The information was announced by the Vietnam Football Federation on the afternoon of June 3.
With the recurrence of a foot injury, he officially said goodbye to the Vietnam national team. This is unfortunate for Phượng as he had just returned to the team after more than a year of absence, and was playing hard in the National First Division for Bình Phước Bright School.
In the last 5 days of the team’s training camp, Phượng could only participate in 2 sessions. He was present in the first session on May 30 but experienced pain, had to miss the sessions on May 31 and June 1, and then re-injured himself when he returned to the field on June 2.
Without Công Phượng, head coach Kim Sang Sik decided to call up