According to a source from Dan Viet, right after closing the contract with Coach Park Hang-seo, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) quickly reached an agreement with Coach Troussier. Specifically, the contract between the two parties has a term of 3 years. The salary of the French military leader is said to be about 2 million USD/year, equivalent to 48 billion/12 months, meaning 4 billion/month. This salary will be paid by 2 major sponsors of VFF.
It is expected that this weekend, coach Troussier will return to Hanoi and at the beginning of next week, put pen to paper to sign a contract with the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF), officially becoming the head coach of Vietnam.
Mr. Troussier’s salary is definitely higher than the figure of 128,000 USD/month, which is more than 3 billion VND/month that he received during the two years leading the U19 team in Vietnam.
High salary, so the task of coach Troussier is also very heavy. Specifically, he will have to help Vietnam U23 defend the gold medal at the 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia, help the Vietnamese team pass the group stage of the 2023 Asian Cup, and continue to participate in the third qualifying round of the World Cup (2026). , thereby having the best preparation for the ambition to win tickets to the World Cup finals 2030.
In fact, before accepting the invitation to lead Vietnam, coach Philippe Troussier used to take on the role of technical director at PVF as well as lead the U19 Vietnam team in 2018. During that time, the French strategist once shared about the dream of the World Cup of Vietnamese football.
“To achieve the World Cup goal, it is necessary to have a strategy for the youth, give them the opportunity to rub them with a minimum of 40 matches a year with each player. After evaluating, I have a list of about 100 players born from 2001 to 2004 have enough capacity to realize that goal,” said the French strategist.
Nguyen Van Truong is still making very fast progress.
That was the statement of coach Philippe Troussier when he took over as head coach of Vietnam U19 in 2018. And he did exactly what he said. In 2018, the French strategist worked with a group of players born from 2001 – 2002 and fought in the Asian U19 qualifiers taking place in Ho Chi Minh City and helped Vietnam U19 win the right to play in the finals after the match. 0-0 draw against Japan U19. However, the tournament was later canceled due to the epidemic. And in his final period in U19 Vietnam, this French coach continued to have the opportunity to work with players born in 2003 – 2004 but had not yet attended an official tournament.
Until now, the players born in 2001 – 2002 that coach Philippe Troussier once led are gradually maturing like Tien Long, Van Tung, Van Khang, Cong Den, Khac Luong… While the 2003 – 2004 generation is still is continuing to develop under the guidance of coach Hoang Anh Tuan – a very cool guy in training young people.
In the last 2 seasons, young players are also gradually being given the opportunity to play in the V.League. That will be the basis for coach Philippe Troussier to continue implementing his unfinished project before.