• Milan impossible to come to Vietnam in 2009

    10/02/2009 05:00

    After its plan to invite Manchester United to Vietnam was broken, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) aimed to bring the Milan club to Vietnam. At this moment, this affair is at a standstill. Milan may not go to Vietnam in 2009 (photo: Getty Images)....

  • Vietnam’s women finish third in Greatest Race on Earth

    10/02/2009 05:00

    An excellent run by Pham Thi Hien in the Hong Kong Marathon Sunday gave the Vietnamese women’s team third place in the South - Southeast Asian category of Standard Chartered Bank’s fifth Greatest Race on Earth (GROE). In the first-ever appearance in...

  • Great pressure on track-and-field athletes

    10/02/2009 05:00

    Track-and-field athletes are now under a lot of pressure to win six gold medals at the 3rd Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam and the 25th SEA Games in Laos this year. Runner Truong Thanh Hang. The national track-and-field team will convene at the three...

  • V-League TV rights sold for $86,000

    09/02/2009 05:00

    Look At Vietnam – The Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) has sold broadcast rights for the first half of the upcoming V-League national football season for VND1.5 billion (US$86,000). The rights are broken up between domestic television stations. In the...

  • SPORTS IN BRIEF 10/2

    09/02/2009 05:00

    Local athletes to compete in Asian Sport Aerobic Championships; Viet Nam hands out invitations for nations to join Asian Indoor Games; Half-marathon to be added to Tien Phong Newspaper’s event There are 15 events and three age groups: for 12 to 14s, 15 to 17s...

  • Football academy boys eye big stadiums ahead

    09/02/2009 05:00

    The young trainees at Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) -Arsenal JMG Academy practice with bare feet at their Ham Rong headquarters in Pleiku Town Good cooking and expert training have made talented footballers out of 16 young...

  • Tien Minh to plummet in world ranking

    09/02/2009 05:00

    Vietnam’s number-one badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh (15th in the world) is about to lose 15 spots in the Badminton World Federation’s rankings since he didn’t take part in two major events in Europe. Badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh. This will...

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