Hai Phong FC receives great news before V-League 2024/25; MU faces Mourinho's team in Europa League
Hai Phong FC received very good news before V-League 2024/25; MU faced Mourinho's team in Europa League; V-League was reinforced with 2 more VAR cars... are notable sports news in the past 24 hours.
Hai Phong FC receives great news before V-League 2024/25
Ahead of the 2024/25 V-League, Hai Phong FC parted ways with captain Mpande (who joined Nam Dinh Steel). However, coach Chu Dinh Nghiem's team strengthened its defense by welcoming back central defender Bui Tien Dung (from Hanoi Police) and successfully borrowing a series of young players from Nutifood.
The good news for Hai Phong FC before the V-League 2024/25 is that they have received support from a series of generous sponsors. Most recently, Hai Phong FC and Starbalm Vietnam have just signed a cooperation agreement to become strategic partners. With this handshake, Starbalm helps Hai Phong players use a comprehensive solution package for sports and exercise care. Medical products to prevent and treat injuries such as hot spray, cold spray, hot gel, cold gel support Coach Chu Dinh Nghiem and his team in training and competition, especially helping to prevent injuries and quickly recover physical strength.
In addition, the partner is committed to providing medical products, foreign experts to support, organizing medical seminars and accompanying Hai Phong FC in building a fan community for the Hai Phong team; other health care packages, suitable for the club and suitable for the training curriculum of Hai Phong FC and the youth of this team.
"We hope to help Hai Phong FC players not only maximize their performance with European quality medical supplies but also have the opportunity to access the most advanced sports science," Mr. Ly Chanh Minh - Communications Director of Starbalm Vietnam, affirmed at the ceremony announcing the strategic partnership with Hai Phong FC.
MU face Mourinho's team in Europa League
The draw of luck has placed MU against coach Mourinho's Fenerbahce in the group stage of the 2024/25 Europa League according to the new version.
Of the remaining 6 opponents in the group stage, Porto is rated the highest and will cause many difficulties for Ten Hag and his team. Meanwhile, other names such as Ranger, Bodo Glimt, PAOK, Viktoria Plzen, Twente or FC Steaua Bucuresti are all below MU's level.
The Red Devils of Manchester are the number 1 candidate in the Europa League 2024/25. Besides, there are teams that can go deep such as Tottenham, Porto, Lazio, AS Roma...
Other English football representatives Tottenham will face difficult away matches, against Galatasaray and Hoffenheim.
The Europa League will have the same format as the new Champions League, with 36 teams playing eight matches in the group stage.
The top eight teams will advance to the last 16, while the teams ranked 9th to 24th will play a play-off (2 home and away matches) to compete for the remaining eight tickets to the knockout round.
Another notable change is that no Champions League teams will be relegated to the Europa League from this season. The 2024/25 Europa League final will be held in Bilbao on 21 May 2025.
The reason why Bui Hoang Viet Anh is seriously injured but still has to join the Vietnam national team
On the afternoon of August 30, the Vietnamese team gathered at the Grand Plaza Hotel to prepare for international friendly matches against Thailand and Russia. Bui Hoang Viet Anh was still present at the team's headquarters despite his serious injury.
Viet Anh suffered a knee ligament injury while training for the Hanoi Police Club. Initially, VFF announced that this player would be removed and replaced by Giap Tuan Duong. However, Mr. Kim Sang-sik wanted to directly check on Viet Anh's injury.
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The 1999-born center-back plays a very important role for the Vietnamese team. In the coming months, the Vietnamese team will have a number of important matches, especially the 2024 AFF Cup. Therefore, Mr. Kim needs to know clearly about Viet Anh's recovery ability. If this player does not recover in time, coach Kim Sang-sik will have to try a new plan in defense.
The Vietnamese team began training on August 30 at the Vietnam Youth Football Training Center. Coach Kim Sang-sik and his team have 6 days to prepare for the opening match against the Russian team at the LPBank Cup 2024.
This international friendly tournament organized by the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) is considered a football event that attracts the attention of a large number of fans and is of great significance to the Vietnam national team in its preparation for the 2024 Southeast Asian Football Championship, taking place at the end of the year.
V-League gets 2 more VAR cars
On August 30, the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) handed over two VAR vehicles, part of a FIFA-sponsored project, to the Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF), thereby increasing the total number of VAR vehicles serving national professional football tournaments to four.
VAR (Video Assistant Referee) technology has been officially applied in V-League from round 3 of phase 2 of the 2023 season. This is an important step to improve fairness and accuracy in matches.
The implementation of VAR has received support from clubs and fans, with the hope that the technology will help referees make more accurate decisions and make matches fairer.
Besides, when VAR is put into operation, domestic football tournaments will be improved in quality, professionalism and the image of the tournament will also be enhanced.
The goal of VFF and VPF is to apply VAR to all matches in the V-League as soon as possible. Therefore, in parallel with increasing the number of VAR vehicles, VFF and VPF also coordinate to organize training courses on VAR technology for referees, assistant referees and technicians to master how to use it./.
