Thus, after the end of the fourth round of V.League 2023, the tournament will take a 45-day break, until April 6 to return. After playing rounds 5, 6, 7, V.League 2023 again paused until May 19. The tournament still has a break, from June 7 to June 23, only to complete the last 2 rounds of phase 1. There are many complaints about this interruption of the tournament, about the impact. its to the performance of the team and each player.
The upcoming 45-day break is essential for CAHN Club (red shirt). Photo: VPF.
In order to achieve a state of athletic fitness when entering a tournament, or roughly speaking, a performance drop, each team needs to calculate and have a training plan suitable to the nature of the tournament, with a time budget. preparation, as well as specific forces. The players will go through stages such as heavy training, physical training, tactical training, and friendly kicks. The next stage is to reduce the volume of movement, causing the players to fall into a state of “starvation”, and finally, exercises with light intensity, short time and high speed to warm up before entering the tournament. With a short or long preparation time, professional coaches can have specific plans and methods to build and maintain a state of sports fitness for their players.
For example, the period between two matches in a tournament, each team has a short-term plan but with its very specific solutions to help the players recover as quickly as possible, to may be in the best athletic state for the next match. The detailed solutions are applied differently to each player in the team, depending on the physical status and age difference of each player in the team.
Or as in professional football, football clubs have to participate in many tournaments at the same time, from domestic championships to national cups, and continental tournaments. At that time, their schedule was very tight, their preparation was also very complicated. They must have detailed plans for maintaining the overall performance of the team, the performance of each player, and supporting the head coach in this is a team of assistant coaches, sports doctors, nutritionists, etc. nursing and nursing staff.
That said, although any interruption of any tournament is undesirable for both participating teams and organizers, it is not a problem for V.League 2023 to be interrupted as planned above. Too big of a deal for a professional football team. Teams can adapt and they have methods to adapt to this reality.
Dong A Thanh Hoa is not satisfied when V.League 2023 is interrupted for too long because they are in high form. Photo: Thanh Hoa FC.
However, the impact of this interruption in the V.League is not the same for each team. Saying is objective “Curve eats curved, straight eats straight”, but this case in V.League is not “Loss of a village, a profit of a village”. At the expense of this interruption are the teams that are having a good series of achievements. They are having an exciting competitive spirit, are in good form as well as winning inertia. For them, the longer this chain of states lasts, the more beneficial it is. And of course, when interrupted, they will be the ones who complain the most.
Of course, the teams are in the opposite state, typically the CAHN Club. They have a group of good players, good coaches, but maybe because the squad has not yet been assembled, after a crisp victory against a Binh Dinh that has not yet heated up, is a series of wobbly matches. This time off of V.League is very valuable for CAHN Club and some other teams. They will have more time to stabilize the squad as well as help the spirit of competition recover. Naturally, they will be less likely to complain about this interruption.
On the organizers side, in addition to the reason for the break to prioritize focusing on U20 and U22 on duty, V.League 2023 is considered a pivotal season to implement the plan to change the time frame of the organization. organization for the club level tournament in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) competition system, starting in the fall of the previous year and ending in the summer of the following year. In addition, this break is also used for the referees to attend the training course to keep up with the schedule for the application of VAR in Vietnam as planned.
Obviously, on the part of the organizers, the interruption of the tournament like this is also something they do not want. In a way, the organizers and the teams are partners in the tournament, and as partners, they always need to understand each other.