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U-23 Galatasaray and U-23 Santos interview

U-23 Viet Nam prepare for HCMC Challenge Cup: Counter-tactics against Galatasaray
Coach Hoang Van Phuc said that U-23 Galatasaray come from a more developed football country than he would apply suitable tactics against this strong opponent so that Viet Nam players can perform their best in this game
In the evening of September 25th, U-23 Viet Nam have started to train at Thong Nhat stadium in preparing for the game against U-23 Galatasaray. Viet Nam players are still unfamiliar with Vietnam’s weather, therefore our players still get back the best form. ” Players haven’t been back with their best form yet. Many of them get injury. Therefore, in this training day, U-23 Viet Nam mainly focuses on technique. Besides that, the duration for practicing lesson are shorten enough for players.” Coach Hoang Van Phuc said.
After playing in small group, Coach Phuc divides team into 2 teams for practicing attack and defense. At the end of lessons, two teams compete each others at two third of Thong Nhat stadium.While playing Van Quyet gets injury and leaves out for ice-compressing.
Answered about Van Quyet’s situation, Mr Phuc said:” He’s just got soft tissue injury, it’s not so serious, however that Quyet has been injuring before getting back Viet Nam we should put in consideration. At the present, I think he isn’t ready for aggressive competition on the pitch, and I don’t think we should take a risk with his present situation.” ” Among injuried footballers, Huy Hung more probably recovers for next two games. Hoang Thinh and Ngoc Hai need more time to recover.” Coach Hoang Van Phuc added.
About the opponents, Mr Phuc said: ” In my opinion, Though U-23 Galatasaray brings a young squad to Viet Nam, they are at the higher level than Viet Nam football. We practiced hard in tactics and counter-tactics against them so that U-23 Viet Nam have many chances to perform on the pitch.”
Yesterday evening, U-23 Galatasaray has come Ho Chi Minh City. In this morning ( 26-9), U-23 Viet Nam and U-23 Galatasaray will join in a journalists meeting at Grand hotel. The match between them will happen at 18h00 September 27th at Thong Nhat stadium. The price tickets range from 50.000 to 350.000 VND.
Truc Phuong
Schedule of U23 Viet Nam at Ho Chi Minh City Challenge Cup 2013

U-23 Viet Nam before Ho Chi Minh City Challenge Cup 2013: No gain without pain
Two games against U-23 Galatasaray and U-23 Santos will a high dose reagent for U-23 Viet Nam. After these matches, unqualified players will be forced to leave team and be replaced by new ones.
The training trip to Hungary was quite successful that Vietnamese players all have raised their physical strength as well as Coach Hoang Van Phuc had chances to try different tactical plans. However, Viet Nam’s opponents in Hungary were at level 2 or 3, Mr Phuc thus wants to reexamined his men’s ability through two next games against Santos and Galatasaray at Thong Nhat stadium.
Both U-23 Galatasaray ( Turkry) and U-23 Santos ( Brazil) come from developed football country. Especially, the one from Samba country, there are many level -1 players in line-up those were teammates with Neymar who has just joined Barcelona. Thus, this is hope to be the high dose reagent for Coach Hoang Van Phuc and players.
Mr Hoang Van Phuc asserted:” In this training trip to Hungary, players met all requirements. However they are not much strong. That’s the reason why I will continue to watch players in two next games at Thong Nhat stadium then I will give decision or injured players will also be replaced.”
Thus, if players want to play for national team, they have to speed up and show off their abilities in two next games. That’s the only way to receive high evaluation from Coach Hoang Van Phuc. While U-23 Viet Nam are practicing hard for those games. Specially, Santos players seem to be very eager to perform for Viet Nam football fans. They also made video clip to send hello to Viet Nam in Vietnamse. Both teams are in high motivation, these games are promised to be interesting games.
At the present, Hoang Thinh who has got injury will be absent from next games, remained players are received equal opportunities to show off.
Truc Phuong

Withdrawal for football in the 7th Ho Chi Minh City Games 2013
In the morning of 25th September, at headquarters of Ho Chi Minh Football Federation (HFF), the withdrawal for football in the 7th Ho Chi Minh City Games 2013.
This year will include 8 teams. All will be withdrawn to be divided into 2 groups: Group A: Dist.1, Phu Nhuan dist., Go Vap dist. and Binh Thanh dist.. Group B includes: dist.8, Tan Phu dist., dist.6, and dist.12. The rules of games will be applied as the rule of 11 players which are announced by HFF. Participants are Vietnamese at Ho Chi Minh City and taking part in from village, ward, district then being chosen intp local teams. The opening game will be taken place at 14h00 on Tao Dan pitch dist.1 between the hosts dist.1 and Binh Thanh dist.. The games will last from October 10th to 23rd,2013.
Dinh Vien

Messi defied Guardiola in front of Barcelona team-mates’
The Argentine star “humiliated” the former Barca boss in front of the whole squad, according to ex-New York Red Bulls coach Hans Backe
Lionel Messi deliberately went against the orders of his former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, according to ex-New York Red Bulls boss Hans Backe.
The 61-year-old has never previously had any direct association with Barca, but his tenure in charge of the Red Bulls coincided with the stays of Thierry Henry and Rafael Marquez, both of whom were Blaugrana players when the alleged incident occurred.
Backe told Sweden’s TV4 that Messi intentionally disobeyed instructions from Guardiola in front of the entire Barcelona squad before a game in 2009, though, he refused to reveal his source.
“It was three hours before the game when all the players were sitting and eating, and Messi said he wanted a can of coke,” he said.
“Guardiola replied that no player should drink cola three hours before a game.
“So Messi got up and left, returned a few minutes later with a can of cola and drank it right in front of Guardiola and the rest of the team.
“Imagine what would have happened when a player with the profile of Messi goes against the coach in this way?
“It was a war Guardiola could not win; it was impossible.”
According to Goal

Fatih Terim sacked as Galatasaray coach
The 60-year-old has been relieved of his duties with the Turkish club following a disappointing start to the campaign.
Fatih Terim has been dismissed as Galatasaray coach after being voted out by the board of directors, the club confirmed on Tuesday.
The 60-year-old, who recently took charge of the Turkey national team, was relieved of his duties following a disappointing start to the campaign in his third stint as coach of the club.
Gala president Unal Aysal had previously revealed his concern about Terim’s refusal to accept a two-year deal with the Turkish outfit in conjunction with his venture with the country’s national team.
“After Fatih Terim’s rejection of our two-year contract offer, the Galatasaray board have been obligated to find new solutions,” a club statement said.
“All these developments regarding this issue were harmful to our club and its values. Our board have a responsibility to preserve these values and transmit them to future generations.
“By force of this responsibility, in order to prevent our club from getting damaged more, the Galatasaray board decided to terminate Fatih Terim’s contract.
“We thank Fatih Terim for his contributions and we would like everyone to know that we will be proud of his future achievements with Turkish national team.”
Terim oversaw the signings of Didier Drogba and Wesley Sneijder which have so far yielded mixed results, given the expenditure on both players.
Gala have taken six points from four league games and suffered a 6-1 hammering in their Champions League Group B opener against Real Madrid at home, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a hat-trick.
Former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is an early candidate to replace Terim at the Turk Telecom Arena.
According to Goal

Lewandowski: I’m signing for Bayern in January
With his contract set to expire at the end of the season, the Poland striker has revealed that the new year will see him agree a deal to join Bavarians next summer
Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski has ended speculation over his future by revealing that he will join Bayern Munich on a free transfer in 2014.
The forward, 25, was linked heavily with a move away from Signal Iduna Park during the summer but was denied a move by the BVB hierarchy and forced to spend at least one more season under Jurgen Klopp.
The Bavarians have remained the favourites to sign the Pole, however, and following the Schwarzgelben’s 2-0 DFB-Pokal second-round win over 1860 Munich, Lewandowski confirmed that the Allianz Arena will be his destination and that he will sign a pre-contract in January to join next summer.
When asked if he would confirm his move to Pep Guardiola’s men in January by Sport1, he responded: “Yes, because then I can officially sign the contract.”
The Poland international has scored 80 goals in 149 appearances for Dortmund since joining from Lech Poznan in 2010 for an estimated €4.5 million.
According to Goal

U-19 Viet Nam attract mass media means
In the afternoon of September 23rd, all members of training board , U-19 Viet Nam team has landed Tan Son Nha airport- Ho Chi Minh. Coming back form Southeast Asian U-19 Football in Indonesia, our young players show an impressive performance, when organizers judge that Viet Nam has the most attractive playing style. Though we only rank second at this championship, U-19 Viet Nam receives warm welcoming from mass media means.
Coach Grachen answers briefly media’s question :” If we had played better, we should have scored in two official halves. There are 70 % of U-19 Viet Nam players are in 16 and 17 years of age. They are still young and we should look at the bright future in stead of the near result. And about the referee, I have no comment. He’s a part of the game. I and my players still send congratulations to the champions, they are braver than us in spot penalty. The last thing, I really appreciate with Viet Nam supporters, you surprised me right after landing at the air port.”
Though U19 Viet Nam only rank the second, we create a professional style with dignified playing which marked a young team from the S country. In the final game between Viet Nam and U-19 Indonesia, especially in the second half and 30 minutes of extra time, the hosts played fairly agressively. Moreover, the Thai Land referee missed many indonesian players’ fault, U19 Viet Nam still play with a professional style, they only concentrated in the game but opponents’ trick.
Coach Graechen and players have 2 days of rest, they will be back for practising for U19 Asian Championship qualifying. Viet Nam will be in group F together with Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, this group will be hold from October 3rd to October 7th at Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia).
Dinh Vien