On the evening of March 26.3, the door to qualifying for the third round of the 3 World Cup was closed for the Vietnamese team. Coach Philippe Troussier and his students lost 2026-0 to Indonesia, widening the gap with their opponents to 3 points. In the context of only 4 matches remaining, the chance to continue is only theoretical.
The heavy loss to Indonesia at home was like a drop of water that overflowed the glass, extending the very sad statistics of the Vietnamese team. In just 1 year, Nguyen Quang Hai and his teammates bid farewell to the 2023 Asian Cup in disgrace with 3 losses and were eliminated in the group stage for the first time in history. Then with the most important goal called World Cup qualifying, Coach Troussier also failed.
Coach Troussier should resign
Even though it is in an easier group than 4 years ago (having to compete with 3 teams, instead of 4 teams), it also has a competitive advantage when each group selects up to 2 teams to enter the next round, but the Vietnamese team has won. personally throw away the advantage. For the first time in history, the Vietnamese team lost 3 consecutive matches to Indonesia. Those were all blank losses, not scoring any goals.
Looking more broadly, in the last 11 matches, the Vietnamese team lost 10 matches. Including 7 consecutive losses from the end of 2023 until now. The Vietnamese team also lost 7 consecutive matches in the second half of 2021, but that was when coach Park Hang-seo and his team had to meet very strong teams in Asia such as Japan, Australia, Oman or Saudi Arabia. . As for coach Troussier, 7 consecutive losses include defeats against Indonesia (3 matches) or Kyrgyzstan.
Besides the poor results of losing in both of the most important campaigns, Coach Troussier also failed to build a controlled playing style to "approach the top 10 in Asia and world class" as he promised. The French military leader even made many mistakes in using people, favoring his favorite students, being slow and using the wrong fighting method.
However, coach Troussier rarely admits his mistakes. He often blamed his students when declaring: "The players must take responsibility, I cannot play for them" after the 0-1 defeat against Indonesia on the evening of March 21.3. Mr. Troussier also defended the decision to use people, even though in many past matches, many pillars were ignored by the French coach, including Quang Hai and Tan Tai.
Tien Linh's disappointment in the loss to Indonesia
In terms of youth teams, coach Troussier helped U.23 Vietnam pass the Asian qualifiers, but that was also the only mark. Actually, this is not a "trophy", because U.23 Vietnam has reached the Asian finals four times in a row, from 4 to present.
At the SEA Games playground, Mr. Troussier's U.22 Vietnam was eliminated in the semi-finals (also by... Indonesia), only winning the bronze medal - a worse achievement than the two gold medals won previously.
Finally, the Vietnamese team's football playing quality has not really been upgraded as coach Troussier promised. He wasted the quality resources of Vietnamese football, and his commitment to progress in playing style was almost non-existent.
A "disaster" dynasty, VFF had to say goodbye to Coach Troussier before it was too late.
