Coach Park Hang-seo’s players at Vietnam U22 squad will have a friendly match in September with China U22 team led by experienced coach Guus Hiddink, who is Park’s former partner on the coaching staff of the Republic of Korea (ROK) team during the 2002 FIFA World Cup campaign.
Ma Minh Cam and Do Nguyen Trung Hau have brilliantly coursed through the last qualifying round to join Tran Quyet Chien, Ngo Dinh Nai and Nguyen Quoc Nguyen as the five Vietnamese representatives in the main draw of the ongoing Carom Billiard 3-Cushion World Cup in Porto, Portugal.
Vietnam’s chess prodigy, Nguyen Anh Khoi, continued to display brilliant form at international youth competitions, as he clinched the rapid chess gold medal with one game to spare at the ongoing Asian Junior (Open and Girls) Chess Championship 2019 in Indonesia.
(HBO) - In Luong Son district, the sports movement of schools is quite lively. Up to now, there are 44 schools (43 public schools, 1 non-public school) with 21,669 students in the whole district. For the physical education, the schools continue to implement, supplement and complete the distribution of the physical education curriculum according to the guidelines to ensure the sufficient number of periods and the content of teaching under the MOET curriculum distribution.
(HBO) - After 2 days (25th, 26th June) competing in the 5th Command, Shooting, Martial Arts Competition for People’ Public Security, Exam Table 2 - the Ministry of Public Security held in Bac Giang Province, in the afternoon of June 26, the representatives from the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security awarded the first prize to the delegation of Hoa Binh People’ Public Security.
(HBO) - Ky Son District People's Committee organized the men's volleyball tournament in 2019. Participating in the prize, there were 130 athletes from 9 teams of communes in the district.
Vietnamese Grandmaster Le Quang Liem won the sixth match of the 2019 Summer Chess Classic held at the Saint Louis Chess Club, the US, on June 25.
(HBO) - Currently, within the province there are 32 artificial mini grass football fields, nearly 30 swimming pools, 37 tennis courts, 1 golf course and more than 2,000 simple sports grounds in the hamlets and 724 sports clubs at the grassroots levels. All the above physical training and sports facilities have been built from the socialized sources invested by the enterprises, the organizations and the individuals.
(HBO) - Bui Thi Luong lived in Yen Lac commune, Yen Thuy district. At 12 years old, Luong was able to participate in athletics competitions at the Yen Thuy District Student Sports Tournament in 2016. Luong won a gold medal and participated in the Hoa Binh Provincial Sports Tournament.
Vietnam’s national football team has risen two places to 96th in the latest FIFA’s rankings. This is the highest position Vietnam have held in the past 20 years. Their highest rank ever was 84th in 1998.
(HBO) - Hoa Binh - Shakti Yoga Club - Hoa Binh just celebrated June 21 International Yoga Day and co-performed yoga.
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Roger Federer began his preparations for next month’s Wimbledon Championships with a 7-6(1) 6-3 victory over unseeded Australian John Millman in the opening round of the Halle Open on Tuesday.
Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai has been named one of six notable names of Asia that are good enough to play in Europe this summer.
Vietnam finished second in Group C of the ongoing Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U20 Futsal Championship in Iran. They will face Indonesia in the quarterfinals on June 18.
Matchday 13 will be an uncompromising battle between teams as it marks the conclusion of the 2019 V.League first leg. With Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi FC already guaranteed the top-two places, up to seven other teams, equivalent to half of the participants, still stand the chance to settle for third position in the table after this weekend.
Nguyen Thanh Khoi, captain of Hoang Anh Gia Lai U19s, has been chosen as the Vietnamese representative in the ASIAN ELEVEN team for the JapaFunCup international friendly football match with the U-18 Tohoku selection team, set to take place at J-Village Stadium in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture on June 22.
Vietnamese star runner Quach Thi Lan has wrapped up the 2019 Asian Grand Prix Series with success, as she bagged two gold medals in the women’s 400m from the two-leg event in Chongqing, China.
Forward Nguyen Cong Phuong missed from the spot as Vietnam lost 4-5 in the penalty shootout against Curacao in their 2019 King’s Cup final at Chang Arena in Buriram, Thailand on June 8.
Vietnam’s U-23 team won over Myanmar 2-0 in a friendly match at the Viet Tri stadium in the northern province of Phu Tho on June 7th.
Vietnam’s football team secured its win at the last minute of the added time of an opener against Thailand of the football King’s Cup 2019 on June 5 after a header by forward Anh Duc following a corner kick by midfielder Xuan Truong found the net of its arch rival.
(HBO) - Bui Thanh Huyen, 13 years old, is a pupil of Thinh Lang Primary and Secondary School in Hoa Binh city. Besides studying at school, Huyen spends from 1-2 hours a day to practice sports.
(HBO) - In recent years, the movement of physical training and sports in Doan Ket commune (Yen Thuy district) has developed strongly and widely in the hamlets. Besides mass sports, ethnic traditional sports are also regularly practiced by people such as crossbow shooting, tug of war, pushing sticks, stilts...
(HBO) - In Kim Truy commune, Kim Boi Center of Culture and Information organized a swimming tournament with the different distances of Kim Boi district in 2019. Nearly 120 athletes from 21 departments in the province took part in the tournament. They competed the following contents: the relay for men's and women's team, the freestyle with a distance of 50 meters and 100 meters, and the breaststroke with a distance of 50 meters and 100 meters.
(HBO) - In the two days of May 28 and 29, Kim Boi Military Command held the 2019 militia defense force sport festival.
Matchday 11 of the 2019 V.League saw reigning champions Hanoi FC unexpectedly ousted by lower-rated Nam Dinh FC, while Hoang Anh Gia Lai suffered their first defeat under newly appointed manager Lee Tae-hoon.
