Sport

Manchester City FC officially will play a friendly match on July 27 at Hanoi's My Dinh Stadium.

Tickets for the friendly match between Vietnam and English giant Manchester City on July 27 will sell at a record price.

The Jack Nicklaus Academy of Golf will open in Hanoi's Soc Son district this autumn.

Captain Phung Ngoc Vinh Quy scored twice to help Khanh Hoa beat Thua Thien-Hue 2-1 in the curtain-raiser of the National Beach Football Championship yesterday.

Vietnam beat defending champions Thailand 2-1 in the final to win the Asian Football Confederation U14 Girls’ Regional Championship in Hanoi on June 28.

Vietnamese swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien was a phenomenon at the just-concluded 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore.

Nguyen Thi Huyen of Vietnam won gold at the Asian Grand Prix Athletics at Thammasat University Sports Complex near Bangkok, Thailand.

President Truong Tan Sang yesterday congratulated the nation's athletes for their achievements at the recently concluded Southeast Asian Games 28 in Singapore, saying they would motivate development of the sports sector in Vietnam.

AS Roma have agreed to compete with the national football team in late July, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) announced.

Vietnamese athletes amassed 222 gold medals at international sports competitions in the first six months of 2015, according to the General Department of Sports and Physical Training.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the Ministry of Education and Training signed a cooperation agreement on June 18 to expand the Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV) programme across the country.

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) and the education and training ministry signed an agreement on June 18 to expand the Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV) programme.

Yet again, Vietnamese chess masters were successful in maintaining their 16-year domination of the Southeast Asian region, sweeping away 68 gold, 44 silver and 29 bronze medals at the 16th ASEAN+ Age-Group Chess Championships.

Singaporean New Paper on June 17 chose Anh Viet one of the best foreign athletes and the sole one who made a similar splash at the OCBC Aquatic Centre as the host athlete Joseph Schooling.

Vietnam brought only 382 athletes to the 28th Southeast Asian Games 2015 in Singapore but won 73 gold medals, 53 silvers and 60 bronzes to finish the region’s biggest sports festival in the top three for the seventh time.

Vietnam won one more silver and three bronze medals to affirm the third place in medal tally at the Southeast Asian Games in Singapore yesterday.

Vietnam won eight gold medals yesterday and ensured their target of being in the top three at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Singapore.

Vietnam has so far taken 61 gold medals at the ongoing 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore after athletics, shooting and taekwondo added to the pile.

Do Thi Thao and Duong Van Thai completed their doubles, while the quartet runner broke a 24-year-old record in the women's 4x400m relay.