Coach Mai Duc Chung returns to lead the Vietnamese women's team

After working with the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF), Coach Mai Duc Chung agreed to return to lead the Vietnam women's team. with a nearly 2-year contract to prepare for the 2025 SEA Games in Thailand.

Although the Vietnamese women's team will not have any major tournaments in 2024, coach Mai Duc Chung still has important tasks such as a training trip to Europe in June, monitoring and searching for new players in the national championship...

In fact, VFF has been trying to find a head coach to replace Mr. Mai Duc Chung, but for many reasons, the captain's seat of the Vietnamese women's team is still vacant. On the day of introducing new head coach Kim Sang Sik of the U23 team and the Vietnamese national team, Mr. Chung was also present.

The return of coach Mai Duc Chung is good news for the Vietnamese women's team. The Vietnamese women's players still see Mr. Chung as a father figure, always with respect and affection.

However, this return of coach Mai Duc Chung also faces many difficulties because the Vietnamese women's team needs to be replaced when the old generation has passed their peak. In addition, the goal of defending the SEA Games gold medal also faces great challenges from the progress of the Philippines thanks to the policy of naturalizing players, besides familiar strong opponents Thailand, Myanmar...

Coach Mai Duc is the most successful coach in Vietnamese women's football. He led the Vietnamese women's team to 6 SEA Games championships (4 consecutive times recently), won the 2019 AFF Cup, ranked 4th in the 2014 Asiad and especially won the right to participate in the 2023 World Cup.