Shin Tae-yong Hopes The U-23 AFF Cup Will Be Removed Due To Loss

The U-23 Indonesian National Team coach for the U-23 AFF Cup, Shin Tae-yong. (Photo: Doc. PSSI)

JAKARTA - The coach of the Indonesian national team, Shin Tae-yong, expressed his surprising hope about the AFF U-23 Cup tournament. The South Korean coach wants the competition to be abolished.

This was revealed by Shin Tae-yong after overseeing the inaugural training of the U-23 national team at Field A, Senayan, Jakarta on Thursday, August 10 afternoon. Shin Tae-yong has a strong reason because according to him this agenda only harms the club.

"For the AFF Cup, through this interview I hope that there will be no more AFF U-23 tournaments because many 23-age players play in League 1 and many are in their respective core teams," said Shin Tae-yong.

"So with the AFF U-23 tournament, it actually harms the league and disrupts the development of football in a country," he continued.

Although he hopes that the AFF U-23 Cup will be abolished, the coach revealed the opposite thing related to the AFF U-20 Cup. STY said that the AFF U-20 Cup tournament is actually better to be intensified in order to increase the experience of young players.

"For (AFF Cup) aged 20 years, that's okay. Because they (young players) have to compete a lot and have experience in international tournaments, but for U-23 I hope there will be no more in the future," said Shin Tae-yong.