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First Viewing Party in HCM City for UEFA Champion League final
Vietnamese football fans will experience the UEFA Champion League 2015 with a first-time ever Viewing Party for the UCL final match scheduled on June 6 in HCM City.
The final match, hosted by famous celebrities in a one of a kind setting, will bring fans the excitement of the UEFA Champions League.
It is one of many activities of the Leagues’ 2015 campaign brought to fans by Heineken, an integral partner of the UEFA Champions League since 2005.
With this year’s “Champion the Match” idea, the campaign presents opportunities for football fans to ‘champion’ world-class UCL experiences from March to June.
Another activity called “Join Getaway to Viewing Party” Challenge will include football fans, who will take part in a challenge with famous singers.
The winner will be given a VIP experience during an on-line/off-line UCL Viewing Party.
Source VNS

Military-run football center an incubator of young talents in Vietnam
The football (soccer) center operated by Viettel, a military-run Vietnamese mobile network operator, is where budding, teenage Vietnamese talents are trained to realize their dreams of becoming star players.
The Viettel Football Training Center, currently located at 155 Truong Chinh Street, Thanh Xuan District in Hanoi, is quite isolated from residential areas and the heart of the city.
Nearly 150 teenagers aged from under 12 to under 21 from all over the country have beaten several hundred contenders and proved they have what it takes to be promising footballers.
The young trainees undergo strenuous practice and military-like discipline.
As Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporters observed on a weekend in March, the youngsters quickly got up to a siren at 5:00 am sharp.
They briskly cleared their bedding, performed hygienic routines, and showed up at the practice courts 15 minutes later.

A young trainee is pictured neatly folding up his bedding after getting up at 5:00 am in the morning. Photo: Tuoi Tre
They then took a shower at 6:00 am before having breakfast and going to academic classes.
Their afternoon training session lasted from 2:15 pm to 5:00 pm.
The youngsters learned with their tutors for two hours starting from 7:00 pm before having dinner at 9:00 pm and going to bed one hour later.
Vu Quang Do, of the U-15 team, has practiced at the center for over three years now.
Though his hometown in Thai Binh Province is some 110 kilometers from Hanoi, he is allowed to return home only twice a year, during Tet (Lunar New Year) and the summer break.
The boy, who looks up to outstanding local footballers including Van Quyet and Tuan Anh, said he is used to taxing training and always gives it his best shot to emulate his idols.
Coaches take turns to take care of their students in the evening, and remind them to strictly keep to the exacting schedule.
Each of them beat hundreds of fellow contestants to make their way to the center’s teams.
Nguyen Tien Loi, of the U-15 team, divulged he defeated some 500 contenders in the central province of Ha Tinh, his hometown, and a similar number of competitors in Hanoi to land a spot on the center’s 25-strong U-12 team three years ago.
One of the Viettel Football Training Center’s philosophies is making sure that their students are capable of passing university entrance exams and having good conduct, according to coach Dang Phuong Nam, head of the center’s training department and a former Vietnam international.
Those who fail to achieve satisfactory academic performance or repeatedly misbehave over one year will be eliminated the following year.
“We always make academic performance and good conduct a top priority among our four criteria in selecting trainees. Our students are all required to pass high school graduation and university entrance exams and have a wholesome, respected lifestyle,” Nam noted.
These are meant to make sure the trainees keep furthering their professional and academic efforts, protecting their good image in local fans’ eyes and resisting rampant temptations of match-fixing later, he added.
Several of the center’s students boast brilliant academic achievements. Some are even advised by the coaches to give up on their football training and focus on their academic pursuits in order not to waste their scholastic capacity.
Some of them are currently studying at local universities.
Cooperation with Borussia Dortmund
The Viettel Football Training Center is currently home to 146 trainees who are divided into seven teams in the age groups of 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, and the second division.
The center has 17 coaches, most of whom are former members of the popular erstwhile The Cong Club of the military, such as Nguyen Hong Son, Dang Phuong Nam, Dang Thanh Phuong, Nguyen Hai Bien, and Dinh The Nam.
In 2009, the Ministry of National Defense decided to disband The Cong Club and handed over its league squad to Hanoi while entrusting Viettel with training its young trainees.
Nguyen Tan Anh, manager of the Hoang Anh Gia Lai-Arsenal JMG Football Academy team, observed that the Viettel Football Training Center is currently one of the country’s most prestigious football training facilities since it tapped into the former The Cong Club’s strengths and traditions, and adopting rigorous training in a military-like environs.
Bui Tien Dung, a Viettel-trained footballer contracted by Hoang Anh Gia Lai to play at Vietnam’s 2015 top-flight V-League 1, is both professionally brilliant and well-behaved, Anh remarked.
He is positive that the signing of a comprehensive cooperation agreement between the Viettel Football Training Center and HAGL Group, which owns league club Hoang Anh Gia Lai and the Hoang Anh Gia Lai-Arsenal JMG Football Academy team, in the coming time will hugely benefit the Vietnamese football arena.
Hoang Anh Gia Lai’s U-19 men have competed impressively at several local and international tournaments in recent times.
Hoang Cong Vinh, vice CEO of Viettel Group, told Tuoi Tre that the group’s football teams aim to get back to the professional football arena in three years’ time.

Members of the Viettel Football Training Center’s U-15 team are pictured during a drill. Photo: Tuoi Tre
Viettel is also working on a plan to forge an alliance with Borussia Dortmund, one of Europe’s leading football clubs, and establish a football training academy, which is expected to be as successful as the Hoang Anh Gia Lai-Arsenal JMG Football Academy, located in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.
The project, which started two years ago but was later suspended, was recently resumed.
The Viettel Football Training Center is set to be moved to a new facility on a 12-hectare plot in Hoa Lac, some 30 kilometers from the heart of Hanoi, in June this year.
The facility houses a six-floor building for athletes and trainees to stay in, and an indoor drill building with hi-end equipment and comforts.
Source Tuoitrenews

Liverpool 1-2 Manchester United: Magical Mata makes the difference as Gerrard sees red
The Spaniard scored a brilliant brace at Anfield, while the midfielder was dismissed for a stamp on Ander Herrera seconds after coming on in a fiery encounter on Sunday afternoon
Steven Gerrard was sensationally sent off just 38 seconds into what will likely be his final Liverpool appearance against Manchester United, as Louis van Gaal’s men took a huge step towards Champions League qualification with a 2-1 win at Anfield.
The Reds captain was left on the bench by boss Brendan Rodgers before being brought on at half-time, only to be dismissed by referee Martin Atkinson less than a minute after his introduction.
Having contested a full-blooded 50/50 challenge with Ander Herrera, Gerrard saw red for stamping on the leg of the Spaniard, meaning he will now serve a three-match ban that will leave him with just five more Premier League games in a Liverpool shirt ahead of his summer move LA Galaxy.
Earlier, Herrera had set up Mata for the opening goal with a superb pass as United suffocated a Liverpool side who had not lost a league game since their 3-0 reverse at Old Trafford in December.
The visitors’ task was made easier in the second half thanks to Gerrard’s moment of madness, with Mata subsequently doubling United’s advantage with a goal that, on another day, would likely have stolen the headlines.
Mata found the net with an acrobatic scissor kick, as Van Gaal’s men opened up a five-point gap over Liverpool in the race for fourth place.
Daniel Sturridge netted a consolation with Liverpool’s first shot on target with 21 minutes left, but the hosts never looked like mounting a comeback and had Simon Mignolet not saved an injury-time penalty from Wayne Rooney, United would have won even more convincingly.
After a cagey start, a moment of brilliance from United broke the deadlock in the 14th minute, as Mata silenced the home fans with a goal in front of The Kop.
The Spaniard timed his run to perfection to meet a superb through ball from compatriot Herrera and coolly slotted his shot into the bottom-left corner.
With Gerrard reduced to the role of spectator, Liverpool struggled in midfield, as Joe Allen and Jordan Henderson found it difficult to retain possession.
But for all their dominance, United failed to create any further clear-cut first-half opportunities following the opener and they should have been punished by Adam Lallana in the 35th minute.
The England man was teed up by international colleague Sturridge in the centre of the area but with the goal gaping, he could only turn his shot narrowly wide of David de Gea’s post.
Gerrard was thrown into the fray in place of Lallana at the break, but he was soon making his way off the field in ignominy following a rush of blood.
He appeared to win the ball in the initial challenge with Herrera, but then stamped on the United man’s leg, leaving Atkinson with little choice but to brandish a red card.
Visiting defender Phil Jones was then lucky to only see yellow for a rash challenge on Henderson, before Angel Di Maria escaped punishment for catching a high clearance on the touchline before the ball had gone out of play.
Liverpool’s indignation was furthered when Mata left them with a mountain to climb, producing a stunning scissor-kick finish from Di Maria’s lofted pass.
The hosts did rally, and they pulled one back in the 69th minute when De Gea allowed Sturridge’s shot from Philippe Coutinho’s pass to fly in at his near post.
There was to be no grandstand finish, though, with Rooney denied from the spot by a fine Mignolet stop to his right in injury time after Emre Can had brought down Daley Blind.
Martin Skrtel then caught De Gea with a stamp that sparked unsavoury scenes at the end of a disappointing day for Liverpool, but another memorable renewal of one of England’s most famous fixtures.
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Barcelona 2-1 Real Madrid: Suarez seals the points in Clasico
The Uruguayan’s second half goal made the difference after Mathieu had seen his early opener cancelled out by Ronaldo.
Luis Suarez’s second-half strike ensured Barcelona beat Real Madrid 2-1 at Camp Nou to go four points clear of their arch-rivals at the top of La Liga in a typically enthralling Clasico.
Suarez endured a miserable Barca debut when the Catalan giants were beaten 3-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu back in October, but gained revenge by scoring his first goal in the biggest fixture in club football on Sunday to secure three precious points.
Jeremy Mathieu’s first Liga goal for Barca put them in front in the first half, but Cristiano Ronaldo rounded off a fine move to equalise with his 42nd goal of the season before half-time.
Gareth Bale – much maligned in the game’s build-up – had a goal ruled out before the break, with Ronaldo just offside, and Suarez’s seventh goal in as many games settled it to put Barca in command of the title race heading into the international break.
Defeat for Real will lead to further questions over Carlo Ancelotti’s future, with reports in the Spanish media claiming the Italian’s job would be under threat in the event of a loss.
Barca have now won seven games in a row and their dreams of winning a famous treble are very much alive
Familiar recent struggles in front of goal came back to haunt Real, though a highly charged atmosphere was almost silenced early on when Ronaldo’s close-range volley struck the crossbar after Karim Benzema picked him out 11 minutes in.
Isco fired a shot narrowly wide from the edge of the penalty area as Barca were forced onto the back foot in a typically frantic start with so much at stake.
But Real’s failure to finish was punished as Barca went in front after 19 minutes.
Mathieu was the unlikely scorer, evading Sergio Ramos to head home Lionel Messi’s inviting free-kick with only his second goal for the club.
An unmarked Neymar somehow failed to double their lead with a tame finish from inside the six-yard box and he was made to pay when Ronaldo equalised with a well-worked goal just after the half-hour.
Luka Modric played the ball forward for Benzema, whose clever first-time backheel allowed tne Portuguese attacker to surge ahead of Dani Alves and beat Claudio Bravo with a neat finish.
Bale thought he had put Real in front, but Ronaldo was called offside when he nodded the ball on for the Wales forward to tap in.
The former Tottenham man ought to have made up for that disappointment, but fired wide after the ball fell kindly for him in the penalty area late in a first half in which Ronaldo was also booked for diving.
Madrid continued where they left off after the break and Bravo did well to keep out Benzema’s strike after the France striker again linked up well with Ronaldo.
Barca were back in front 11 minutes into the second half, though, with Ramos this time caught out by a ball over the top from Alves which sent Suarez clear and the Uruguay striker showed great control before guiding the ball into the far corner of the net with a fine finish.
As Real frantically sought an equaliser, they were left exposed at the back – Neymar and Messi shooting off-target when well-placed.
A late charge from the visitors failed to materialise, Jordi Alba and Messi were denied by Iker Casillas in the closing stages as Barca attempted to kill the game off, but two goals proved to be enough to seal a potentially pivotal victory.
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Football, security officials discuss measures against match-fixing
Football and security officials from Vietnam, the World Football Federation (FIFA), and Interpol have met in Hanoi to discuss measures and cooperation in the fight against negative phenomena and match-fixing in football.
At the March 20 conference, held for the first time in Vietnam, FIFA security officer Nicholas Raudenski said Vietnamese football is growing in line with the development of the global football, so wrongdoings and match-fixing in Vietnamese football are of big concern to FIFA.
Julie Norris of Interpol’s Integrity in Sport unit underscored that wrongdoings and match-fixing is not Vietnam’s own problem, adding that match-fixing has become increasingly complicated, organised and hard to discover in recent years.
No individual or organisation can solve wrongdoings and match-fixing in football themselves and the cooperation of all relevant sides is the only way to bring wrongdoings to light and get rid of them, she said.
Norris hoped Vietnam will continually improve legal framework and laws in order to keep pace with the development of world football.
Meanwhile, the VFF’s general secretary Le Hoai Anh said that the VFF always condemns and shows no tolerance to any wrongdoing and match-fixing.
“We hope relevant agencies will cooperate with us in the fight against wrongdoings and match-fixing,” Anh said.
Source VNA

Vietnam football matches listed for betting by 79 foreign firms
Vietnamese football matches have been listed for betting by 79 international bookmakers across the world, said Julie Norris, head of Interpol’s integrity in sport unit, at the conference on the prevention of match fixing held in Hanoi yesterday.
The conference had the participation of officials from Interpol, AFC, FIFA, and Vietnamese representatives from the ministries of public security, justice, finance, and sports.
Ms. Norris stressed at the meeting that criminal rings often back the manipulation of football games and they have the involvement of thousands of bookmakers across the world.
Nicholas Raudenski of the FIFA security unit added that the criminal rings can even ‘control’ and force referees and footballers to help manipulate matches.
Le Hoai Anh, general secretary of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF), told the meeting that Vietnam has conducted effective cooperation with AFC and FIFA in the prevention of match fixing and detected several cases in recent years.
VFF is planning to set up an integrity unit to promote transparency and prevent wrongdoings in the coming time, he added.
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U23s ready for Asian qualifier
Viet Nam manager Toshyia Miura has finalised the names of 23 players who will compete at the Asian U23 Football Championship’s qualifier later this month.

Raring to go: Midfielder Vo Huy Toan (right) of Viet Nam fights for the ball in a March 15 friendly against Uzbekistan. Toan and his teammates are ready for the Asian U23 Football Championship qualifiers in Malaysia later this month.
The Japanese decided to have three goalkeepers, seven defenders, nine midfielders and four strikers in Malaysia where Viet Nam will vie against three other teams in Group I for a ticket to the final round.
Earlier, Miura said goodbye to several players injured days before the event.
The team arrived in Bangkok on Friday (March 20) for a last friendly match against Thailand in preparation for the Malaysian competition.
Speaking with reporters before his flight, Miura said life had never been easy, neither was football.
Miura revealed that he had made some changes in training exercises and the friendly match in Bangkok would be an important test.
Kiatisuk Senamuang of Thailand has also called players for the friendly against Viet Nam as well as the Asian qualifying round.
His team is a combination of national team members and talented players from youth squads.
The Thai coach, who is called Zico, said Viet Nam were a tough rival.
He said Vietnamese players had good skills and were a united team.
After the friendly match, Viet Nam will fly to Kuala Lumpur where they will kick off their continental tournament on March 27 against the hosts.
Two days later they will play Japan before meeting in Macau on March 31.
According to the rules, 10 teams who top their group will advance to the final in Qatar next year. They will be joined by five second-placed squads who have best result during the qualification round.
Malaysian coach Ismail Razip recently said his goal at this tournament was to beat Viet Nam.
He said it was a do-or-die match. In Group I, Viet Nam are the main rivals vying for second place against his team because Japan were too strong. And Malaysia versus Viet Nam in the opening game would be decisive as the winners would partly complete their goal.
Razip said his team had well prepared for the qualifier with several international friendlies. Their participation at the Singapore professional league would be an advantage to help them maintain their form.
Malaysia unexpectedly lost to Myanmar U20 0-3 in a friendly match on March 19, but it seemed to be an accident. The team have maintained their good form with a victory at the Bangabandhu Gold Cup recently, a title that they grabbed again after 18 years.
Razip puts his trust in striker Faizat Ghazli who scored a decisive goal in Malaysia’s 3-2 win over Bangladesh in the Gold Cup final.
Midfielder Nazirul Naim Che Hashim was also appreciated, while young forward Andik Modh Ishak was said to have brightening future.
Top candidate Japan arrived in Malaysia on March 15 to get familiar with the destination.
In earlier friendlies, they beat Singapore 8-1 and trounced Myanmar 9-0.
Source: VNS

Hoang Anh Tuan to coach U19 national football team
The Viet Nam Football Federation has decided to appoint Hoang Anh Tuan as head coach of the national U19 team in preparation for upcoming international events.
Tuan will replace Guillaume Graechen who is busy leading Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Club in the V-League. HAGL are standing in rank 10th out of 14 teams in the table at the moment, having lost five our of eight matches this season, so Graechen quit the U19 team job to focus on his team.
Tuan is in the central province of Nghe An to watch the final round of the national U19 football tournament to select the best players for the national team.
The U19 team will compete in the 2015 AFF U19 Youth Championship from August 22 to September 4, and the AFC U19 Championship 2016 Qualifiers from October 2-10.
Tuan, who has also coached Hai Phong FC, gained a certificate from the AFC in 2005, having participated in special training courses in India and Switzerland.
Source: VNS
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