Originally posted by Adesor Vafaseya
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First of all Vingada got quite a few international friendlies before the tournament - 4 to be exact. In the same time period, Vietnam had 0 friendlies and I highly doubt the that Kyrgyzstan or many of the other teams who advanced to the 2nd round had more that many international friendlies in the 3 months leading up to the games.
Secondly, friendlies don't have to all be against U-23 national teams, they can be against any team really - IPL, Azadegan, 2nd division teams from around the gulf, etc. Most leagues were on break during the summer, so it wouldn't have been hard for Vingada to arrange friendlies if he really wanted to. Ammah khob na hemmat boodo na gheyrat!
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