Vietnam team arrives in Korea, preparing to play former Asian champion
Báo Dân trí•23/11/2024
After a 3.5-hour flight, the Vietnamese team arrived in Busan at 6:30 a.m. today (November 23) local time. The team then went to Gyeongju, the training location for the next 10 days.
In Gyeongju, coach Kim Sang Sik and his team stayed at the Kensington Resort Hotel, taking the opportunity to rest and recover their physical condition to prepare for the first training session, which took place at 4:00 p.m. the same day.
Team members complete immigration procedures at Gimhae Airport (Busan) (Photo: VFF).
Currently, Korea is starting to move into winter. Although it is sunny, the weather is still quite cold. This is also in the calculation of the coaching staff to ensure the highest efficiency for the training plan. Accordingly, in the morning, the temperature is low, the team mainly trains physically on the artificial turf field in the covered gymnasium. In the afternoon, the team will strengthen their techniques and tactics on the natural turf field, located about 15 minutes by bus from the hotel. According to the plan, during the training period in Korea, the Vietnamese team will have three practice matches with the "blue team" arranged in order of increasing difficulty to serve the expertise of the coaching staff.
The Vietnamese team will play a friendly match with coach Kim Sang Sik's old club, Jeonbuk Motors (Photo: K-League).
Specifically, in the first warm-up match, the team will meet Ulsan Citizen Club of K-League 3. In the next two matches, the team will meet Daegu FC and Jeonbuk Motors, who are playing in K-League 1. Jeonbuk Motors once dominated Korean football and won the Asian championship. This is also where coach Kim Sang Sik used to be the head coach, before coming to work in Vietnam. He helped Jeonbuk Motors win the Korean national championship. Coach Kim Sang Sik highly appreciated the two matches against Daegu FC and Jeonbuk Motors. He hopes that these will be quality tests to perfect the squad and playing style before entering the competition at the AFF Cup 2024.
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