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Manager Park Hang-seo of Vietnam's national soccer team received a second-class labor medal from the Vietnamese government. It is the first foreign leader in the Vietnamese sports world.

This is Ha Seong-ryong.

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Director Park Hang-seo was awarded the Second-Class Labor Medal for the achievement of leading Vietnam's gold medal in 60 years at the Southeast Asian Games last December.

At the medal award ceremony held late in the aftermath of Corona 19, Director Park was the first to be honored as a Vietnamese foreign leader.

[Park Hang-seo/Vietnamese national football team manager: It means that he wants to make more efforts for the development of Vietnamese football, and he feels a great sense of responsibility.]

After taking the Vietnamese baton three years ago, coach Park wrote a new history of Vietnamese football and affixed a medal at every tournament he went out. It.

In 2018, as the first runner-up in the Asian Championships under 23 years old, he was awarded a third-class medal by dyeing all of Vietnam red.In the same year, he received a friendship medal by winning the Suzuki Cup in 10 years following the first semifinal advance to the Asian Games.

Last year, we collected our third medal for remarkable achievements such as advancement to the Asian Cup quarterfinals, Qatar World Cup 2nd qualifier undefeated march, and Southeast Asian Games victory.

In the aftermath of Corona 19, coach Park, who recently convened the 22-year-old national team and started training, pledged not to stop challenging next year.

[Park Hang-seo/Vietnam national football team manager: (Corona 19) We will try our best to overcome the difficult times together and deliver a lot of good news to Vietnam next year.]

(Video editing: Eunjin Choi)