SEA Games 2023 Schedule And Prediction Of Football Drawing

The U-22 Indonesian national team for the 2023 SEA Games. (Doc. PSSI)

YOGYAKARTA The Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) is a multi-sport event that is staged every two years and involves 11 Southeast Asian countries. The 11 countries are Thailand Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines, and Timor Leste.

Well, in this article, the 2023 SEA Games Schedule will be discussed. For football, the draw will be done early.

The 2023 SEA Games schedule will be held on May 5-17. The biggest sporting event in Southeast Asia will be held in Cambodia.

Especially for football sports, group division will be carried out earlier, namely on April 5, 2023.

This information was conveyed by the Indonesian U-22 National Team Coach (Timnas), Indra Sjafri. He said that the draw for the Cambodian 2023 SEA Games will be carried out at the Moradok Techo National, Phnom Penh Cambodia.

"On April 5 (drawing), I received a letter from Cambodia that date there was a draw," said Indra Sjafri on Saturday, April 1, 2023.

Until now, the organizers have not released the group and pot draw format. However, the results of the 2023 SEA Games draw for football are predicted to not change much from the previous edition.

The 2023 SEA Games will be followed by 10 teams. They are Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, and Timor Leste.

Pot satu diprediksi akan diisi oleh juara bertahan dan rumah, yakni Vietnam dan Cambodia.

Pot dua diperkirakan akan dihuni oleh Thailand dan Indonesia yang pada SEA Games sebelumnya masing-masing mendapat medali perak dan perunggu.

If the draw results remain the same as before, then the three pots will be inhabited by Maysia and Myanmar.

Pot four is likely to be filled by the Philippines and Singapore. Meanwhile, the five pots will be filled by Timor Leste.

Meanwhile, pot 4 will be inhabited by the Philippines and Singapore, and pot 5 itself will be filled by Timor Leste.

Football is said to be using two stadiums in Cambodia, namely the Olympic Stadium and Prince Stadium as venues.

Quoted from Antara, Selsa, April 4, 2023, the coach of the Indonesian national team, Indra Sjafri, will include the names of players who have careers abroad in the Garuda U-22 squad.

The players are Pratama Arhan and Elkan Baggott. Indra admitted that he deliberately did not include Bagus Kahfi, who is currently playing for Greek club Asteras Tripolis FC because he was getting a chance from the club.

"Yesterday we discussed with the club Bagus. Good at being given the opportunity by the club, I think he is better at his club than at the SEA Games, so I don't register Bagus. But Elkan, Arhan, I register," he said.

Indra also emphasized that all teams participating in the SEA Games must be watched out for. However, he has a special opinion about the Vietnam team, which this time is no longer initiated by Park Hang Seo.

"I faced several times with him and I am even still communicating with Park. And he decided no longer in Vietnam. Of course there is a transition period, I hope this transition period becomes something that is not positive for Vietnam. Hopefully," he said.

Indra reminded again that his team's target at the Southeast Asian sporting event was a gold medal. The highest achievement in the SEA Games has only been won by the Indonesian football national team twice.

"The target must be a gold medal. It's been 32 years that we haven't won, we continue to ask God for a gold medal. Hopefully, it's agreed," he concluded.

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