NAYPYITAW (7 Dec 2013) – The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) have enlisted security personnel to make sure that their teams are not tainted by any hint of match-fixing at the 27th SEA Games which begin this week in Myanmar.
Following the scandal of 2005 in the Philippines, the VFF are going all out in to make sure that there are policemen attached to all four teams – the men and women’s football teams as well as the men and women’s Futsal teams.
“In the previous SEA Games, each football team had their own chief but this model did not work, so this time the federation will not appoint a leader,” said VFF president Nguyen Trong Hy.
All four teams will be monitored by Dao Manh Cuong, from the Department of Internal Political Security of the Ministry of Public Security while for the men’s football team, an added security will see a member of C45 – the Ministry of Public Security – following the team.
