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Vietnamese community join multi-ethnic football event in Czech Republic

The FC Sapa Praha team of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic became the runners-up at a friendly football tournament held by the Czech Republic’s Senate in Prague on June 19.
Vietnamese community join multi-ethnic football event in Czech Republic ảnh 1Illustrative photo. (Source: sport.aktualne.cz)
Prague (VNA) – The FC Sapa Praha team of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic became therunners-up at a friendly football tournament held by the Czech Republic’s Senatein Prague on June 19.

The tournament was attended by 21 teams representing variousethnic minority communities in the European country. 

In his opening remarks, First Vice President of the CzechRepublic’s Senate Jiri Ruzicka said the senate sponsor the annual tournament to strengthen exchange and connection among ethnic minority groupsin Czech.

Vietnamese Ambassador Thai Xuan Dungsaid the tournament can happen because of Czech’s success in containing theCOVID-19 pandemic. He spoke highly of the meaning of the tournament andexpected all football teams will compete with the spirit of friendship and fairplay to make it a successful event.

He added that the Vietnamese community has beenparticipating in the annual event in an attempt to integrate deeper into the localsociety, enhance friendship among the ethnic minorities in Czech and contributeto nurturing the relations between Vietnam and Czech.

FC Sapa Praha has been viewed as one of the strongest teams in the tournament as it won the third place in 2018 and 2020 and won the title in2019, according to Vice Chairman of the Vietnamese Association in CzechRepublic./.

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