It was the first conference in which the government leader asked concerned agencies to have answers in details to meet people’s demands and raise national football to even higher levels. The seminar was jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Education, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the Vietnam Professional Football Company. The conference also attracted many others involved in the game, such as coaches, referees, journalists and football fans. During the five-hour conference, Dam pointed to different reasons leading to the limited number of spectators in the stands at almost all stadiums nationwide. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (standing) at the event He noted that there had been dishonest and unclear games, and he asked leaders of the VFF to develop a response to these problems. VFF Vice President Tran Quoc Tuan admitted that this was the correct analysis, and confirmed that the national football governing body would do its best to solve the problems and assure the strong development of the sport. “Yes, there are problems, such as match fixing, violence and others. But VFF does not condone these and has made strong responses against these,” said Tuan. “We said ‘No’ to negative activities and forever expelled players and referees who were involved in these problems. Here we can look at the match fixing cases in Ninh Binh and Long An, as examples,” he said. Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Khanh Hai and head of the V.League organising… [Read full story]
Former Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs is set to sign a two-year contract to become the director of a Vietnamese football academy.The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talents Football Club, a professional club based in Saigon, has said it will sign a deal with the 43-year-old legend next Monday in celebration of a new branch in northern Vietnam.The 13-time Premier League champion will be making two trips per year to Vietnam to train the club’s players and coaches. The team, commonly known as PVF, competes in V.League 2, the second tier of Vietnamese football.Giggs’ role includes “building and developing PVF…... [read more]
Ryan Giggs arrived at the Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport on Nov 20. The fans were eagerly awaiting the arrival of the club's former winger The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talents Football Club, a professional club based in Saigon, has said it will sign a deal with the 43-year-old legend this week in celebration of a new branch in northern Vietnam.The 13-time Premier League champion will be making two trips per year to Vietnam to train the club’s players and coaches. The team, commonly known as PVF, competes in V.League 2, the second tier of Vietnamese football.Giggs’ role includes…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) chairman Nguyen Trong Hy said the transfer price of local footballers is getting far beyond their actual values and thus it is bringing about bad effect to the national football development. He labeled the local transfer window is almost in a chaos as clubs are chasing to sign qualified players at high-sky price when the new season will loom on January 22. Hy agrees with Hoang Anh Gia Lai FC owner Doan Nguyen Duc that no Vietnamese player is worth over VND5 billion (US$256,000). But Cong Vinh, 25, of T&T Hanoi is priced…... [read more]
(Cinet)- On the morning of February 17, General Department of Sports and Physical Training organized Vietnam sports development strategy 2020 and an orientation of 2030. In a period 1, from now to 2020, Vietnam will focus on training young players and developing professional football clubs. At this time, Vietnam tends to increase and reform some achievements of national teams to get AFF championship of AFF Cup and SEA Games in top 15 of Asia ranking the sixth and seventh position of Asia, overcoming the third qualifying round for the Asia-Pacific region. In a period 2, between 2021 and 2030, the…... [read more]
(Cinet) – On October 26, Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) associated with some representatives for the FIFA to organize a seminar on training and applying information technology into Vietnam football. Recently, the FIFA has helped Vietnam to train and apply information technology into Vietnam football when establishing Project on building a football management system (FMS), a Communication Management System (CMS) and some software management system. The Projects will build some data documents and implement in detail in the up-coming time. The seminar will take place in the head office of the VFF aims at training some special fields for the IT…... [read more]
