Indonesia owns the most expensive player in Southeast Asia; Haaland scores 100 goals for Man City, equaling Ronaldo's record

Officially finalizing the friendly match schedule of the Vietnam team before the AFF Cup 2024

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) confirmed that coach Kim Sang-sik and his team will have two friendly matches in October 2024.

Specifically, the Vietnamese team will meet Lebanon and India. These are opponents with the same level as the red team.

These are two matches VFF is preparing for the teachers and students. Coach Kim Sang-siktowards AFF Cup 2024.

Accordingly, the Vietnamese team will face India at 6pm on October 9. On October 15, Quang Hai and his teammates will face Lebanon.

Both friendly matches of the Vietnam team during FIFA Days in October 2024 will take place at Thien Truong Stadium (Nam Dinh).

These are two friendly matches with FIFA points, so the Vietnamese team aims to win all matches to improve their ranking.

During FIFA Days September 2024,Vietnam teamlost both matches against Russia and Thailand and dropped 1 place in the FIFA rankings.

Haaland scores 100 goals for Man City, equaling Ronaldo's record

In the match between Man City and Arsenal in round 5Premier League, Erling Haaland helped the defending champions take the lead with a goal in the 9th minute.

It was his 10th goal in the Premier League this season, a truly impressive performance. This also explains the Norwegian striker's achievement of winning the Golden Boot for two consecutive seasons.

The goal against Arsenal also helped Haaland's scoring record at the Etihad increase to three digits: he has 100 goals in just 105 matches.

Thus, Haaland officially equaled the record of fastest 100 goals for a club held by Cristiano Ronaldo in 2011.

In the 2011-2012 season, which was also his third season at the Santiago Bernabeu, Ronaldo scored 100 goals in 105 games for Real Madrid. Ronaldo's record is said to be difficult to surpass. However, after more than a decade, Haaland repeated this milestone. He did it when he was younger than CR7.

Coach Park Chung-gun confirms farewell to Vietnam shooting team

On his personal Facebook page, coach Park Chung-gun said goodbye to the Vietnamese shooting team.

"It's time for me to say goodbye, but the good memories in Vietnam will remain in my mind forever. I will always love Vietnam, no matter what happens," Coach Park wrote.

The Korean expert also sent his thanks to sports leaders, fans and athletes he has led during a decade of working in Vietnam.

Mr. Park Chung-gun once led shooters Hoang Xuan Vinh to the 2016 Olympic gold medal, shooter Pham Quang Huy to the 2023 Asian Games gold medal and Trinh Thu Vinh to the finals of two shooting events at the 2024 Olympics.

The industry leaders had promised to invite Mr. Park to stay and work long-term, at least until Coach Park retired. However, after the 2024 Paris Olympics, Mr. Park Chung-gun did not accept any invitation from the Department until his contract expired on August 31 and he returned to his country.

On the evening of September 12, nearly 2 weeks after coach Park Chung-gun returned to Korea, Mr. Dang Ha Viet - Director of the Department of Physical Education and Sports sent a private letter to the expert to invite him to extend his contract with the Vietnamese shooting team.

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhung, who invited coach Park Chung-gun to join the Vietnamese shooting team, Mr. Park was very disappointed with the way the industry works.

Coach Park Chung-gun has been working with the Vietnamese shooting team since 2015. He has made great contributions to helping the team qualify for the last three Olympics. At Rio 2016, shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh, with the help of this expert, won a gold medal and a silver medal in the men's 10m and 50m air pistol events.

At the 2022 ASIAD, he helped athlete Pham Quang Huy win the gold medal in the men's 10m air pistol event. This is Vietnam's first shooting gold medal at the Asian Games.

At the 2024 Olympics, Mr. Park kept his promise to have shooters in the finals of the shooting events. Trinh Thu Vinh reached the finals of both events, before finishing fourth in the women's 10m air pistol final and seventh in the women's 25m sport pistol event.

Indonesia owns the most expensive player in Southeast Asia

Two Dutch players, Mees Hilgers and Eliano Reijnders, came to Indonesia to apply for naturalization in early September. With the host country's open policies, both quickly completed the procedures in less than a month.

"Mees Hilgers and Eliano Reijnders will be sworn in as Indonesian citizens on September 30," said Sumardji, director of the Indonesian national teams.

According to Mr. Sumardji, after taking the oath, the two players need to complete the final procedure of transferring the federation (from the Dutch Football Federation to the Indonesian Football Federation) to be able to play with the Indonesian team in the third qualifying round of the 2026 World Cup.

According to the schedule, the registration deadline for the Indonesia - Bahrain match is October 3, one week before the official match kicks off.

"If there are no problems, the federation transfer procedure will take 1-2 days. Thus, Mees Hilgers and Eliano Reijnders will be able to participate in the match against Bahrain," Mr. Sumardji revealed.

Notably, according to Transfermarkt, Mees Hilgers has a transfer value of 7 million euros, higher than the value of the Vietnamese national team's squad in the recent training session - 6.83 million euros, and the squadThailand team(6.43 million euros) or Malaysia (6.38 million euros).

With his successful naturalization to Indonesia, Mees Hilgers became the most expensive player in Southeast Asia, surpassing Perry Tian Hee Ng (3 million euros, Cardiff City Club in the English football championship) of the Singapore team.

Before joining the Indonesian national team, Mees Hilgers will join FC Twente to face Manchester United in the UEFA Europa League on September 26./.