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French coach Grachen Guillaume has been chosen to lead the U19 Vietnam football team to the coming Southeast Asian tournament.

Vietnamese striker Le Cong Vinh has been named the best player in Southeast Asia in an online voting contest organised by sports online newspaper Goal.

Vietnam’s female football squad has defended its 28th place in the latest International Federation of Association Football rankings, its1654 points leading the Southeast Asian region.

The first international mountain marathon will take place in Sapa, Lao Cai province on October 5.

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.