Saola has been officially selected as mascot of SEA Games and ASEAN PARA Games 11 to be held in Hanoi in 2021; while a logo symbolising a flying bird and V-shaped hand has been chosen to be the official logo for the events.
The Vietnam U22 team will take part in the Toulon Tournament to be held in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France from December 23 to January 7 next year, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has announced.
Hanoi’s outskirts district of Dong Anh on October 5 began the construction of three infrastructure projects worth a total of 1.2 trillion VND (nearly 52 million USD), an activity to mark the 1,010th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and the 66th anniversary of the capital city’s Liberation Day.
The 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) is scheduled to be held from November 21 to December 2, 2021 in Hanoi and 10 nearby localities, heard a press conference in the capital city on September 29.
National team star striker Pham Thi Hai Yen is thrilled with her opportunity to go abroad to play for Lank FC in the Campeonato Nacional III Championship, the third division of Portuguese women's football.
Alfred Riedl, a former coach of the Vietnamese national football team, passed away at the age of 70 after a long time battling with cancer, Austrian media reported on September 8.
Deputy Director of the National Sports Administration at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Tran Duc Phan, met with Paul Vincent L.Uy, an official of the Philippine Embassy in Vietnam, on September 3 to discuss sports cooperation in the time to come.
Football coach Park Hang-seo was honoured on August 27 with a second-class Labour Order, while his assistants Lee Young-jin and Kim Han-yoon received the Certificates of Merit from the Prime Minister, in recognition of their contributions to Vietnamese football.
About a hundred metres before prior to the finish line, Hoang Nguyen Thanh pulled out a tiny national flag and waived to celebrate his victory in the 2020 national marathon championship.
The women’s national football team of Vietnam remain at the top place in Southeast Asia although they have dropped three places on the FIFA Women’s World Rankings for August.
Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai has been unexpectedly voted among the leading 500 most important players in the world by football publication World Soccer.
Hundreds of Cambodian athletes and officials gathered at the Morodok Techo National Stadium on August 7 afternoon to start the 1,000-day countdown to the 2023 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 32).
The South East Asian Games Federation (SEAGF) Council, Executive and Standing Committees Meetings took place in Hanoi on July 21-22 with the participation of over 100 delegates, including more than 30 international ones.
The Southeast Asian Games Federation (SEAGF) is convening a virtual meeting on July 21 and 22 to review Vietnam’s preparations for hosting the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) next year.
The Vietnam Sports Administration (VSA) is pressing ahead with preparations for the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) and the 11th ASEAN Para Games to be hosted by Vietnam in 2021, according to a leading official of the VSA.
The Olympic Games, one of the most-anticipated sporting events on the planet, was originally scheduled to start later this month in Tokyo but was postponed to July 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The host Vietnam will hold an online conference with regional countries on July 21 and 22 to announce the list of sports at the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) and the 11th Southeast Asian Para Games (Para Games 11), which are scheduled for 2021.
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