Euro 2024: Ukraine suffered a crushing defeat against Romania; Coach Park Hang-seo's team lost 5 billion VND in bonuses
Ukraine lost on the first day of Euro 2024; Bac Ninh FC - the team coached by Park Hang-seo as a senior advisor - lost to Ho Chi Minh City Youth in a penalty shootout. These are the outstanding sports news in the past 24 hours.
Coach Park Hang-seo's team lost 5 billion in bonuses because of "evil spirit" Do Merlo
Bac Ninh FC - the team with coach Park Hang-seo as senior advisor lost to Ho Chi Minh City Youth in a penalty shootout.
Although playing in the Second Division, Bac Ninh is considered a “new giant” of Vietnamese football, including a 5-year contract with Coach Park Hang-seo - a senior advisor. In the promotion final, Bac Ninh FC announced a record bonus of 5 billion VND if Coach Ngo Quang Truong and his team defeated Ho Chi Minh City Youth.

The heat of the final match was huge with coach Park Hang-seo in attendance and a large number of Bac Ninh fans at Ha Tinh Stadium. However, Bac Ninh FC played inconsistently and quickly conceded a goal in the 25th minute. A Bac Ninh player made a mistake when fouling Do Merlo in the penalty area and the referee consulted VAR to award Tre TP.HCM a penalty.
After 2 rounds of 2-2 draw, the two teams had to decide the winner on penalty kicks. Bac Ninh players only successfully shot once out of 4 series, while Ho Chi Minh City Youth had 3 successful shots.
In the end, Ho Chi Minh City Youth Club won 5-3 against Bac Ninh to win the right to be promoted to the First Division in 2025.
Ukraine defeated by Romania at Euro 2024
Conceding two quick goals, Ukraine's spirit clearly dropped, their coordination continuously made mistakes, while Romania played very confidently, actively attacked and created many storms in front of Lunin's goal.

Despite trying hard to find an honorary goal, Ukraine was still unsuccessful, thereby accepting empty-handedness on the first day of Euro 2024.
Vietnam Sports has the 12th ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics
On the evening of June 17, Le Quoc Phong entered the quarterfinals of the men's individual event at the Paris Olympics archery qualifying round held in Türkiye. Because this event takes 5 places to the Olympics in Paris, if the Vietnamese athlete wins, he will get a ticket to France.

Facing archer Ram Krishna Saha (Bangladesh), Quoc Phong maintained his stable performance and won 6-2, thereby officially registering his name on the list of Vietnamese athletes who have qualified to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Le Quoc Phong is in the best form of his career. Previously, in April, this athlete made history for Vietnamese archery when for the first time an archer entered the top 4 of the World Cup. This is a tournament that gathers all the world's top athletes, with the important nature of earning Olympic team points. In addition, Le Quoc Phong also had the honor of facing his idol - former world number 1 Lee Woo Seok (Korea).
The popularity of the "beer belly" striker attracts attention at EURO 2024
Martin Adam (29 years old) is a familiar face to Korean football fans when he joined Ulsan HD in 2022 and has many impressive achievements.

According to football websites, Adam is over 1.90m tall and weighs around 86kg. Based on the images in the EURO match, many social media users said that this player is "overweight" and has a "beer belly". Comments mocked Adam's appearance, saying that he looked more like "Thor", "a nightclub bouncer" or "a rugby player than a football player".
While many fans at EURO are unfamiliar with the name Martin Adam, most Korean football fans know this player, according toThe Korea Herald. The 29-year-old striker is indeed a familiar face in the land of kimchi as a regular player and top scorer for the top-ranked club in the Korean First Division (K. League 1).
Adam finished the 2022 season with 9 goals and 4 assists in 15 appearances. In the 2023 season, he had 7 goals and 4 assists. The striker continued to score 3 goals and 1 assist in 10 appearances in the 2024 season, which began in March. Adam was also the first player to score a hat-trick in the 2023-24 AFC Champions League, now renamed the AFC Champions League Elite.