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US sports envoy programme visits Da Nang

Former US women’s national team footballer Linda Hamilton and coach Lisa Berg had a training session with Vietnamese female footballers as part of the Sports Envoy programme in Da Nang on April 25.
US sports envoy programme visits Da Nang ảnh 1Former US women’s national team footballer Linda Hamilton in Vietnam (Photo: VNA)

Da Nang (VNA) – Former US women’s national team footballer Linda Hamilton, whowon the World Cup in 1991, and coach Lisa Berg had a training session withVietnamese female footballers as part of the Sports Envoy programme in Da Nangon April 25.

Twenty-fivestudents of the Da Nang University of Physical Education And Sports’s footballfaculty received training from the US envoys on playing and organising sportevents.

The sportprogramme was rounded off in the central city with a football festival for 100pupils of Da Nang’s SOS Children's Village and Nguyen Dinh Chieu school forvisually impaired students.

The SportsEnvoy programme is a global sports mentoring programme of the US Department ofState. It mobilises professional athletes, coaches and administrators in arange of sports to engage underserved youth, particularly girls.-VNA
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