The war of words between Mr. Duc and Mr. Tu before the VFF election

In the list of personnel preparing to participate in the election of the VFF Executive Committee for the 8th term announced by the personnel subcommittee, Mr. Doan Nguyen Duc's name is not on it..

According to himLe Hung Dung - current President of VFF and also head of the organization's personnel subcommittee - said that the legal department called Mr. Nguyen Tan Anh - head of the HAGL football team - to inform him.There is a club that nominated Mr. Duc for the position of Vice President in charge of finance for the 8th term. After asking for his opinion, Mr. Tan Anh replied that Mr. Duc did not participate so his name should not be put on the list.

However, replyVnExpress,Mr. Duc affirmed: "In principle, when an organization nominates me for a certain position, VFF still has to put my name in. After that, whether I withdraw or not is my own business. The personnel board has done the wrong procedure. Because I only asked to withdraw from VFF in the previous term, but I did not say I would withdraw in this new term."

The owner of the mountain town football team submitted a resignation letter from the VFF after the U22 Vietnam team failed to win the 2017 SEA Games Gold Medal. However, the VFF has not approved his resignation letter, but encouraged this businessman to serve out his seventh term. "I am not very interested in the new term, and I affirm that I still maintain my stance of withdrawing from the VFF," the owner of the HAGL Club emphasized.

The wave started to rise fromVFF Executive Committee meeting in Hanoi on March 16, whereMr. Duc was upset when his name was not on the list even thoughnominated by Kim Toan Da Nang Futsal Clubtake officeVice President in charge of finance, term VIII (2018-2020).

He also publicly announcedoppose Mr. Tran Anh Tu's candidacy for the position of VFF Vice President of Finance. Mr. TuCurrently holds the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of VPF, Head of the Executive Board of V-League 2018 and Chairman of Thai Son Nam Futsal Club.

According to the owner of HAGL, he is concerned that Mr. Tu will manipulate Vietnamese football by holding too many positions. He alsoHe believes that Mr. Tu - the person who brought Vietnamese futsal to the World Cup for the first time - does not have football expertise, so running for VFF is unreasonable.

“Futsal is completely unrelated to football. Tran Anh Tu has never participated in professional football. This is a very harsh and complicated playground, not simple at all,” he said, emphasizing that he would give up football if Mr. Tu was elected.

In response to attacks from Mr. Duc, Mr. Tran Anh Tu wrote a letter to the newspapers.. The letter is titled “Please don’t give up football”, in which there is a paragraph: “For me, when I consider every position as a contribution, no matter what the result, as long as my efforts are appreciated, I will continue to contribute to Vietnamese football”.

“Once again with the story of giving up, many people, including me, have felt regretful the previous times when Mr. Duc mentioned the possibility of leaving football. Luckily, that has not happened yet, and I hope this time is the same. Because football, in my opinion, should only be the addition of contributing hands, not the subtraction of different opinions of people with the same goal,” Mr. Tu continued to write with the implication of advising Mr. Duc not to give up football.