The 2017 season has not yet started, but the reigning V-League champion has been heavily fined.

The 2017 season has not yet started but the Disciplinary Board of the Vietnam Football Federation has had work to do with a rather severe disciplinary decision for Coach Van Sy Son of Hanoi Club.

Assistant Van Sy Son (standing in the front row) reacted strongly to the referee in the 2016 Super Cup match.

The National Super Cup match at Hang Day Stadium on the afternoon of December 29 was worthy of being a high-class match of Vietnamese football, exciting from the beginning to the end with a total of 6 goals scored in the two regular halves. Having to decide the winner by penalty shootout, Than Quang Ninh defeated the home team to win the National Super Cup.

Referee Vo Minh Tri (middle) was criticized.

In addition to the technical drama, the match also left a bitter taste for Hanoi FC. At the end of the first half, because they disagreed with a decision by referee Vo Minh Tri, the home team's coaching staff reacted strongly (Mr. Tri did not observe that the ball had touched a Than Quang Ninh player's foot before going out of bounds, so Hanoi was not awarded a corner kick).

Assistant Van Sy Son was the one who expressed his displeasure the most when he threw a water bottle onto the field and clasped his hands in prayer to the referee.

Coach Van Sy Son (the one with his hand on his chest) was once penalized for reacting to the referee.

For this behavior, Hanoi Club's deputy coach Van Sy Son was fined 10 million VND by the VFF Disciplinary Board and suspended from duty for 4 matches in V-League 2017.

In a recent press conference, Mr. Nguyen Hai Huong - Head of the VFF Disciplinary Board emphasized that from the 2017 season, the Disciplinary Board will increase the penalties for 3 groups of errors, in which the error of reacting to the referee will be handled very strictly.

According to TNO