Nghe An Football Federation held its first Congress

Attending the congress were comrades: Duong Nghiep Khoi - General Secretary of Vietnam Football Federation; Ho Le Ngoc - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Internal Affairs Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee; representatives of leaders of a number of departments, agencies and branches.

In recent years, the sports movement in general and football in particular have received attention and investment from the Party Committee and authorities at all levels of Nghe An to develop strongly and widely among all subjects, ages, localities and sectors.

In Nghe An, there are currently 302 football centers of different levels, 1,134 clubs, 2,016 teams, more than 100,000 people regularly practicing football, 1,679 training grounds of all kinds...; creating abundant resources to provide athletes for football training teams and clubs nationwide.

Besides, Song Lam Nghe An is the strongest youth football training center in the country, with a tradition of more than 40 years of development, receiving investment and development orientation from provincial leaders towards training amateur talent lines in districts, cities and towns (25 classes, age U9-U10).

The Department of Culture and Sports also coordinates with the Department of Education and Training to bring football into schools; organize youth football tournaments and amateur gifted football tournaments to develop football, thereby discovering football talents early and selecting and training them centrally in the province.

The province assigned the Department of Culture and Sports to contract youth football training from U11 to U21 with 215 athletes.

Because of that, the establishment and organization of the congressNghe An Football FederationThe first time was an urgent issue that received consensus from all classes of people, marking a new development step of Nghe An football in the new period.

The establishment of Nghe An Football Federation will have the task of gathering and mobilizing all resources and efforts of organizations and individuals in society to promote the movement of practicing and competing in football to improve health, train willpower, moral qualities, in accordance with the cultural traditions of Nghe An, especially for teenagers, students; continue to maintain the achievements of youth football training and improve the ranking of Song Lam Nghe An Football Club, contributing to the implementation of political, economic, social, security and defense tasks.

Attending and giving a speech at the congress, comrade Duong Nghiep Khoi said that the Congress of Nghe An Football Federation is an important event, attracting the attention of fans and public opinion; an opportunity to summarize and evaluate the achieved results and propose directions, tasks and solutions for the development of Nghe An football in the coming years.

The General Secretary of the Vietnam Football Federation hopes that the Executive Committee of the Nghe An Football Federation for the 2023-2028 term will always allocate appropriate operating funds, actively and effectively contribute to the activities of the Federation, unite, be determined to strive for the strong development of the Nghe An Football Federation in the coming term, to meet the concerns of the leaders, as well as the expectations of the majority of Nghe An football fans.

With its responsibility, the Vietnam Football Federation pledges to create all favorable conditions and support Nghe An Football Federation in particular and member football federations in general to successfully implement the goals and tasks set out in the new term.

The congress unanimously elected 31 comrades to the first executive committee for the 2023-2028 term.

Comrade Ho Le Ngoc - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee was elected to hold the position of Honorary President of Nghe An Football Federation for the first time for the 2023 - 2028 term.

The Congress also elected 5 comrades to hold the position of Vice President, including:

1. Mr. Tran Trung Tuyen - Nghe An Amateur Football Association

2. Mr. Nguyen Dinh Nghia - Deputy General Director of Song Lam Nghe An

3. Mr. Nguyen Huu Phuong - Head of Sports Management Department, Nghe An Department of Culture and Sports

4. Mr. Le Giap - Chief Representative of Legal Life Magazine in the Central region

5. Mr. Mai Hung Cuong - Director of Thanh Vinh Nghe An Fire Prevention and Fighting Equipment Joint Stock Company.

The Congress also elected Mr. Vu Van Nam - Vice Principal of Nghe An Sports Talent School to hold the position of General Secretary; Mr. Nguyen Van Phe - Representative of Dan Tri Newspaper in Nghe An to hold the position of Deputy General Secretary of the Federation.