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'Meal'Vietnam national soccer team coach Kim Sang-sik (49) gained a strong ally, standing tall as a 'Vietnam national hero'
The Vietnamese Football Federation (VFF) announced on its official channel on the 10th (local time) that coach Lee Jung-soo (45) and coach Lee Woon-jae (52) were appointed as head coaches and goalkeeper coaches for Vietnam's A and U-23 teams, respectively.
"'VFF' is that coach Lee Jung-soo and coach Lee Woon-jae will do their best to assist coach Kim Sang-sik based on their abundant player and coaching experience and help Vietnam achieve good results.'"
As a result, this year's 'Sikma Division' will consist of head coach Kim Sang-sik, head coach Lee Jung-soo, coach and physical coach Yoon Dong-heon, and goalkeeper coach Lee Woon-jae. Former head coach Choi Won-kwon, who has assisted head coach Kim for the past year, broke up with the end of the contract. According to Vietnamese media, head coach Kim, Lee Jung-soo and coach Lee Woon-jae will expire in March 2026.
Coach Kim and coach Lee Jung-soo, who are four years old, have a long relationship. I played for the national team. He was a competitor and partner. In his team, he played for rival teams Jeonbuk and Suwon, respectively. In 2011, Jeonbuk, which head coach Kim belongs to, and coach Lee's Al-Sad (Qatar) clashed in the Asian Champions League final, and coach Lee won the cup at the time.
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| Kim Sang-sik, head coach of the Vietnamese national soccer team. |
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| 이운재 코치. Photo courtesy = Korea Professional Football Federation |
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| 이정수 코치. Photo courtesy = Korea Professional Football Federation |
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After retiring as an active player in 2018, Lee served as a coach at Dongguk University, general manager of Yongin City Football Center, coach Ho Chi Minh City, head coach of Suwon FC, and technical committee member (TSG) of the professional soccer federation. After stepping down as head coach of Jeonbuk during the 2023 season, he experienced Vietnamese soccer before Kim, who took over as head coach of the Vietnamese national team in May 2024. Coach Lee, who led Korea to the first round of 16 at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, will help Vietnam stabilize its defense as a defense expert.
Lee Woon-jae, a former goalkeeper coach, served as a goalkeeper coach in Jeonbuk led by head coach Kim from 2021 to 2023. In November last year, he signed a short-term contract as a goalkeeper coach for the Vietnamese national team and contributed to winning the Mitsubishi Electric Cup, called the 「Southeast Asia World Cup」 in January. 34-year-old goalkeeper Nguyen Dinh Chiu (Pai Phong), who led the team to win the ASEAN Cup, was boldly selected. Vietnam beat Thailand in the Mitsubishi Cup final for the third time in six years since the 2018 tournament led by former coach Park Hang-seo. Coach Kim, who wrote the history of Vietnamese soccer eight months after his inauguration, stood tall as a national hero through this tournament.
Unfortunately, Vietnam stopped its World Cup challenge for a while after failing to pass the second Asian qualifying round for the 2026 North-China World Cup. Coach Kim will now play again with the aim of advancing to the 2027 Saudi Arabia Asian Cup finals in January 2027 with the newly set 'Hohwa Coaches'. Vietnam will play the first Group F match against Laos in the third Asian Cup qualifying round at home on the 25th of next month. If you beat Laos, Malaysia, and Nepal in the same group and finish first in the group, you will get a ticket to the finals. The 33rd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Game), which will be held in Thailand in December, is also a competition that coach Kim cannot miss.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
