Tien Anh, Minh Vuong, Tan Tai soon started training in Hanoi; Coach Kiatisak packed his bags and returned to Thailand.

Tien Anh, Minh Vuong, Tan Tai start training early in Hanoi

Although the Vietnamese team will not gather until August 5, some players who arrived in Hanoi early, such as Tien Anh, Minh Vuong, and Tan Tai, have already started training at the Vietnam Youth Football Training Center.

Immediately afterwards, on his personal Facebook story, Tien Anh posted a photo of the 4 players together, along with the caption: "Day 2, the sky in Hanoi is still blue, the wind is still fresh. This 3 vs 1 match was a bit intense, so we were a bit tired when we got home that night."

“First distance, second speed”, these players took advantage of the opportunity to go to the Vietnam Youth Football Training Center (where the Vietnam national team will also train in the near future) to get familiar with the field, warm up and practice on their own. Among them, Tien Anh is a new recruit of the Vietnam national team. Unfortunately, in the first practice session with Vietnamese players like Minh Vuong or Tan Tai, Tien Anh was “stuck” in the ghost game.

Coach Kiatisak packs up and returns to Thailand to prepare for a new journey

Coach Kiatisak will temporarily return to his hometown in Thailand before returning to Vietnam to continue leading HAGL to compete in the V.League.

Coach Kiatisak is doing very well leading HAGL.

Having been away from his family for more than 7 months, this coach wants to take advantage of the time when V.League is temporarily suspended to visit his wife and children. This will be the first time since coming to Vietnam to lead HAGL in the 2021 season that Mr. Kiatisak has returned to Thailand.

Rare: Referee gives yellow card to entire crowd of Aston Villa fans

Referee Kevin Friend had a rare yellow card situation with... the entire crowd of Aston Villa fans after they sang and teased him in the recent friendly match with Bristol City.

In fact, Kevin Friend was the friendliest referee in the Premier League, handing out the fewest yellow cards last season among referees with 25 or more Premier League games to officiate.

The incident occurred at the end of a friendly match between Aston Villa and Bristol City. Initially, Aston Villa fans were chanting insults at referee Kevin Friend as Ashley Young prepared to take a free kick in Bristol City's half. But the chants became more friendly with the words "Kevin, wave to us".

However, when Aston Villa fans expected referee Friend to wave goodbye, they were given a warning. The Premier League's top referee flashed a yellow card towards the stands.

Arsenal 1-2 Chelsea: Mistakes kill the Gunners

Although it was just a friendly match, the result of the match between Arsenal and Chelsea made the home team's fans extremely uneasy. Chelsea did not play very well but still won 2-1 in the end.

Abraham scored the winning goal.

Remember, this is the time when all three new recruits Ben White, Nuno Tavares and Albert Sambi Lokonga are on the pitch. Arsenal show that they are still full of instability when the new season is only about 2 weeks away.