Vietnam team moves up in FIFA rankings in October; Indonesia confirms not to host 2034 World Cup with Australia
(Baonghean.vn) - Vietnam national football team moves up on FIFA rankings in October; Indonesia confirms not to host World Cup 2034 with Australia; Liverpool wins "small hand"... are notable sports news in the past 24 hours.
Europa League results today October 27: Liverpool wins "small hand"
This morning (October 27), Liverpool hosted Toulouse at home in the third match of Group E of the Europa League 2023/2024. As expected by experts, the Reds created an overwhelming game and convincingly defeated their opponents.
In the 9th minute, Diogo Jota had a great dribble past the opponent's defenders to score the opening goal for Liverpool. However, the home team's joy did not last too long. Because in the 16th minute, the Reds' defense made a mistake in the offside trap, allowing Thijs Dallinga to score the equalizer 1-1.
In the 30th minute, Wataru Endo headed in a dangerous header from Trent Alexander-Arnold's pass to make it 2-1. Before the end of the first half, Curtis Jones assisted Darwin Núñez to score the third goal for the Anfield team.
In the second half, minute 65, Ryan Gravenberch scored the fourth goal for Liverpool after Darwin Núñez's shot hit the post and bounced out earlier.
The rain of goals at Anfield ended with Mohamed Salah's goal in the 90+2 minute. In the end, Liverpool won 5-1 against Toulouse to lead the group with 9 absolute points.
Vietnam team moves up on FIFA rankings in October
In October 2023, the Vietnam National Team played 3 friendly matches, but 2 of them were official FIFA matches. They were a 0-2 loss to the Chinese National Team and a 0-6 loss to the Korean National Team. The 0-2 loss to the Uzbekistan National Team was not counted in the FIFA rankings.
After 2 losses to 2 strong opponents, the Vietnam team was deducted 6.89 points in the FIFA rankings. According to the latest FIFA rankings, the Vietnam team was deducted points, but still increased 1 place to rank 94th in the world.
The Vietnamese team lost two matches but still got promoted because some teams ranked higher in the last FIFA Days did not play well and had more points deducted, so the "Golden Stars" benefited.
In Southeast Asia,Vietnam teammaintain the No. 1 position. Meanwhile, Thailand ranked 2nd in Southeast Asia and 112th in the world. The "War Elephants" were deducted 4.06 points, but still maintained their ranking.
Vietnam won 5 more silver medals at the Asian Para Games
On October 26, at the 2023 Asian Para Games held in Hangzhou (China), Vietnamese disabled chess players won 5 silver medals for the Vietnamese sports delegation.
Accordingly, in the B1 disability category standard chess content, in the 7th and final game, Vietnamese chess player Le Van Viet had a draw with Yadi Sopian (Indonesia). With the above result, Le Van Viet ranked second overall, receiving a Silver Medal. In addition, in the B1 disability category women's standard chess individual content, chess player Pham Thi Huong also won a Silver Medal for Vietnamese sports.
In the standard chess team event: Players Dao Tuan Kiet, Dinh Tuan Son, and Le Van Viet won the Silver Medal in the standard chess team event, disability category B1. The Indonesian men's chess team won the Gold Medal in this event. Meanwhile, players Dao Thi Le Xuan, Pham Thi Huong, and Tran Ngoc Loan also won the Silver Medal in the women's standard chess event, disability category B1. The champion of this event was the Iranian women's chess team. The Vietnamese PI women's standard chess team also won the Silver Medal on the competition day.
In addition to the above results, the Vietnamese sports delegation also won an individual bronze medal from player Doan Thu Huyen in the PI standard chess event and a bronze medal for the women's team in the B2/B3 standard chess category.
Up to now, the achievements of the Vietnamese Sports Delegation for the Disabled are 6 silver medals and 5 bronze medals.
Indonesia confirms not to host 2034 World Cup with Australia
On October 26, President of the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) Erick Thohir confirmed that the country will abandon its bid to host the 2034 World Cup with Australia due to the tight deadline.
Earlier, Mr. Thohir revealed that PSSI had discussed with Australia to bid for the right to host the 2034 World Cup, and also left open the possibility of inviting Malaysia and Singapore to co-host. In addition to Indonesia and Australia, Saudi Arabia has announced plans to bid for this tournament.
According to Mr. Thohir, after giving up the bid, PSSI gave its support to Saudi Arabia. Mr. Thohir added that Indonesia is still trying to move towards other events of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA).
The 2034 World Cup is scheduled to take place between June and July 2034. FIFA will accept applications from Asian and Oceanian countries interested in hosting the tournament between October 4 and 31./.