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International media highlight Vietnam football league with packed crowds

Reuters news agency has run an article featuring stadiums in Vietnam with thousands of fans on June 5, as the country resumed top-flight football matches without social distancing measures or curbs on crowd sizes.
 
International media highlight Vietnam football league with packed crowds ảnh 1At the Thien Truong Stadium in Nam Dinh province (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Reuters news agency has run an articlefeaturing stadiums in Vietnam with thousands of fans on June 5, as the countryresumed top-flight football matches without social distancing measures or curbs on crowdsizes.

Matches in Vietnam’s professional league weresuspended in March but with success in combating the spread of the novelcoronavirus, the country is eagerly pursuing a return to normalcy to get itseconomy back on track, according to the article.

Hand sanitiser was available at the stadium in NamDinh province as stewards performed temperature checks on fans, who were askedto wear masks as they entered, it said.

Vietnam’s national team captain Que Ngoc Hai ofViettel said it was wonderful to see a full stadium.

“I’m not saying this to compare us with othercountries, but Vietnamese football has returned after the COVID outbreak, itshowed how well us Vietnamese have fought the virus,” he told Reuters./.
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