Coach Popov: Ambition to conquer all titles with The Cong Viettel

Recruiting coach Popov, Viettel 's The Cong team sends a strong message to opponents

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Coach Popov's ambition at The Cong Viettel

On April 27, The Cong Viettel Club officially announced a contract until the end of the 2026-2027 season with Coach Velizar Popov, replacing Coach Nguyen Duc Thang as Technical Director in charge of youth training.

Coach Velizar Popov is considered a talented and individualistic coach. From 2023, he is the most successful coach in Vietnam with a double of the National Cup 2023, 2023 - 2024 and the Vietnam Super Cup in the 2 seasons of 2023.

At the new team, Mr. Popov emphasized: "The Cong Viettel is one of the most traditional teams in Southeast Asia and Vietnam. This is an opportunity for me to take a new step in my career. When working in such a team, I always have the right to dream of the highest goals, which is to win every tournament.

Khuat Van Khang (right) has had 5 goals and 5 assists this season.

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I like attacking football and putting pressure. Of course, at this stage with only 6 rounds left, making drastic changes is not easy, but I will help the players give their all on the pitch and the fans will be proud of the team's style of play."

Obviously, The Cong Viettel and Coach Popov have met at the common point of ambition to conquer. Whether the army team can transform in the last 6 rounds of V-League 2024 - 2025 remains to be seen, but it will certainly be an important stepping stone for them to aim for the 2025 - 2026 season with the highest goal of winning the championship.

How will The Cong Viettel transform?

Will The Cong Viettel become stronger with coach Popov?

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Mr. Popov has made a great revolution at Thanh Hoa Club. He has gathered quite a modest material with unknown players into a cohesive, combative and very difficult to defeat team.

Statistics show that in the last 2 seasons, Thanh Hoa Club has always been at the top of Vietnam in terms of ability to press, surround and disrupt the opponent's playing style, becoming a formidable challenger to all the big teams.

Now that he has arrived at The Cong Viettel, the Bulgarian coach has been arranged a bigger stage, equipped with better materials and working conditions to satisfy his ambitions to conquer the V-League front.

Will coach Popov reduce referee reactions at The Cong Viettel?

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Over the past few years, The Cong Viettel has always been famous as one of the leading youth training centers in Vietnam. Even though Hoang Duc has left, the 2022 V-League champion still owns a series of Vietnamese players such as Tien Dung, Van Khang, Duc Chien, Tien Anh, Thanh Binh...

In addition, The Cong Viettel's potential is very deep with a young star squad of Huu Thang, Cong Phuong, Tuan Tai, Manh Dung, Manh Hung, Nhat Nam... who have been through many national youth teams with the highest level being the U.23 Vietnam team.

In addition, Mr. Popov will have a very abundant budget at The Cong Viettel to have quality additions to complete the squad that already has talent, identity and cohesion. But at the same time, people also wonder whether this personality coach will reduce the famous habit of reacting to referees at Thanh Hoa Club?

With such a strong foundation, we can expect that The Cong Viettel's technical style of play will be effectively supplemented with the steel and fiery fighting spirit of Coach Popov. At that time, the army team will become the leading candidate for the championship next season.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/hlv-popov-tham-vong-cung-the-cong-viettel-chinh-phuc-moi-danh-hieu-185250428121548861.htm