Vietnam team is full of energy with Xuan Son, Hoang Hen and other U.23 talents

The Vietnam team promises to show an energetic appearance with Xuan Son, Hoang Hen and the rapidly maturing U.23 Vietnam team.

Vietnam team congratulates Xuan Son for scoring in his first match back after 10 months

Photo: Thuy An

The strong attack of the Vietnam team

The Vietnamese team has completed the mission, having 12 points after the last 4 matches against Laos and Nepal, keeping a 3-point gap with Malaysia before facing this opponent in the second leg at home.

That decisive match in March 2026 will be very attractive, not only because it is a battle of honor after Malaysian football was involved in a shameful scandal involving the falsification of documents to illegally naturalize 7 foreign players, but also because of the expected appearance of the Vietnamese team.

Xuan Son's official return to the field is expected to create a big boost for the Vietnamese national team's attack, especially when looking at the prospect that the Brazilian striker will have more than 3 months to practice and compete for Nam Dinh Club in domestic and international arenas.

Do Hoang Hen is one of the most creative midfielders in Vietnam.

Photo: Dong Huyen

Xuan Son's superior physique, strength and ability to press as hard as a "rock" will help the Vietnamese team's attack create a huge difference compared to opponents in the region who always lack strong yet skillful strikers.

But the attacking power in Mr. Kim's hands promises to be much stronger, when creative midfielder Hoang Hen will be eligible to play for the Vietnam national team after 2026.

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These two Brazilian players have a special understanding, without looking they can feel each other's movements and know what to do for each other, which will create a special resonance to maximize Xuan Son's destructive power, as Hoang Hen is one of the top creative midfielders of V-League in the past few years.

New blood U.23 Vietnam

Coach Kim Sang-sik wants the Vietnamese team to win all the matches in the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers.

Photo: Minh Tu

In addition to the renewed attack line with the reunion of the duo Xuan Son - Hoang Hen, the Vietnamese team will also be infused with new blood full of desire and potential from the U.23 Vietnam generation.

It's a pity that Van Truong is seriously injured, but U.23 Vietnam is still worth waiting for with potential names like Dinh Bac, Van Khang, Thanh Nhan, Le Viktor, Xuan Bac, Hieu Minh, Ly Duc, Trung Kien...

It is expected that the experience of fierce competition at the 33rd SEA Games and the 2026 AFC U23 Championship will be an important catalyst, helping the above "rising stars" mature quickly, to test themselves in the highest environment, the national team.

Coach Kim Sang-sik will give many opportunities to U.23 Vietnam's mainstays like Dinh Bac.

Photo: Minh Tu

The Vietnamese team can even be supplemented with promising factors if Patrick Le Giang, Gustavo... or young talent Lee William (born in 2007) successfully naturalizes. It can be said that we are facing a new wave of additions in all positions of the national team.

More importantly, those new elements all bring to the team professional quality and a strong desire to contribute, like the image of Hoang Hen expressing his "impatient" feeling while watching the Vietnamese team compete with Laos.

These things will further help coach Kim Sang-sik promote fair competition that has been implemented since before the AFF Cup 2024 until now, to further renew the Vietnamese team which currently has many players born in 1995 or earlier.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/doi-tuyen-viet-nam-day-nang-luong-voi-xuan-son-hoang-hen-va-cac-tai-nang-u23-185251121185814641.htm