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Chief coach Hoang Van Phuc has decided to only lead the national U23 squad in preparation for the upcoming 27th SEA Games in Myanmar later this year.

A series of contests and games were launched in Hanoi on July 22 in the lead up to the 17th Asian Games to be held in the Republic of Korea in 2014.

Cong Vinh confirmed that he has been invited by the Japanese football club, Consadole Sapporo FC, to play in the J-League Division 2.

Promising young cyclist Huynh Thanh Tung will start training at the World Cycling Centre in Switzerland from next week.

Tran Manh Dung scored for Vietnam in their 7-1 loss to Arsenal at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi yesterday.

About 30,000 Vietnamese spectators saw with their own eye Arsenal FC players do a warm-up exercise in Hanoi on July 16, one day ahead of their friendly match against Vietnamese players.

The vice-captain of the Vietnamese National Football Team said that the team will try their best in the friendly match against Arsenal today.

Hundreds of Vietnamese football fans came to Noi Bai Airport and waited many hours to welcome their Arsenal team idols.

Vietnamese badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh triumphed over his Chinese rival, Wing Ki Wong 2-1 in the US Open Prix Gold’s final clash on July 14, winning the championship title.

Vietnamese badminton player, Nguyen Tien Minh defeated Japanese rival Kento Momota 2-0 in the semi-finals of the US Open Prix Gold 2013 on July 13.

Vietnam's top badminton Nguyen Tien Minh breezed through to the quarter-final round of the Yonex OCBC US Open GPG badminton tournament on July 11 in California.

Arsenal has reduced their player number for the upcoming friendly match in Vietnam to just 22, from the initial 44.

US Open Badminton Championship No.3 seed Nguyen Tien Minh had no trouble thrashing Andres Lopez (underdog world no.244) from Mexico 2-0 in the first round of the tournament on July 9.

Dozens of football fans gathered at the headquarters of the VFF to get tickets for the friendly Vietnam-Arsenal football match.

Twenty-nine Vietnamese martial artists will be competing at the third World Vovinam Championships in Paris, France, over July 5–7.

Vietnam’s leading chess player Le Quang Liem has jumped from 34th to 4th in the FIDE’s most recent World Blitz Chess rankings for July.

14 Vietnamese athletes will participate in the 27th World Student Games festival, which is scheduled to take place in Kazan, Russia from June 30-July 20.

Vietnamese teenage swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien stormed to a gold medal at the fourth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Incheon, South Korea, yesterday.

Arsenal Football Club has sent a list of 69 members who will participate in its friendly match with Vietnam on July 17, including its best players.