Head coach of Viet Nam’s national football team Park Hang-seo has called 27 players to prepare for the upcoming match against Thailand in the Asian zone’s second qualifying round for the World Cup 2020.

Members of Viet Nam's national football team in a match of King's Cup 2019 in Thailand in June (Photo: VNA)

The Korean coach continued to put his belief in successful footballers. Most of them are from V.League 1 champions Ha Noi FC and Hoang Anh Gia Lai.

Meanwhile, new faces include defenders Lam Anh Quang from Nam Dinh, Nguyen Huu Tuan (HCM City FC) and Do Thanh Thinh (SHB Da Nang), and forward Ha Minh Tuan (Quang Nam FC).

Most of the players will convene in Ha Noi on 26 August while those of Ha Noi FC will arrive three days later as the team will play Turkmenistan’s Altyn Asyr in the return leg of the AFC Cup 2019 Inter-Zone semi-finals.

The Vietnamese squad will leave for Thailand on 1 September to prepare for the match against the hosts on 5 September.

Park on  22 August also announced members of the U22 team for a friendly match against China’s U22 squad, which is slated for 8 September in Hubei province of China.

It will be the first official international friendly of the team in preparation for the 30^th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 30) in the Philippines later this year.

Viet Nam’s U22 team will gather in Ha Noi for training from 26 August and travel to China on 6 September.

(Source: VNA)