Thanh Nha is on the list of young Asian talents worth watching at the World Cup; In which matches will VAR be applied in V-League 2023?

Thanh Nha on the list of young Asian talents worth watching at the World Cup

The homepage of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has just posted an article selecting a list of 6 most notable young Asian players at the 2023 World Cup.

Among them, attacking midfielder Nguyen Thi Thanh Nha from the Vietnam women's team was honored to be included in this list.

Before the 2023 Women's World Cup officially kicks off, the AFC has selected six of Asia's best young stars to watch. In addition to Thanh Nha, the list also includes five other names: Mary Fowler (Australia), Shen Mengyu (China), Aoba Fujino (Japan), Casey Phair (Korea) and Isabella Flanigan (Philippines).

AFC introduced Nguyen Thi Thanh Nha as a promising star of Vietnamese women's football and predicted that the 21-year-old midfielder will play an important role in the Vietnamese team at theWomen's World Cup 2023.

In which matches will VAR be applied in V-League 2023?

VPF is taking steps to soon apply VAR technology in some matches of the 2023 season.

With guidance and active support from FIFA, the final steps for VAR to be officially operated in the national professional football tournament system are being carried out by VPF.

In order for referees to gradually get used to VAR technology, based on recommendations from FIFA, in the first phase, VPF Company will select about 3 to 5 matches at Night Wolf V-League 1-2023 to operate matches with VAR.

Matches that are not related to the championship or promotion/relegation will be selected.

Based on the scores of the teams on the current rankings, VPF Company and the Referee Board of the Vietnam Football Federation will coordinate to select matches that meet the criteria recommended by FIFA, and are expected to officially select matches to apply VAR from round 3 of phase 2 of Night Wolf V.League 1-2023.

For the stadiums of matches with VAR, FIFA also requires all stadiums to be geodetically measured using specialized machines, providing accurate dimensions to integrate the virtual offside line for the VAR vehicle technical system.

Vietnam officially has another senior futsal referee from AFC

Futsal referee Huynh Nguyen Thanh has just been officially promoted by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to become a senior AFC futsal referee. This is the second senior AFC futsal referee in Vietnam, after referee Truong Quoc Dung, also from Ho Chi Minh City.

Previously, referee Truong Quoc Dung was also the first Vietnamese to be appointed to officiate at the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia. Currently, Vietnamese football has 50 futsal referees; including 3 FIFA referees and 2 senior AFC referees.

To become a senior AFC futsal referee, Mr. Huynh Nguyen Thanh underwent three close assessments by AFC instructors: The first on October 27, 2022 at the match between Thai Son Nam Club and Sahako Club in the second qualifying round of the 2022 HDBank National Futsal Championship; the second on December 18, 2022 at the match between Black Pearl United Club and Port ASM Gymnasium 6 Thammasat University Rangsit in the 2022 Thailand National Futsal Championship; the third on June 18, 2023 at the match between Bangkok BTS FC Club and Port Futsal Club in the 2023 Thailand National Futsal Championship.

European newspapers praise Coach Mai Duc Chung

Recently, the Spanish newspaper AS published an article about the profiles of 32 coaches at the 2023 Women's World Cup. Accordingly, this newspaper gave Coach Mai Duc Chung many compliments:

"The World Cup will be the last tournament for Mr. Mai Duc Chung as Head Coach of the Vietnam women's team, ending a glorious career with both the women's and men's teams. Many foreign coaches have been hired, but no one can make Vietnam's World Cup dream come true except Mr. Chung. He is famous as a "stand-in" because he has been assigned to temporarily lead the men's and under-23 teams of Vietnam many times during times of crisis, until a new coach is found."

In the history of Vietnamese football, Coach Mai Duc Chung has led both the men's and women's teams since 1997. In addition, the 72-year-old strategist also worked as the Head Coach of teams in the V-League... and achieved great success with women's football.

At the age of 72, Coach Mai Duc Chung has the honor of becoming the oldest coach at the 2023 Women's World Cup. Mr. Chung was the first Head Coach of the Vietnam Women's Team (in 1997), then returned to lead the team in 2003, 2005 and has been with the team continuously since 2016 until now, with the most impressive achievement being 6 SEA Games Gold Medals.