Nguyen Huy Hoang becomes Vietnam's number 1 athlete; Lukaku returns, Chelsea defeats Tottenham

Nguyen Huy Hoang becomes Vietnam's number 1 athlete

With a score of 1178, swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang won first place in the 2021 Best Athlete vote.Vietnam sports.

Huy Hoang is the first athlete of the team to achieve the A standard to participate in the Tokyo Olympics. At the Olympics, the athlete from Quang Binh ranked 20/34 in the 800m freestyle and 12/29 in the 1,500m freestyle.

In addition, Huy Hoang also won 2 gold medals at the national 25m swimming championship. At the recent 25m world swimming championship held in the UAE, Huy Hoang did not win a medal but broke his own national records in the 400m and 1500m distances.

Nguyen Huy Hoang won the title of National Outstanding Athlete 2021.

With what he has achieved in 2021, Huy Hoang's title of National Outstanding Athlete is completely deserved.

Coming in second in the vote was Nguyen Thi Oanh (athletics) with 1030 points. The "golden girl" of Vietnamese sports won 5 gold medals and broke an 18-year-old national record in the 5,000m race at the 2021 National Athletics Championship.

Athlete Truong Thi Kim Tuyen (taekwondo) finished third with 698 points. The next positions belonged to Huynh Nhu (women's football, Ho Chi Minh City), Quach Thi Lan (athletics, Thanh Hoa)...

The only representative of the Vietnamese team in the top 10 is Quang Hai (9th place, 348 points).

In the category of outstanding coach, coach Pham Minh Giang (Vietnam futsal team) won with 394 points. Coach Park Hang Seo of Vietnam team ranked 3rd with 298 points.

Meanwhile, with 1 silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and 1 silver medal at the 2021 World Championship, athlete Le Van Cong (weightlifting) had no rivals in the 2021 vote for the best disabled athlete.

Coach Le Quang Thai, teacher of Le Van Cong, is also the best coach for disabled sports.

Lukaku returns, Chelsea defeats Tottenham

On the day Lukaku returned to the starting lineup, Chelsea played brilliantly and defeated Tottenham 2-0 in the first leg of the English League Cup semi-final.

Early morning of January 6 (Hanoi time), Lukaku and his teammates won convincingly at home against Tottenham in the first leg of the 2021/22 League Cup semi-final.

Lukaku started the match after apologizing to Chelsea.

Coach Antonio Conte returned to Stamford Bridge with the goal of defeating his old club to help Tottenham reach the Carabao Cup final. However, Chelsea with home advantage was too difficult a challenge for the "Roosters". The 0-2 defeat made the North London team face many difficulties in the second leg on January 13. In 37 trips to the "The Blues" home ground in all competitions, Tottenham won only 2 matches.

Barcelona struggled to beat third-tier team

Barca opened their Copa del Rey title defence with a 2-1 win over Linares in the round of 32.

Coach Xavi must field his strongest squad to beat Linares.

Barca played in a deadlock and were unexpectedly led by host Linares after a header by Hugo Diaz in the 19th minute. "Blagurana" had to wait until the second half to turn the game around with goals from Ousmane Dembele (63') and Ferran Jutgla (69').

Former assistant of coach Park Hang-seo unexpectedly reappears in V-League

Former Vietnam National Team Fitness Coach Bae Ji-won has just officially become the new staff of Viettel FC with a 2-year contract.

Fitness coach Bae Ji-won shared: “I received invitations from other teams, but the offer from Viettel FC was the most convincing to me. This is a team with good results, an ideal training system and infrastructure.

Taking on the role of Viettel’s fitness coach is a new challenge for me as the team is the champion of the V-League. And my goal is to help the team continue to win this title.”

Although he has just become acquainted with the team, coach Bae Jiwon is very confident: "I have information aboutViettel FCDuring the time I worked for the national team, I understood very well the Viettel FC players on the team.

Coach Bae Ji-won in the latest training session of Viettel Club.

I had my first training session with the players. As a fitness coach, of course my job is to improve the quality of the team. I will try my best to make these things better for each player with each day at Viettel FC".

Mr. Bae completed the highest level of Football course at the Cologne Sports University in Germany, and received a professional certificate from the Asian Football Confederation. He has experience leading teams in the K.League such as Jeon Buk, Busan, Ulsan and Gangwon, and was the head coach of Ryong FC, TTM Phchit FC... in Thailand.

After winning the 2018 AFF Cup with Vietnam, fitness coach Bae Jiwon went to Malaysia, then moved to Hong Kong. In the 2019-2021 season, Mr. Bae Ji-won was the fitness coach for Kitchee, the most successful team in the Hong Kong Premier League.

Director of Viettel Sports Center Do Manh Dung shared: “Physical trainer Bae Jiwon has a lot of experience in Europe, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and especially in Vietnam.

He is someone who understands the physical condition of the players, especially Southeast Asian players, and will be an indispensable piece of Viettel Club in the coming seasons."