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Two November Fixtures in Ninh Binh and a Vietnam Attack With Only One Reference PointThe training session on 24 October at Thien Truong Stadium in Ninh Binh ran...
Asian Cup 2027 Is Not Postponed: Coach Kim Sang Sik Waits on Xuan Son, and a System With One FulcrumOn the morning of 24 October, the Asian Cup 2027 fixture list still sat...
Vietnam to Host the 2027 AFF U23 Championship: The Invoice That Never Made the Press ReleaseIn June 2027, Vietnam's U23 side must complete the AFC U23 qualifiers. In Jul...
Asian Cup 2027 Schedule: As AFC Publishes Dates, Vietnam Prepares for a UAE GambleOn January 11, 2027, Vietnam opens its Asian Cup campaign against the UAE in...
AFC Publishes Asian Cup 2027 Schedule: Vietnam's Group E Equation Starts With UAEOn January 11, 2027, in a Saudi Arabian city whose name the organizers have n...
Kim Sang Sik and the Attacking Puzzle: Four Scorers, One System Still UndefinedAfter four rounds, Vietnam's attacking line has produced six goals spread...
Vietnam in Pot 2 for the 2030 World Cup Qualifiers: Reading the Advantage Correctly Before the December 15, 2026 DrawVietnam is 99th in the world. Thailand is 93rd. On the Asian ranking, Vietnam...
Vietnam in Pot 2 for 2030 World Cup Qualifiers: The December 15 Draw and the Real Break Point in Pot 3At 3 p.m. on December 15, in Kuala Lumpur, the AFC organizers will drop 36...
ASEAN Cup 2026: When Vietnam Ran Out of Ideas Against the Low BlockThe 78th minute of the third-place match: the ball was shifted to the right...
Vietnam National Team to Face Chinese Taipei and Kyrgyzstan at Thien Truong Stadium: Two Tests, One Generational Transition RoadmapVietnam's national team returns to action during the November FIFA window wit...
ASEAN Cup 2026 Third-Place Match: Malaysia Tells the 6-0 Story, but the Real Hole Is in the Dressing RoomOn June 30, 2026, in Moscow, I stood in the Luzhniki stands and watched Kylia...
Viet Anh Reports Good News, Hoang Hen Out: The Height Problem and Aerial Gap Facing Vietnam Against MalaysiaGood news and bad news sit side by side in the same pre-match bulletin. Bui...
Vietnam before the third-place match with Malaysia: When the spine thins out, two days of rest become the biggest variableA training session without a ball. Only the gym, the treadmills, the weights,...
Vietnam 4-2 Pakistan: How the Bench Masked a First-Half DefectThe first half ended with no goals for Vietnam. The opponent was Pakistan,...
Kim Sang Sik and the Last Match of Trust: Vietnam vs Pakistan, 3 Points or a Promise Never WrittenAt the press conference in Jakarta that day, Kim Sang Sik did not open with...
Vietnam's Attack and the Unfillable Gap: When Two Strikers DisappearDecember 20, 2026. I rewind the footage of Vietnam's match against Thailand i...
Vietnam Lose Both Pham Gia Hung and Xuan Son: An Empty Forward Line and the Survival Equation Against PakistanA raw data table tells a clearer story than any commentary. In the ASEAN Cup...
Decoding Vietnam's Do-or-Die Match in Jakarta: When the Final Door Closes, Which Sediment Layer Will Be Revealed?For forty years I have been documenting Vietnam's journey to the brink of...
Vietnam's Three Remaining Forwards: The Space Problem After the 0-2 Loss to ThailandIn Bandung there was a moment the scoreboard never recorded. In the 63rd minu...
After Chanathip's Embrace: Two Goals Conceded, a Silence, and the Question of Vietnam's MettleThat night, the thing I remember most was not a goal. It was an embrace....
Without Xuan Son, Vietnam Loses Its Soul on the Bandung PitchI don't write to be loved, I write to be read. And on that night in Bandung, ...
Le Pham Thanh Long and Vietnam's New Midfield Axis Against Thailand: The Beat Lives in the GapsFrom the press room in Buriram, I stepped out while questions about the 5-3-2...
The 5-3-2 Paradox: Kim Sang Sik's Gamble and the Midfield Trio That Has Never Played TogetherIn my notebook, there is a page dated December 15, 2026. Nothing special — ju...
Nguyen Xuan Son and Four and a Half Weeks: When a Hamstring Becomes a Power NegotiationMinute 60. No contact. Nobody within three meters of him. On the replay, Nguy...
Vietnam vs Thailand in Bandung: Xuan Son's Pre-dawn Departure and the Unverified 87% EquationIn the early hours of September 28, Nguyen Xuan Son left the Vietnam national...
Xuan Son's Hamstring Tear: Four to Six Weeks and a Quiet Transfer of Power Nobody NamedIn the 60th minute, on the pitch in Bandung, Nguyen Xuan Son sat down. Nobody...
Vietnam Beat the Philippines: Three Debutants and the Control Problem After the Opening GoalIn the 25th minute, Dinh Bac collected the ball inside the Philippine penalty...
Vietnam 1-0 Philippines: Three Days of Preparation, One Goal, and an Unresolved GambleIn the 23rd minute, when Schneider planted his left foot into the ball from t...
Dinh Bac and the Captain's Armband: When Symbolism Outweighs the 1-0 WinThe transfer market has no secrets, only people too lazy to read the data. On...
Vietnam vs Philippines: The Opening Match Problem Is Not TacticalA week before the Group B opener, I reopened the Philippines' 23-man list and...
Three Training Sessions, One Long Flight and a Height Equation: Vietnam Opens ASEAN Cup 2026 in Bandung Against the PhilippinesWhen Kim Sang Sik's squad touched down in Bandung, what they carried was not...
The FIFA Window and How It Flattens Vietnam's AdvantageOn the evening of September 25, 2026, in Hamburg, a bulletin barely one page...
Vietnam U23 vs South Korea U23 in the 2026 Asian Games Quarter-Final: Decoding the Match Through Data and PsychologyAt 17:30 Vietnam time on September 25, the Vietnam U23 national team steps in...
Nguyen Quang Hai withdraws from FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026: The crack of 'Vietnamese Messi' and Kim Sang Sik's unsolved equationThe white shoe lay quietly in the corner of the dressing room, next to the...
Inside U23 Vietnam's 2-0 Win: Xuan Bac, the Black Shirt, and the Uzbekistan TestFrom the 74th Minute to Uzbekistan: A Victory That Demands Slow Reading In th...
Dinh Hong Vinh's Black Shirt and the 74th-Minute Breath of Vietnam U23There is a moment in the Vietnam U23 dressing room before the match against t...
Adou Minh and Williams Minh Hoang: Two Overseas-Vietnamese Pieces in Kim Sang Sik's SquadWhen Vietnam's national team squad list was released, two names held me longe...
Nguyen Xuan Son Receives Luxury Electric SUV Worth 600 Million VND as National Team Reward After AFF Cup 2026 HeroicsToday, in Hanoi, Nguyen Xuan Son officially received a special gift from the...
Chanathip's Return: The 'Thai Messi' and the Golden Generation PuzzleBusan, a late autumn afternoon. I sit in my usual coffee shop, my phone buzzi...
ASEAN Cup 2026: Is Vietnam's championship masking an attacking efficiency decline?On the night of December 15, 2026, at Rajamangala Stadium, Vietnam lifted the...
