Vietnam team 'recruits' famous Korean player; Red alert for Hojlund, Zirkzee

Vietnam team uses Viet Tri stadium as home field at AFF Cup 2024

Recently, the Southeast Asian Football Federation (AFF) has approved the Vietnam team to change its home stadium at the AFF Cup 2024, from My Dinh Stadium to Viet Tri Stadium.

For a long time, VFF has chosen My Dinh Stadium as its home ground for international matches.Vietnam team. The upcoming AFF Cup 2024 is no exception. However, the My Dinh Stadium management unit recently announced the signing of a contract to rent the venue for the music event "Anh trai say hi", taking place on December 7, so there is not enough time to hand over the field according to AFF regulations.

According to regulations from the Southeast Asian Football Federation, My Dinh Stadium is not allowed to host events at least 21 days before the tournament takes place to ensure the quality of the grass and other related issues. Therefore, VFF had to change the location to Viet Tri Stadium and was approved by AFF.

At the AFF Cup 2024, the Vietnamese team is in Group B with Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos and Myanmar. According to the schedule, in the group stage of the AFF Cup 2024, coach Kim Sang Sik and his team will play 2 home matches against Indonesia (December 15) and Myanmar (December 21) at Viet Tri Stadium.

Red alert for Hojlund, Zirkzee

Striker duo Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee are said to have just six months left to convince manager Ruben Amorim to keep them at Manchester United.

MU had many difficulties in scoring goals in the 2024/25 season, despite investing heavily to bring in two young, talented strikers. Hojlund arrived at Old Trafford from Atalanta for £72 million in the summer of 2023. A year later, the "Red Devils" decided to add Joshua Zirkzee from Bologna for a fee of £36.5 million in the summer of 2024.

However, the striker duo has only scored a total of 3 goals in 27 appearances this season. Zirkzee had a dream debut with a goal in his first match. However, the Dutch striker has since failed to score in 15 consecutive matches. Hojlound, on the other hand, has been plagued by injuries.

So, MU's striker duo only have until the summer to prove their worth and show that they are worthy of the team's big investment. On the contrary, Viktor Gyokeres is likely to be brought to Old Trafford if Hojlund and Zirkzee continue to disappoint.

Former striker Dimitar Berbatov believes Gyokeres is the right choice to follow Amorim to Old Trafford. The £58m striker has scored 23 goals and added four assists in 17 games this season.

British media said that Hojlund is considered to have a chance to shine under the guidance of Amorim thanks to his similar playing style to Gyokeres. However, the 21-year-old striker needs to improve his finishing skills and must take advantage of opportunities better.

Things are more uncertain for Zirkzee. The Dutch striker has had a difficult time and no one even knows what his preferred position is. If United sign Gyokeres, one of Hojlund or Zirkzee will have to make way.

Winning 10 Gold Medals, Vietnamese Bodybuilding Tops the 2024 World Championship

The Vietnamese fitness team performed excellently to top the world championship medal table.

A representative of the coaching board of the Vietnam bodybuilding and fitness team shared about the 2024 World Championship held in the Maldives, saying, “Our athletes competed effectively and achieved the highest results at this year’s tournament. This is a remarkable achievement for the Vietnam bodybuilding and fitness team.”

The Vietnamese bodybuilding-fitness team won a total of 10 Gold Medals, 5 Silver Medals, and 11 Bronze Medals, thereby ranking first overall this year.

On the final official competition day of the tournament (November 10), the Vietnamese team won 2 Gold Medals in the female physique category up to 1.65m tall (Nguyen Thi Kim Dung) and the physique category over 1.65m tall of Nguyen Thi Huong Giang. In addition, we have a Silver Medal in another category of Nguyen Thi Huong Giang.

Vietnam team 'recruits' famous Korean player who has participated in the World Cup 4 times

Former South Korean goalkeeper Lee Won Jae joined coach Kim Sang Sik's Vietnam coaching team ahead of the 2024 AFF Cup.

Former South Korean goalkeeper coach Lee Woon Jae has joined the Vietnam national team as a goalkeeper coach. This is good news not only for VFF and coach Kim Sang Sik, but also for the national team's goalkeepers such as Filip Nguyen, Dang Van Lam...

Before officially signing the contract with VFF, Mr. Lee Woon Jae said: "Coach Kim Sang-sikwas the one who introduced me to VFF after knowing that VFF was looking for a full-time goalkeeper coach to coach the Vietnam national team. This is a good opportunity for me to join the Vietnam national team."

It is known that in the next few days, the former Korean player will start working. He seems very excited when he first trains the goalkeepers of the Vietnamese national team.

“The Southeast Asian Football Championship is held next month. I will try to share my secrets with the Vietnamese players,” said Lee Woon Jae.

Lee Woon Jae played for the Korean national team from 1992 to 2010, playing a total of 132 international matches and becoming the first Korean goalkeeper in history to be honored as a legend. The goalkeeper of Suwon Samsung Bluewings participated in 4 World Cups (1994, 2002, 2006 and 2010), was named in the K-League's best team 10 times, won the Asian Cup 1 once, won the K-League 4 times, won 3 Korean FA Cups, won the League Cup 4 times, won 2 Korean Super Cups...