The rise of Southeast Asia
From the “low -lying” position of Asia, the Southeast Asian teams have risen over the years in all districts, from the national team to the young level.
In the World Cup qualifier, in the last 3 consecutive periods (2018, 2022, 2026), there was always a representative of Southeast Asia in the third qualifying round. The record score of the Southeast Asian teams in this qualifying round was constantly broken. In 2018, Thailand only had 2 points. By 2022, Vietnam has 4 points. And now, Indonesia has 6 points but still has 4 matches.
Table in the U.17 Asian finals 2025
Similar to the young football playground. In the U.17 Asian Final round, there will be 3 representatives of Southeast Asia. U.17 Vietnam is in Group B with rivals U.17 Japan, U.17 Australia and U.17 UAE. U.17 Thailand is in Group A with host U.17 Saudi Arabia, U.17 Uzbekistan and U.17 China. Meanwhile, U.17 Indonesia lies in the “easiest” group. The opponent of the thousand -island team in Group C is U.17 Korea, U.17 Yemen and U.17 Afghanistan.
At first glance, the opportunity for U.17 Vietnam and U.17 Thailand is not high. However, remember, the young football playground is always surprising. The younger the younger, the more fluctuations are, when the players have not yet formed a fixed tactical thinking and more or less immature in thinking. U.17 Vietnam used to downstream U.17 Australia to reach the quarterfinals of U.17 Asia 9 years ago as an example. Or in the U.20 Asian qualifier 2025, U.20 Cambodia used to defeat U.20 Bahrain, although it was clear that it was undeniable that the difference of these two football platforms.
In the U.17 Asian playground, 2025, the careful preparation of physical, psychological and legal matches is the key to clearly the ability to go away from the teams. U.17 Vietnam is expected to focus again in the middle of March to meet.
According to the newspaper source AdolescentVietnam Football Federation (VFF) will sign a contract with a Japanese strategist who once trained U.16 and U.19 teams. With the new training team, U.17 Vietnam will have about 3 weeks of forging and preparing the mental foundation carefully before “fighting”.

U.17 Vietnam: Be dreamy and hope
Answer the newspaper Adolescent After bringing U.17 Vietnam to the Asian qualifying round, coach Cristiano Roland emphasized which team in the Asian finals is also strong. Every match is difficult, but passing the group stage to attend the World Cup is possible.
Opportunities of U.17 Indonesia
Of the 3 Asian representatives, U.17 Indonesia is the team with the most obvious World Cup.
First, the youth team of Van Dao had attended this tournament in 2023 as the host. In fact, the World Football Federation (FIFA) assigned Indonesia to the host of the U.20 World Cup finals in the 2023 World Cup. However, due to the factors outside of football, Indonesia no longer retains the right to host (switch to Argentina).
However, FIFA made up for Indonesia when it was assigned to the country to host U.17 World Cup 2023. After that, U.17 Indonesia impressed when drawing 1-1 before U.17 Ecuador and U.17 Panama. Despite being eliminated in the group stage, the spirit of competition of the youth team of Van Dao is deserved to be recognized.
This is the motivation and precious capital for U.17 Indonesia to be determined to return to U.17 World Cup. The team of this team in the Asian playground has U.17 Korea at superior level. However, with the remaining opponents such as U.17 Yemen and U.17 Afghanistan, U.17 Indonesia can completely think of victory.
Plus the naturalization strategy of the Dutch players is applied by the Indonesian Football Federation (PSSI) from the national team to young age like U.23, U.20 and U.17, the Indonesian youth team will have Good potential to dream of world playground.