Indicated Elephant Football, Vietnam U-19 National Team and Thailand U-19 National Team Threatened to be Expelled from the 2022 AFF U-19 Cup: Okezone Bola

IF proven to practice elephant football, Vietnam U-19 National Team and Thailand U-19 National Team threatened to be removed from AFF U-19 Cup 2022. The actions of these two teams on the final matchday of Group A of the 2022 AFF U-19 Cup which was held at the Madya Stadium, Jakarta, Sunday 10 July 2022, at night WIB, were well highlighted by Indonesian football fans.

From the start, the potential for flirting in the Vietnam vs Thailand match was huge. Because, if they play 1-1, 2-2 or so on, Vietnam and Thailand will qualify for the semifinals of the 2022 AFF U-19 Cup, regardless of the results obtained by the U-19 Indonesian National Team over Myanmar.

Vietnam and Thailand are entitled to qualify for the semifinals of the 2022 AFF U-19 Cup because they have a better head-to-head record than Indonesian U-19 National Team. Finally, the thing that most fans of the U-19 Indonesian National Team avoided happened.

When the Indonesian U-19 national team won 5-1 over Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand only played 1-1. At that time, Thailand went 1-0 up first through the action of Kroekphon Abram in the 71st minute.

Five minutes later, Vietnam equalized via Khuat Van Khang. After the score was 1-1, both teams had no intention of building an attack.

Even the Vietnamese players seemed to be playing the ball more in their defense area. At the same time, Thailand’s front players are also reluctant to press. Because of this, the manager of the U-19 Indonesian National Team, Endri Irawan, was furious.

He asked the AFF to investigate. If proven to be doing elephant football, Endri Irawan asked the AFF to disqualify Vietnam and Thailand.

“I didn’t see the game live Vietnam against Thailand, but I heard the news that the two teams did not attack each other in that match. If it’s fair play, both of them have to score goals and attack each other,” said Endri to the media crew, which was also attended by the MNC Portal Indonesia team.

“But it was not seen in the match, that’s the news I heard from friends at Madya, then I hope for an investigation from the AFF for the match. If according to AFF it is fair, please continue, if it is not fair, there needs to be consideration for the disqualification of the two teams (Vietnam U-19 and Thailand U-19),” added Endri.

The general chairman of PSSI, Mochamad Iriawan, is also ready to protest. If in the analysis carried out by PSSI today it is indicated that there is elephant football, PSSI will file an official protest to the AFF as the Southeast Asian Football Federation.

“We will discuss it first at PSSI. We will convey that we are quite disadvantaged,” said Mochamad Iriawan when met at the Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, quoting Antara.

“We will discuss it internally tomorrow (today). We will play back the match video and analyze it with several parties including the technical director before confirming whether we will file a protest,” concluded Mochamad Iriawan.

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