The oil portrait of head coach of the Vietnamese national football team Park Hang-seo will be auctioned at Chon’s Auction House in downtown Hanoi on December 30. (Photo: Chon’s Auction House)Hanoi
(VNA) – The oil painting “My teacher” which portrays head coach of the
Vietnamese national football team Park Hang-seo will be auctioned at Chon’s
Auction House in downtown Hanoi on December 30.
The 73cm by 92cm
artwork by painter Tran The Vinh recreates the Korean coach putting his hand
over his heart during the singing of the Vietnamese national anthem before a match.
The painting has a
starting price of 117 million VND (5,000 USD).
According to
Director of Chon’s Auction House Nguyen Xuan Cuong, the money raised from the
auction will be donated to charity. Part of it will be used to support young
painters.
The artwork will
be on display at the auction house from December 23.
Park Hang-seo from
the Republic of Korea, 59, was hired to coach the men’s national, U23 and
Olympic football teams last October on a two-year contract.
Park played for his country before starting a professional
coaching career. He was the top assistant of Guus Hiddink during the Republic
of Korea’s run to the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2002.
In Vietnam, Park
and his players won hearts of millions of local football fans as they grabbed
the AFC U23 championship silver in January, reached the semi-final of the Asian
Games in the summer and won the country’s first AFF Suzuki Cup in 10 years in
December.
Last week, he was
named among 12 winners of the Person of the Year Award voted by the Journalist
Federation of Korea, a prize given to recognize the figures that have proudly
represented the Republic of Korea throughout the year. –VNA