Nguyen Filip points out the 'cruel' truth about Vietnamese players

1. After 2 years of returning to his father's homeland to play football, the goalkeeper with Vietnamese-Czech blood gave a relatively in-depth, even quite frank assessment of Vietnamese football in a recent talk show.

Among them, Nguyen Filip's comment attracted attention, saying that Vietnamese colleagues are not ambitious and find it difficult to accept criticism from others, and are quickly satisfied with themselves instead of trying...

After 2 years of playing football in his father's homeland, Nguyen Filip has quite straightforward assessments of Vietnamese football.

2. What the goalkeeper who is currently playing for CAHN Club, and has played football in the Czech Republic for many years, commented is not wrong, typically the affirmation: There are only about 5 players who want to play football abroad .

This assessment by Nguyen Filip may surprise many people, but it is true. After the real trials or commercial cooperation in other football fields of Cong Phuong, Quang Hai, Van Hau, Xuan Truong... and then receiving failure, it seems to make Vietnamese players discouraged.

But this is just one reason, because according to Nguyen Filip, Vietnamese players also receive too high a salary as a star, so the desire to advance in their career gradually dries up.

3. Players cannot be blamed when they grow up in an environment where short-term results are prioritized. V-League is still not an ideal playground for training professionalism, the level or motivation for competition is quite low, so the lack of ambition and dislike of criticism are also inevitable consequences.

Many Vietnamese players do not dare to go out of their comfort zone.

Looking at developed football countries in the continent, even the closest like Thailand, we can see the difference when considering playing abroad as a goal. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, many players only set the goal of playing well in the V-League, having a house, having a car. That is enough.

Nguyen Filip not only pointed out the current situation, but also unintentionally pointed out the current development limits of Vietnamese football. When there is no mindset of reaching out to the world , when players are satisfied with the "safe zone", the World Cup dream is clearly not an easy problem to solve.

Although the frank words from Nguyen Filip (like many foreign coaches and experts) make Vietnamese football sad, it is necessary to recognize the core problem: If the mindset and culture of football - from the players, coaches to the club system - do not change, progress will only stop at the surface, and conquering the peak (like reaching the World Cup) becomes very vague.

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