Alfred Riedl: a talented strategist with no luck



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Coach Alfred Riedl for almost 10 years at the helm of the Vietnamese team had 6 times to help “Golden Dragon” win the right to play in the final, but people still do not understand why he lost.

Speaking of talent, coach Alfred Riedl is not inferior, not even superior, to many foreign coaches who have led the Vietnamese team. Thanks to his talents, VFF had appointed an Austrian strategist to the position of head coach “Golden Dragon team” three times, in the periods 1998-2000, 2003-2004 and 2005-2007. It’s a rare thing in the past, just unfortunate that Riedl hasn’t once reached the peak of glory.

The downside to soccer is that no matter how talented the coach is, but since he never won the championship in the most anticipated arena, he is still considered a career failure. People still remember how painful coach Pochettino was when he saw his student open the scoring against Liverpool in the Champions League final, but then let the opponent turn up the tide to win and be crowned on a full stage. gall.

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Coach Pochettino collapsed when he saw the home side lose to Liverpool in the Champions League final in 2018/19

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Tears rolled down the Argentine coach’s face after a bitter defeat

To the contrary, manager Jurgen Klopp, before becoming a hero in the prestigious Champions League arena in the 2018/19 season, shared the same bitterness as his colleague Pochettino when he failed in the race to win the championship. The Premier League was also that season against Man City.

The bitterness is that, of the team that is icy at the finish, but with only one or two failures, Liverpool lost to Man City in the championship race with just 2 points. That was the season Liverpool achieved an incredible score of 95 points, higher than previous champions in the Premier League, but it is still a shame to see rival Man City crowned.

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Coach Jurgen Klopp’s joy in helping Liverpool win the Premier League, and then 1 year later being crowned in the Premier League after 30 years of waiting.

But of course, the kind and bravery of coach Jurgen Klopp’s teachers was that, a year later, they defeated Man City himself to win the Premier League title after 30 years of waiting, even beating the opponent. 18 points, equivalent to 6 rounds. It was a spectacular rematch, to honor Jurgen Klopp’s worth for what he did with Liverpool.

That said, to see how coach Alfred Riedl experienced a “painful defeat” in the loss to Singapore in the 1998 Tiger Cup final at My Dinh field. Before that, it was the Austrian strategist who got the fans excited about the Vietnamese team when he first defeated Thailand’s “great rival” in the semi-finals 3-0. When it comes to winning against “the big man” in Southeast Asia, but then losing to an underrated Singapore, the feeling of losing the match is hard to take in.

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Coach Alfred Riedl also experienced bitter failures when he led the Vietnamese team to the final six times.

But coach Alfred Riedl is different from coach Jurgen Klopp, or many of his colleagues are luckier than him, and after failure, success comes after failure. After finishing second at the 1998 Tiger Cup, the Austrian strategist had three more times to finish second at the 1999, 2003 and 2005 SEA Games. In 2007, after the Vietnamese team failed to pass the SEA Games qualification, Mr. Alfred Riedl was forced to resign, ending his career as leader of the “Golden Dragon team” ever since.

One question posed by experts is, what makes it so that coach Alfred Riedl can’t help Vietnamese soccer to be crowned in Southeast Asian stadiums, the AFF Cup and the SEA Games? With Riedl, Vietnamese soccer was not short of talented players, with names like Le Huynh Duc, Tran Minh Chien, Nguyen Hong Son, Duc Thang, then Pham Van Quyen, Cong Vinh … Star player system at the same time as Cong Vinh One year after taking over from Alfred Riedl, Coach Calisto has made history by helping the Vietnamese team win the 2008 AFF Cup for the first time.

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Alfred Riedl also owns the talented generations of Vietnamese football, the only thing is that he has never tasted the feelings of the victor at the peak of glory.

And even the current generation of Vietnamese players like Cong Phuong, Quang Hai … – compared to the talent of previous generations like Huynh Duc, Hong Son, Van Quyen, we don’t know “which cat bites”. – but coach Park Hang Seo helped the Vietnamese team win the AFF Cup to win the Sea Games.

Not only “overcoming the curse” in the “village pond” of Southeast Asia, coach Park Hang Seo also left a mark with the “huge” titles in the continental arena, such as reaching the Asiad 2018 semifinals, reaching Asiad’s quarter-finals. 2019, he won the 2018 Asian U-23 runner-up and is currently temporarily at the top of the qualifying group for the 2022 World Cup.

Compared to current coach Calisto or coach Park Hang Seo, coach Alfred Riedl is believed to be just a talented coach … unfortunately, under the leadership of coach Alfred Riedl, Vietnamese football is still black. Semi-grade stories tarnished, causing talents like Pham Van Quyen, Le Van Truong, Quoc Vuong … to get stuck in labor and lose their careers.

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Despite the failure in the AFF Cup and Sea Games, Vietnamese fans still respect and adore the Austrian coach for his contributions to Vietnamese football.

It was the Austrian strategist who had to make a shocking and immortal statement at the time, that “Vietnamese football builds houses from the roof.” That statement shows that, however talented he may be, he is not lucky enough to be supported, he is not given full decision-making power as a coach, so he always has to “fall before the gates of heaven.” That is why the title of “second king” has been associated with his 10-year career of dedication to Vietnamese soccer.

What happens is that in the hearts of Vietnamese football fans, he remains a foreign coach worthy of respect and worship.

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