The Vietnam Football Federation has said the national team head coach had to bear all responsibility for Vietnams unexpected loss to Indonesia last Saturday and thus had to resign.
The Vietnam Football Federation April 26 held a ceremony to sign the contract with Alfred Riedl and officially appointed him head coach of the Vietnamese national football team.
Portuguese Henrique Calisto Monday signed a contract with the Vietnam Football Federation to become head coach for the Vietnamese national football team, replacing Austrian Alfred Riedl stepping down last December.
V-League club Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA) former head coach Nguyen Huu Thang will likely be arrested Tuesday while the hunt is still on to track down former footballer Nguyen Phi Hung.
The Vietnam Football Federation this week has accepted the application of English coach Bob Houghton for the national head coach posting, said VFF vice chairman Tran Duy Ly.
The former head coach of Vietnams national team has promised to take Vietnam to the top at a major football tournament within four years if he is offered the position of head coach.
Vietnams national football team now faces a major challenge due to the lack of qualified players following many injuries during the training sessions and the VFF punishment bans.
The chances are equal for Vietnams two candidates for the national football head coach job, said a top football official Monday.
Vietnams head coach Alfred Riedl needs two weeks of annual leave in early September for a kidney transplant leaving the Vietnam Football Federation to find a replacement.
Polands best young footballer two years running, a nineteen-year-old Vietnamese midfielder, has been cut from the national U-23 side in Vietnam, according to the head coach July 22.
