2023 is a year of unpleasant play of Vietnamese athletics. Vietnamese athletes let Thailand regain the first throne of the whole delegation at the 32nd SEA Games. At ASIAD 19, Vietnamese athletics expect to be able to win medals in some content. However, when the Ky Asia was closed, Vietnam had no athletics medal.
In addition to having no medals in the Asian Arena, Vietnam Athletics is also having difficulty in winning tickets to the Olympic Games. At the present time, the achievements of the Vietnamese athletes currently have no one reached the standard threshold A. The goal of winning tickets directly attended the Olympics, so it is even more difficult.
Facing that situation, the Vietnamese athletics team is looking for a plan to hire a foreign expert to work. So far, Vietnamese athletics often invite experts from Eastern Europe. That trend is more likely to continue, when the coach coming to Vietnam can be an Ukrainian.
In the past, Vietnamese athletics witnessed many foreign experts coming to work. One of them is Mr. Vladimir Hristov Simeonov, coach Quach Thi Lan winning gold medal ASIAD 2018. Previously, Vietnamese athletics had an excellent German expert, Mr. Karl Gunter Lange.
In fact, athletics is a sport with many different competition content. Coaches, foreign experts, usually only in charge of a few content are their strengths. With Karl Gunter Lange, he has a professional and long-term running training (800-3,000m). Meanwhile, Mr. Vladimir Hristov Simeonov specializes in training 400m and 400m fence.
