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World cup winning former French football star, Christian Karembeu, will arrive in Vietnam to meet Vietnamese fans at the Hoa Lu Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City on December 23.

Defensive lapses made the Vietnam’s U23 team pay severely as they succumbed to a 1-2 loss against Uzbekistan U23, thereby missing out on Group B’s sole ticket to the final match of the Thai M-150 International Friendly Football Tournament 2017.

Vietnamese Grandmaster (GM), Lê Quang Liêm, won a bronze medal at the second International Mind Sports Association Elite Games, ongoing in Huai’an City, Jiangshu, China.

Sport website, Four Four Two, has mentioned four Vietnamese names in its list of 25 best ASEAN players.

The 11th annual Hanoi Half Marathon returned to the capital city on December 10 with the topical theme “Run for Bears – End Bear Farming,” attracting hundreds of runners from 43 countries.

Fox Sports Asia has listed Vietnamese striker Le Cong Vinh as one of ASEAN football’s five greatest-ever international scorers on its website.

Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal will come up against Spain in the standout fixture of the 2018 World Cup group stage, while England were handed an encounter with a dangerous Belgium side in Friday's draw.

Vietnam’s no. 1 weightlifter Thach Kim Tuan established a glorious milestone for Vietnam as he exceptionally swept all three gold medals of the men’s 56kg category at the IWF World Championships 2017.

The first Vietnam Open Paragliding Tournament ended on Sunday with Nguyễn Thế Anh of Hanoi Paragliding Club bagging the top spot.

Vietnamese weightlifters are ready to compete in the World Weightlifting Championships which is scheduled from November 28 to December 5 at the Anaheim Convention Centre in Anaheim, California, the United States.

More than 5,000 athletes from 44 countries participated in the 2017 Techcombank Ho Chi Minh City International Marathon on November 26.

Tran Van Thao has made history by becoming the first Vietnamese to win a World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia title on November 23 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Vietnam’s national men’s football team dropped four spots to 125th place in the latest FIFA rankings.

The former head coach of Vietnam national team Toshiya Miura is negotiating to lead HCM City FC, said HCM City FC's chairman Le Cong Vinh.

The Vietnam Tennis Federation (VTF) will hosted 10 domestic and six international tournaments in 2018, VTF has announced.

Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs, who has been appointed as director of the Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talents FC youth academy, said that he would try to invite the club to Vietnam.

Ly Hoang Nam of Vietnam came second at the Vietnam F2 Futures tennis tournament, which closed in Binh Duong Province on November 19.

China will bid to host the 2030 World Cup, their coach Marcello Lippi said, underlining the country's ambitions to become a leading football power.

Vietnamese football team hosted guests Afghanistan in their clash under the 2019 Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup qualification on November 14.