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(Baonghean) - On July 27, Vietnamese football fans will have the opportunity to witness the match between the Vietnamese national team and the famous football team Man City from the foggy country. This is a great opportunity for Vietnamese players to compete with football stars around the world who are playing for the rich team of Man City.

Man City arrived in Hanoi at around 6:30 p.m., but Vietnamese fans had been waiting for them for nearly 2 hours before.

Man City coming to Vietnam to compete is a great gift for football fans as well as our players. However, unlike previous times when we invited teams such as FC Porto (2004), Barca B (2005), Olympiakos (2009), Olympic Brazil (2008) and Arsenal (2013)... we all prepared time, arranged the competition schedule for the clubs and gathered the national team. This time Man City came to Vietnam in a very spontaneous way. That was when Mr. Hien, on a business trip abroad, heard the news that this blue team would cancel the friendly match with Indonesia because the national team of this country had just been banned from competing by FIFA. As a businessman, Mr. Hien thought of the benefits in polishing the image and brand, so he invited this team to Vietnam.

The partner, Man City, was "sleepy and met a blanket" and immediately nodded. Everything was decided very quickly. Immediately after that, there were meetings between the Vietnam Football Federation and the partner, Man City. To meet the requirements of this famous team, VFF agreed to change the match schedule in V.League 2015. Accordingly, the 18th round, instead of being played on Saturday or Sunday as usual, was moved to Thursday afternoon. This change in match schedule has led to a series of consequences for the travel of the teams. The number of spectators coming to the stadium as well as watching the matches on television is also much less than on holidays. Many sponsors for V.League have expressed their dissatisfaction with this way of working of VFF, just because of a friendly match with a club, it disrupted the plan of the country's top tournament. The clubs also complained about having to schedule matches early for the match against Man City and the fact that some players heard rumors that their names would be playing against the world's top stars, so they kept their places to join the national team, not playing their best, leading to results like Binh Duong losing to HAGL, SLNA losing to Khanh Hoa...

Some people also think that in order to have a match with the world's top team, we should accept those difficulties. But it is also sad that while we are loudly advertising for free for the ManCity team and the sponsor for this team to come to Vietnam to play, on the home page of this team, there is only a single line of notice that this team will have a match in Vietnam one day or another. Different from the quite detailed information that this website talks about the friendly matches with other teams and clubs during their tour.

There was no “ticket fever” like when Arsenal came to Vietnam with the phenomenon of “running man” - Vu Xuan Tien, famous all over the world. But anyway, we hope that, with what we are willing to trade, the match between Man City will bring a new wind to Vietnamese football!

Duc Dung