Mr. Park Hang Seo "missed" the position of head coach of the Indian national team

The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has just announced that it has found a replacement for coach Igor Stimac. Accordingly, AIFF appointed coach Manolo Marquez (55 years old, Spanish) as head coach of the Indian national team.

Coach Manolo Marquez has many years of experience in the Indian national championship and is currently leading Goa Club.

So,Coach Park Hang Seofailed to fulfill his wish to become head coach of a South Asian team, even though AIFF previously rated the former captainVietnam teamis one of the bright candidates.

Notably, in the list of more than 200 candidates for the position of head coach of the Indian national team, in addition to coach Park Hang Seo, there are also former coach of the Vietnamese national team Philippe Troussier, former coach of the Korean national team Jurgen Klinsmann, former coach of the Thai national team Winfried Schafer...

According to the plan, the Indian team will come to Vietnam to play a friendly match with the "Golden Star Warriors" next October. This friendly tournament will also have the participation of Lebanon.

Previously in September, the Vietnamese team planned to play friendly matches with Thailand and Russia (or Panama) to prepare for the AFF Cup 2024 with the goal of winning the championship. Coach Kim Sang Sik and his team were in the same group with Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Laos in the region's number 1 football tournament.