Sad stories of Vietnamese football players going abroad

Total failure

Even the fact that Cong Phuong renewed his contract with Japan's Yokohama FC is considered a big surprise, because last year this striker failed completely professionally at Yokohama FC.

Cong Phuong is almost never registered in Yokohama FC's matches in the Japanese professional league.

Professionally, Cong Phuong failed completely at Yokohama FC (Photo: Yokohama FC).

Perhaps Cong Phuong's stay with the Japanese team is more related to financial issues than professional matters. According to some sources, Cong Phuong's salary at Yokohama FC is much higher than the average salary in the V-League.

In addition, Cong Phuong's continued stay in Japan may also be related to his personal and family business. In general, Cong Phuong has a reason to choose to stay at Yokohama FC, even though this reason is not professional.

Not only Cong Phuong, all Vietnamese male players failed in foreign tournaments in 2023.

Quang Hai lost his place at Pau FC (France) and had to leave the club last summer. At Pau FC, Quang Hai was pushed down to play in the club's B team, alongside young players. Pau FC's B team plays in the 5th division of French football, which is outside the professional system of French football.

Luckily for Quang Hai, the Hanoi Police Club (CAHN) welcomed him back to the country, saving the career of the most talented midfielder in Vietnamese football.

Quang Hai only found himself again after returning home to play for CAHN Club (Photo: Manh Quan).

Only after returning home, Quang Hai found himself again, found the joy of playing football again and regained his place in the national team, regained his place and position in the domestic football village.

Van Toan is a similar case, he returned home in the summer of 2023, after a short time playing for Seoul E-Land Club (Korea).

Unlike Cong Phuong and Quang Hai, Van Toan still occasionally plays for Seoul E-Land Club, still making some contributions to the Korean team. Van Toan's passes still help his teammates at Seoul E-Land score goals.

But professional football abroad has a completely different philosophy than Vietnamese football. In Vietnam, in the V-League and the national team, Van Toan or even Cong Phuong do not score often, but they still have a place.

Big difference in philosophy and gap in class

For example, Cong Phuong, although a bright star in the domestic arena, has never been the top scorer in the V-League for many years, nor has he been the top scorer in the national team.

Van Toan left Seoul E-Land (Korea) to return home to find his place in the Vietnamese national team (Photo: Thu Luong).

As for Van Toan, a player from Hoang Anh Gia Lai Club (HAGL), he only scores occasionally for the national team, sometimes only once every 2-3 years. However, he still regularly plays for the Vietnamese national team.

Cong Phuong and Van Toan still have a place in the country, as long as they can still create emotions for the audience. But when they go abroad, the audience abroad does not know who Cong Phuong and Van Toan are, so the foreign audience does not have emotions for the players from HAGL Club.

Everything must be passed through professional value, and the professional value of every striker, according to global professional football standards, is the number of goals that striker scores.

No matter how well Van Toan runs, how well he creates space for his teammates around him, how well he sticks to the opponent, how versatile he is, it's almost meaningless if he doesn't score. In professional football around the world , there is no concept of a "striker who runs".

That is one of the big differences between Vietnamese football and the leading football teams in Asia and the world, besides the difference in physique and physical strength (Cong Phuong, Van Toan and Quang Hai are all at a disadvantage in this factor), the difference in culture, environment, lifestyle...

Of course, there are still cases of Vietnamese players succeeding on foreign fields in 2023, that is striker Huynh Nhu in the Lank FC women's team (Portugal).

But no one uses women's football or women's players as a measure of the success or failure of a football industry, because women's football is not considered professional football.

Therefore, Huynh Nhu's success at Lank FC cannot be considered a measure for the story of Vietnamese players going abroad in the past year!

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/the-thao/cau-chuyen-buon-cua-cac-cau-thu-bong-da-viet-nam-xuat-ngoai-20240108124631675.htm