Vietnam women's futsal team draws with world's 8th ranked team; Ronaldo in worst squad of EURO 2024

Vietnam women's futsal team draws with world's 8th ranked team

After the opening match victory against host China at the Lanzhou International Friendly Tournament, the Vietnamese women's futsal team (ranked 13th in the world) continued to enter the match confidently and proactively in organizing attacks against their opponent Iran (ranked 8th).

When the match entered the 6th minute, coach Nguyen Dinh Hoang's students opened the score after a diagonal shot by Bui Thi Trang. However, the lack of concentration and reduced physical strength of the Vietnamese women's futsal players was an opportunity for the Iranian women's team to equalize the score 1-1 at the end of the first half.

The game returned to the starting line before the break, the Iranian players played more confidently entering the second half with many tit-for-tat situations created.

In the 36th minute, the Vietnamese women's futsal team created a remarkable situation. From a teammate's cross-field pass, captain Thanh Hang broke through and fired a diagonal shot for Van Anh to put the ball into the net, returning to lead 2-1.

Being pushed into a difficult position again, the Iranian women's team decided to use the power-play tactic to increase their attack power. In the 37th minute, this tactic worked when Rahmati fired a shot from the penalty area to equalize the score 2-2 for Iran. This was also the final result of the match.

Vietnam ranks 6th in Southeast Asia in the number of athletes participating in the Olympics.

The Vietnamese sports delegation has set the number of athletes participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics at 16. The athletes who won tickets include Nguyen Thi That (cycling), Nguyen Huy Hoang and Vo Thi My Tien (swimming), Trinh Thu Vinh and Le Thi Mong Tuyen (shooting), Trinh Van Vinh (weightlifting), Nguyen Thi Huong (canoeing), Pham Thi Hue (rowing), Nguyen Thuy Linh and Le Duc Phat (badminton), Vo Thi Kim Anh and Ha Thi Linh (boxing), Le Quoc Phong and Do Thi Anh Nguyet (archery), Hoang Thi Tinh (judo) and Vo Thi Kim Anh (boxing).

In order of the number of athletes, Vietnam is only ranked 6th in Southeast Asia after the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. This year, Thailand witnessed a fruitful qualifying journey. They won 56 tickets to the 2024 Paris Olympics, mainly in badminton when the country won 9 qualifying spots.

Indonesia is the second in the region in terms of the number of athletes participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics. With 29 athletes, Indonesia maintains its form compared to the Olympics 3 years ago in Japan (1 more person). This was a very successful Olympics for this country when they won 5 medals, including 1 Gold Medal. In the Southeast Asian region, Indonesia has the most medals.

The Philippines also saw an improvement compared to the Olympics three years ago when they brought 22 athletes, three more than the previous Games.

In the above group, only Singapore has kept the same number of athletes at the Olympics in the last 2 editions (23) while Vietnam has reduced 2 names compared to the tournament in Tokyo. In 2021, there were 18 athletes competing at the Olympics while this year it was 16.

Ronaldo in the worst squad of EURO 2024

According to Marca, Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the three worst strikers at EURO 2024. The captain of the Portuguese national team has the second most shots at EURO this year (23), only behind Kylian Mbappe (24). However, Mbappe has scored a goal while Ronaldo has not.

Ronaldo had a chance to score against Türkiye in the group stage. However, he chose to pass to Bruno Fernandes to score. In the quarter-final against France, CR7 also blew the "Selecao" chance to advance with a shot into the sky from close range.

Next to Ronaldo is Romelu Lukaku. The striker born in 1993 was too unlucky at EURO 2024, when VAR denied 3 goals. The Belgian star left EURO 2024 with only one assist against Romania.

Dusan Vlahovic also caused great disappointment when he did not make any contribution to Serbia at the tournament in Germany.

In midfield, the three names included in the worst squad are Dominik Szoboszlai (Hungary), Milinkovic-Savic (Serbia) and John McGinn (Scotland). In the 2023/24 season, these three players all played quite well at club level. However, their mark when selected for the EURO can only be summed up in the word "bland".

The back four in the worst squad included Oleksandr Zinchenko (Ukraine), Andreas Christensen (Denmark), Gianluca Mancini and Di Lorenzo (both Italy).

As a goalkeeper, Dominik Livakovic could not maintain his impressive form as he did at the 2022 World Cup. He and the Croatian team said goodbye to EURO early in the group stage.

Shocked by ticket prices to watch Messi play in the Copa America 2024 final

The 2024 Copa America championship will be held at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, which has a capacity of 65,000.

According to SeatGeeek, the cheapest ticket on the resale market is $2,127. The most expensive is the "72 Club" seat right behind the technical area of ​​the two teams, priced at $9,000.

In particular, a VIP room inside the Hard Rock stadium is listed for $71,000, equivalent to 1.7 billion VND.

The reason why the final match ticket prices are pushed up so high on the "black market" is because both Argentina and Colombia have large, passionate fan bases.

Therefore, the purchasing power to watch the final match that could be the last of Lionel Messi's career is huge.

At 37, Messi is slowly turning the corner. However, he still has a huge influence in the Albicelestes dressing room and is adored by Argentine fans.

On the other side of the front line, Colombia is also full of spirit after overcoming Uruguay in the semi-finals. Luis Diaz and his teammates are looking for the second Copa America title in history.

Barbora Krejcikova wins first Wimbledon women's singles title

On the evening of July 13, world No. 7 Jasmine Paolini met Barbora Krejcikova, world No. 32 in the women's singles final of Wimbledon 2024. Both were aiming to win the Venus Rosewater Dish for the first time in their careers. After 3 sets, Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) won 2-1 (6-2, 2-6 and 6-4).

This is the second Grand Slam title for Barbora Krejcikova, the player who previously won Roland Garros 2021.

For Barbora Krejcikova, this is her second win over Jasmine Paolini. They previously met in the qualifying round of the 2018 Australian Open, where Krejčíková won 6-2, 6-1.

By reaching the final, Paolini became the first woman to reach the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year since Serena Williams in 2016.