This defeat, along with the 0-3 defeat against Indonesia in the World Cup qualifiers, shows that Vietnamese football has taken a huge step back compared to its regional rivals. Even the 2024 ASEAN Cup championship cannot fill that growing gap, as the speed of naturalizing players of our opponents is always many times faster than ours.
But the biggest lesson for Vietnamese football is not how to naturalize players, but to look at it from a broader perspective, the human factor, of which naturalizing players is just one aspect. Looking purely at sports , Vietnam lost heavily to Malaysia simply because their human quality was better.
The more naturalized players who can live, train and compete in Europe, the easier it is to boost the overall level of the team. That is the nature of football, whether to naturalize or not, how much or how much, is simply a technical choice.
Vietnamese football certainly cannot stay out of the trend of naturalizing players, but that is not the priority choice when we do not have financial and resource advantages, at least in the immediate future. V-League is not open about foreign players, clubs do not have enough money to recruit high-quality foreign players, so cases like Nguyen Xuan Son are not many. Meanwhile, the source of overseas Vietnamese players needs a more proactive and scientific approach, and this work requires time as well as financial resources to serve the search and mobilization work on a world scale.
In other words, how to make the national team players have the physical quality and football skills at the continental and world level is the goal, whether they are domestic players or overseas Vietnamese or naturalized foreign players. In the context of limited external supply, far behind that of countries in the same region, managers must accelerate the process of developing domestic players through both short-term and long-term decisions.
Despite their differences, football-developing countries all build their roadmaps on a broad foundation, from grassroots football to youth training and the ability to accumulate finance through club competition. The more clubs with strong financial resources, the more professional the competition environment, the more professional players are created, and that is the competitive foundation for many choices for the national team. On the other hand, when club football "blossoms", the demand for training and competition will naturally increase, and that is only beneficial for football.
The defeat against Malaysia has made Vietnamese football face an urgent need: If we cannot move forward, we will fall behind and that day is not far away. Footballers need to immediately forget about their mental advantages and cannot continue to look at past titles and achievements to hope for some kind of "change of life" in the context of surrounding opponents acting and moving forward too quickly.
Although we know that to revive football requires many factors, the most important factor is still the human factor. That is the synchronous development of culture, thinking, physical and training. It is time for our country's football to have a "national action program", a radical reform from the root, with the participation of many sectors and especially social resources.
Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/bai-hoc-lam-bong-da-post799389.html
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