Vietnam
HANOI (4 Aug 2008) – Defending V-League champions Binh Duong capitalised on the misery of their close rivals to go top of the V-League following their easy 3-0 demolition of Hoa Phat Hanoi. The Cong and Haiphong suffering defeats at the hands of Da Nang and former champions Dong Tam Long An respectively. The win…
HANOI (3 Aug 2008) – Two goals in each half of an exhilarating encounter gave the Brazilian Olympic squad a 2-0 win over Vietnam at the My Dinh Stadium. Striker Alexandre Pato opened the scoring just six minutes into the match and it took Thiago Neves until the 81st minute to find the net again.…
HANOI (24 July 2008) – Vietnam national coach Henrique Calisto has listed four new faces to the squad which is preparing to face the Brazilian Olympic team at the My Dinh National Stadium on 1 August, 2008. The team which had only recently returned from a playing tour of China, have left out goalkeeper Tan…
HANOI (16 July 2008) – Song Lam Nghe An (SLNA) crushed Da Nang 5-2 to lift their fifth National Under-17 Football Championship crown. But the game almost did not turn up to be in SLNA favour where they had to come back from behind and had a hat trick from Dinh Bao to thank for…
HANOI (11 July 2008) – Anh Duy’s header in stoppage time gave Binh Duong a 2-1 win over Hai Phong for a place in the semi-finals as defending champions SLNA made the final of the Football Newspaper U17 Championship. With the win, Binh Duong will take on Da Nang in the last four. Hai Phong…
HANOI (3 July 2008) – The Bank of Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) are keen to have Manchester United next year. The bank will be cooperating with insurer AIG – the official sponsor of the English football club – to bring the Premier League and European champions to Vietnam. Last month BIDV wrote to…