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VFF decided to offer the position of national team coach to a domestic manager with a lucrative salary.

The Vietnamese futsal was narrowly defeated 3-4 by Australia in the Asian Futsal qualifiers for the Southeast Asian region on February 26.

Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood remain on track for a semi-final showdown and a chance at the world No. 1 ranking after comfortable wins in the third round of the WGC Match Play Championship.

Mai Duc Chung has become the No 1 option for head coach of the national football team.

The news John Terry could be out for six weeks due to the need for exploratory knee surgery means Chelsea will have to reorganise their defence, manager Andre Villas-Boas admits.

World Cup-winning skipper Ricky Ponting said he intended to continue playing Test cricket for Australia despite being told he had no future in the national one-day team.

Your coaches from Chelsea Soccer School will run a training course for 180 junior footballers in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh defeated the world No 3 Chen Long of China 2-0 at the Thomas & Uber Cup Preliminary Asia Zone in Chinese Macau.

Barcelona took a giant step towards the Champions League's quarter-finals with a 3-1 win at Bayer Leverkusen.

Vietnamese young chess star Le Quang Liem has failed to defend his champion title at the 2012 Open Aeroflot in Russia after his latest defeat on February 12.

Phil Mickelson won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for the fourth time, denying playing partner Tiger Woods in his bid for a first official PGA Tour victory in over two years.

Four Vietnamese athletes will take part in the 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Champs, to be held in Hangzhou, China, from February 16-19.

Tiger Woods returns to the site of two of his most stirring victories when he makes his PGA Tour season debut at the $6.4 million Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

U19 Vietnam will join 10 other teams from Southeast Asian countries at the 2012 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy to be held at Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei from February 25-March 3.

Vietnam will organise three international chess competitions this year.

Vietnam’s national wrestling team will compete at the Asian Wrestling Championships as part of their preparations for the 2012 London Olympic qualifier.

Vietnam’s Nguyen Hoang Thien and his Hong Kong partner Wong Chun Hun won the men’s doubles event at the U18 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Tournament (Grade 4).

Vietnamese Chess Grandmaster Le Quang Liem completed the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival in the UK ranking 7th after a draw in the final match with Indian rival Negi Parimarjanon.

A delegation from the Vietnamese People’s Army has participated in the 10th Brunei International Skill-at-Arms.