Mai Duc Chung - From a "stunt" coach to a hero of Vietnamese football

In particular, the culmination of coach Mai Duc Chung is the ticket to the 2023 World Cup with the Vietnamese women's team.

Coach Mai Duc Chung is the "soul" of the women's team and the feat that Vietnamese women's football has achieved. Having today's success, Mr. Mai Duc Chung has devoted his entire life to football.

From the striker of the General Department of Railways team

Coach Mai Duc Chung was born in 1951 in Ngoc Ha flower village, Hanoi. This year, at the age of 71, he is one of the players in the "golden" generation of Vietnamese football for a while.

Passionate about football from a young age, when growing up, Mr. Mai Duc Chung became a professional player playing for the Hanoi Car Club, the General Department of Railways, the Vietnamese national team... With his height outstanding compared to that of the National Football League. Chung often plays in the position of striker and midfielder.

Coach Mai Duc Chung

Talking about his friend, football expert Vu Manh Hai (former player of The Cong club) shared: "In the 70s and 80s of the last century, I played at The Cong club, and Mai Duc Chung played at the club. General Department of Railways We meet weekly on the football field and sit together after each game.

Mai Duc Chung plays a good striker, with outstanding height, he has scored many goals with his head for the General Department of Railways. In addition to playing good football, Chung is also famous for being a gentle person, living a very kind life, so everyone loves him."

Former player Le The Tho said that coach Mai Duc Chung is his generation of students and juniors in Vietnamese football. Although he is not the best person in Vietnamese football, Mr. Chung plays diligently and is always loved by everyone because of his rare gentle and gentle personality.

To the hero of Vietnamese women's football

After finishing his playing career, coach Mai Duc Chung switched to coaching and he coached the men's football team.

There was a period when he was the head coach of Becamex Binh Duong club and brought this team to the semi-finals of the 2009 AFC Cup - the best achievement that a club in Vietnam had at that time. He also led clubs Thanh Hoa, Navibank Saigon...

Whenever the U22 team or the national team is called up, he is ready to go on duty as an assistant or head coach. In 2008, coach Mai Duc Chung led the Vietnam U22 team to win the Merdeka Cup in Malaysia.

Many times when Vietnamese football is difficult, Mr. Chung is ready to play the role of a "stunt" so that the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) can find a new coach. And every time coach "stunt" Mai Duc Chung also successfully completed the assigned task.

But the biggest success with coach Mai Duc Chung is in the role of head coach of the Vietnamese women's football team.

Chung has been in love with women's football since 1997 when he led the Vietnamese women's team to win the first bronze medal in history at the 1997 SEA Games held in Indonesia. Of the 6 SEA Games gold medals won by Vietnamese women's football, there are 4 gold medals led by coach Mai Duc Chung (2003, 2005, 2017, 2019).

In addition, he also brought the Vietnamese women's team to the top 4 of Asiad 2014, won the AFF Cup 2019. The ticket to today's historic World Cup of Vietnamese women's football was brought back by a talented, humble and talented coach. strangely gentle Mai Duc Chung.

The heart of "father Chung"

"Father Chung" is the word that many generations of Vietnamese women's team players have used to call coach Mai Duc Chung. Former national player Ngoc Cham said that coach Mai Duc Chung is the one who takes care of the players, teaches them how to kick the ball and is the soul in every victory of Vietnamese women's football.

In an interview with the press, coach Mai Duc Chung once said: "I have no dream but for female players to get a job and get married after retiring. Follow the football career of their grandchildren. suffered a lot, had to sacrifice everything, but after retiring from their careers, many children did not have a happy and stable economic life.

I hope that benefactors and businesses pay more attention to life so that female players can have less trouble."

Former famous player Vu Manh Hai shared: "Vietnamese football must thank Mr. Mai Duc Chung because he is a talented coach with rare virtue. The State needs to have worthy rewards for the great contributions that he has made. Mr. Chung brought back Vietnamese football.In Vietnam, no other coach can bring so many achievements.

The achievement to the World Cup of the Vietnamese women's team is a great inspiration for the people of the country. Just like Coach Park Hang Seo has a predestined relationship with men's football, Mai Duc Chung is a lifelong devotee of football, especially women's football.

After winning tickets to the 2023 World Cup, coach Mai Duc Chung said he had turned 71 years old and it was time to rest with his family and reunite with his children and grandchildren. He will continue to lead the Vietnamese women's team until the end of the 31st SEA Games with the goal of defending the gold medal at home in May.

Coach Mai Duc Chung has made history with Vietnamese women's football with tickets to the 2023 World Cup.

After that, if possible, he will work with VFF to find a good coach for the Vietnamese women's team and bring the team to the 2023 World Cup. The biggest dream of him and Vietnamese football is to be present at the World Cup. , other than that he wished for nothing else.

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