Recently, the Southeast Asia U23 Football Championship held in Cambodia officially came to an end, and the Vietnamese youth army beat Thailand 1-0 and successfully won the cup. In the past, domestic fans and friends would not care about the so-called Southeast Asian championships, but it is interesting that the two teams that entered the final are the bitter masters of the national football team, Thailand once won 5-1 against the national football team, and Vietnam recently beat the national football team 3-1.
From the historic breakthrough into the round of 12, to the home defeat of the national football team, and then to the cup in the Southeast Asia U23 Championship, Vietnamese football can really be described as a step by step, down-to-earth and down-to-earth. It is particularly worth mentioning that most of the Vietnamese players participating in this U23 tournament are young players in the 2001 age group, that is, 20 years old and 21 years old, compared with the current situation of domestic players aged 20 or so, in the near future, if the two sides can play against each other, it is good.
In the past few years, the Vietnamese team has won the championship of all ages in Southeast Asia, and is a well-deserved "brother" in Southeast Asia. In contrast, the national football team has participated in the final of the U23 Asian Cup four times before, all of which have collapsed in the group stage. This year's U23 Asian Cup event is even more convenient, the Football Association for various reasons to consider the choice of withdrawal, did not participate in the preliminary stage of the competition. If there is a force majeure impact, but the national football charter flight abroad, closed training has not been affected at all, and for young players the most important U23 Asian Cup event, rare training opportunities, so wasted.
Regardless of the current situation of the national team, it is impossible to expect all the teenage young players to jump directly to the national team in the future, and the wave of U23 players is the main player of the national football team in the next few years, according to the current situation, the performance of the national team in the next few years will basically not achieve better results than now. Temporary defeats and temporary poor results can be understood and accepted, and the most terrible thing is such despair.