JAKARTA - The coach of the Indonesian national team, Shin Tae-yong, was attacked by Vietnamese netizens because of his uploads on Instagram. However, this actually creates something very rare.

Fans Malaysia and Indonesia unite, support each other. They both defended Shin who uploaded a video on Sunday, January 8.

In the upload, Shin highlighted the action of Vietnam's player, Doan Van Hau, who was found to have carried out a brutal tackle against Dendy Sulistyawan in the first leg of the 2022 AFF Cup semifinals, a few days ago.

In the same upload, Shi Tae-yong also displayed a video clip when Van Hau participated in one of Malaysia's players in the group stage match. Like in the match against Indonesia, Van Hau did not get sanctions from the referee for his actions.

The South Korean coach urged the referee to be more observant in leading the match.

''The players are not allowed to ''try the players'' have been made to sink because the referee,'' wrote STY as a description of his upload.

''Wasit and the players must play the same fair. The same and I hope that there will be no more incidents like this," the article continued.

Shin Tae-yong's upload immediately drew attention. He received an "attack" from a Vietnamese national team fan.

The comments column for Shin's upload was also crowded by Indonesian netizens who got hot because Vietnamese netizens seemed to attack the coach.

''Shin used dirty methods to provocation Van Hau in tomorrow's match. Shin is not accepted in Vietnam,' wrote one user from Vietnam.

Comments from supporters of the Vietnam national team then received replies from Indonesian netizens. However, not only that, but Shin Tae-yong was also widely defended by Malaysian netizens.

Instead, they sided with the South Korean coach because they had revealed the truth and participated in praying for the victory of the Garuda Squad in the second leg.

"Support your coach from Malaysia. It has been proven that the number 5 is playing really hard. Hopefully Indonesia will win again today. Hopefully the prayers of the wronged people will be answered, amen," said the account @alifda***l

"Hi I'm from Malysia. Thank you coach STY! this is the truth," said another.

"Thank you coach for your voice, greetings from Malaysia," @malaya ****l

"Thank you coach.. I'm from Malaysia.. greetings, don't let Vietnam disturb the careers of Malaysian and Indonesian players," @4jmi.**n.


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