yourself and your opponent will help coach Mai Duc Chung and his team be aware and make efforts.
At the world's leading playground, the Vietnamese women's team promises to face stronger opponents. It is a large-scale arena and everything must be clearly calculated. Coach Mai Duc Chung's team may concede a goal, but the spirit must not collapse, not give up too soon.
The will to progress must be maintained to urge everyone to unite and work towards protecting the honor and colors of Vietnam. Spirit is what can decide the achievements of the Vietnamese women's team in the World Cup arena.
After positive results in Europe, the problem now for coach Mai Duc Chung and his team is that they are completely capable of scoring against the world's top opponents.
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| Thanh Nha (holding flowers) and her teammates returned home early this afternoon (June 27). (Photo: NH) |
The playing style that coach Mai Duc Chung and his team have chosen is reasonable and as long as they persevere, they will reap sweet rewards. Strong opponents will certainly overwhelm the Vietnamese women's team, which is an opportunity for fast players like Thanh Nha or Vu Thi Hoa to show themselves at the upcoming World Cup.
Thanh Nha's goal was achieved by breaking the offside trap from the home field, when the German team was "intoxicated" with the attack to find more goals. Coach Mai Duc Chung and his team understood their opponents' intentions very well and "snail" Thanh Nha was chosen to surprise the opponent.
With promising young names who have made their mark on the team in recent times such as Thanh Nha, Van Su or Vu Thi Hoa, the Vietnamese women's team shows their inheritance and maybe thanks to the World Cup, they will be confident to grow even more.
The Vietnamese women's team still has other strategies in training and certainly, they must prepare other "attacks" to confront women's football powerhouses like the US, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
Coach Mai Duc Chung's team is looking forward to the return of captain Huynh Nhu, the team's spiritual leader both on and off the field.
The Vietnamese women’s team has also learned lessons from the failure of the Thai women’s team at the World Cup. To avoid heavy defeats like the teams in the same region, the Vietnamese girls need to prepare many scenarios to bring to Australia and New Zealand next July.
For the Vietnamese women's team, instead of dreaming about points, just scoring a goal on the biggest playground on the planet is already a miracle.
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