National men’s football coach visits disadvantaged students in Phu Tho
Head coach of the national men’s football team Park Hang-seo met with more than 1,000 students in Viet Tri city of the northern province of Phu Tho on May 9.
Head coach of the national men’s football team Park Hang-seo (R) shakes hands with the students (Photo: VNA)
Phu Tho (VNA) – Head coach of thenational men’s football team Park Hang-seo met with more than 1,000 students inViet Tri city of the northern province of Phu Tho on May 9.
The event formed part of the “Give a dream”programme initiated by the coach from the Republic of Korea (RoK), to provideequipment and support for disadvantaged children across the country to pursue theirpassion for football.
Various gifts were presented to needystudents in Phu Tho and the neighbouring province of Tuyen Quang.
Coach Park also joined a football trainingsession and played friendly matches with the students afterwards.
Since he became head coach of the men’snational and U23 football team, the RoK coach has helped Vietnamese footballgain historic achievements, namely as the runner-up of the Asian FootballConfederation (AFC) U23 Championship in 2018, one of semi-finalists of 2018Asian Games, and the winner of the AFF Suzuki Cup later that year.
Vietnam also entered the quarterfinals ofthe 2019 Asian Cup and most recently, the U23 squad won all of its matches atthe qualifying round of the 2020 AFC U23 Championship.
The national team will compete at theKing’s Cup in Thailand from June 5-8 while the U23s will play a friendlyagainst Myanmar on June 7 in Hanoi. –VNA
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Head coach of the national men’s football team Park Hang-seo (R) shakes hands with the students (Photo: VNA) 
