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Malaysia U-23 National Team Handled by Former Barcelona Coach After Losing in the 2022 AFF U-23 Cup? : Okezone Ball

LOSS Of 2022 AFF U-23 Cup, Malaysian National Team U-23 will be handled by former coach Barcelona, Pau Marti Vicente? The rumors circulated after Brad Maloney’s Malaysia U-23 national team was destroyed in the 2022 AFF U-23 Cup.

Malaysian football fans are worried that if Brad Maloney continues to coach the Malaysia squad at the 2022 U-23 Asian Cup which will take place in Uzbekistan on June 1-19 2022, the Malaysia U-23 national team will be completely destroyed.

(Brad Maloney (center) failed to lift Malaysia’s achievements in the 2022 AFF U-23 Cup)

Especially in the 2022 U-23 Asian Cup, the U-23 Malaysian national team is part of the Hell group. The Malaysia U-23 national team is in the same group as South Korea and the two giants of Southeast Asia, Thailand and Vietnam.

However, the former coach of the Malaysia U-23 national team, Ong Kim Swee, did not agree if Brad Maloney was replaced with Pau Marti Vicente. He considered Pau Marti Vicente not mature enough to know Malaysian football.

At the same time, the 2022 U-23 Asian Cup will roll over the next three months. Preparation is considered very tight if you have to change coaches.

For those who don’t know, Pau Marti Vicente is the assistant coach of the Malaysian national team from South Korea, Kim Pan-gon. Kim Pan-gon himself was only introduced last week as the coach of the Malaysian national team.

Before becoming assistant coach to Kim Pan-gon, he served as assistant coach at Barcelona B. Even in 2018 when he served as assistant to Garcia Pimienta, Pau Marti Vicente helped Barcelona U-19 win the UEFA Youth League or the 2017-2018 junior Champions League.

Pau Marti Vicente

(Pau Marti Vicente helps Barcelona win the 2017-2018 Junior Champions League)

“I’m not saying Pau Marti Vicente isn’t good. However, he has not been in our country for a month, ”said Ong Kim Swee, quoting from the Malaysian media, Harimau Malaya.

“He doesn’t know about the football development program in our country. Does he know the football system in our country if the FAM suddenly appoints Pau Marti Vicente to replace Brad Maloney,” asked Ong Kim Swee.

Ong Kim Swee still believes in the quality of Brad Maloney. Moreover, the Malaysia U-23 national team players who played in Jakarta 2022 AFF U-23 Cup not the best squad. With the best squad, Brad Maloney managed to lift the achievements of the Malaysia U-23 National Team. Brad Maloney is a figure who qualified Malaysia to the 2022 U-23 Asian Cup.

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