King’s Cup: Would Alexander Dang miss this opportunity?

On May 5, Coach Park scheduled to embark on a trip to Europe to assess Alexander Dang, whose team (Nest Sotra) went through into the clash with Sandefjord. It came out a narrow 2 - 1 victory to the more powerful squad - Sandefjord who is nailing on the second spot on the standings.

Being thrown into the field in the starting line-up, Alexander Dang played enthusiastically and moved continually but still got stuck due to limiting ball possession.

Playing a striker role in the team-sheet, he was lack of supporting from the teammates, bringing about his unremarkable display.

Before being sent out in the 88th minute, Alexander Dang had left on the field his only noticeable moment in the 77th minute which was a shooting stopped by the opponent side’s defender.

Alexander Dang’s performance failed to persuade Coach Park

It came as no surprise for the failure as the Nest-Sotra’s rival was a stronger team. However, Alexander Dang’s performance failed to persuade Coach Park.

Based on a source, after the game, Coach Park had a short discussion with VFF that was Alexander Dang who is “to be needed more observe”.

Despite having a Vietnamese father - Mr. Dang Duy Hieu, Alexander Dang neither can speak Vietnamese nor have a Vietnamese nationality.

Mr. Dang Duy Hieu already sent the personal file of Truong (the Vietnamese name of Alexander Dang) to Mikail Adampour to carry on applying naturalization procedure 3 weeks ago.

There is one month left for King’s Cup 2019 to kick off. Vietnam NT starts to gear up at the beginning of this June. It is likely that Alexander Dang will not seal a ticket on the national line-up ahead of the tournament in Thailand.

He could get another chance ahead of 2022 World Cup Qualifiers, which requires that he has to launch massive bids to get a call from the Korean coach.