From the idea of creating a playground for children every summer, in 1996, the Editorial Board of Nghe An Newspaper established the Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth Football Tournament. Right from the first seasons, the Tournament received enthusiastic response from localities, the attention of provincial leaders, and the coordination of many agencies, departments, and branches. Thanks to that, from a grassroots sports tournament, the Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth Football Tournament has increasingly developed and become an annual provincial tournament, taking place on the occasion of International Children's Day (June 1) and the Anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21).
Through 24 seasons, with love and heart for children, for responsibility for the province's sports movement, provincial leaders through the periods, Party committees at all levels, local authorities, units, sectors, businesses, parents, organizations and individuals dedicated to youth football training and coaching at the grassroots and all levels have always created the best conditions for the teams and the Tournament Organizing Committee to build tournaments that are increasingly large-scale and professional, with increasingly high professional quality, creating a strong spread. The development journey of the Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth Football Tournament over the past 24 seasons has not only contributed to promoting the socialization of sports in the province, but also made a remarkable contribution to the development of professional football in Nghe An and the whole country.
The Nghe An Newspaper Youth Football Tournament has become a useful and interesting playground for children during the summer. The tournament is also a place to discover and select talents for football in the province in particular and the country in general. Through 24 times of organizing the tournament, hundreds of young players participating in the Nghe An Newspaper Youth Football Tournament have been selected to football training "furnaces", becoming professional players, wearing the shirts of national teams, famous football clubs at home and abroad. Some famous stars include: Cong Vinh, Trong Hoang, Cong Phuong, Nguyen Manh, Que Ngoc Hai, Phan Van Duc, Pham Xuan Manh... and recently, young players Dinh Xuan Tien - who was the Captain of the Nam Dan Youth - Children's Team participating in the Nghe An Newspaper Cup in the 2013 and 2014 seasons, and recently won a bronze medal with the U22 Vietnam team at the 32nd SEA Games held in Cambodia.
From the success of the previous generations of players, the Organizing Committee believes that the 25th Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth Football Tournament - 2023 will continue to be a place to help the dreams of teenagers and children across Nghe An. From this tournament, many children will be selected to training centers, football clubs, become professional players, football stars, bringing glory to their homeland and the Fatherland.
This year, although the preparation process of the football teams took place in harsh hot weather conditions, sometimes the outdoor temperature reached over 44-45 degrees Celsius, it could not stop the enthusiasm of the coaches and young players of the highland football teams in the "fire pan of Indochina" such as Tuong Duong, Ky Son... or on the Lam River alluvial plains that burned the feet in Thanh Chuong, Nam Dan... practicing day and night to bring the best quality team to the tournament. The "rare and hard to find" thing that few places have is that the scale of the tournament is increasingly expanding, with the participation of districts, cities and towns in the whole province, many units always fully participate in both teams in the two age groups of youth and children.
With a heart for children, the Provincial People's Committee, the Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province, the Children's Support Fund, the Provincial Association for Promotion of Education... have participated more and more closely and given meaningful encouragement gifts to all players and special gifts to good students who play football well, poor and near-poor households, players with difficult circumstances, and companions of the children at SOS Children's Village Vinh... The Organizing Committee of the Tournament also organized additional sideline activities for the children to have meaningful activities during the tournament days such as: exchanging, taking souvenir photos with the national players, visiting the traditional room of Song Lam Nghe An Club, historical sites to learn more about the cultural traditions and history of the homeland...
Accompanying the success of the seasons, the Organizing Committee and participating members and players always remember and express gratitude for the spiritual and material contributions of businesses, organizations and individuals who have trusted and supported from the very first days in socializing the funding for organizing the tournament. More preciously, even though there are times when the activities of organizations and individuals still face many difficulties and challenges... like now, the tournament for children still receives attention, support and very responsible contributions to create the best possible conditions for the success of the season.
The Organizing Committee highly appreciates the responsible support of the main sponsor: TH Group - Bac A Commercial Joint Stock Bank; Gold sponsors: TTG Construction and Development Investment Joint Stock Company, Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development (BIDV) - Nghe An branch; Silver sponsors: Ecopark Group, Agricultural Materials Joint Stock Company, Nghe An Water Supply Joint Stock Company, South Nghe An Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; other sponsors: ToSu Vietnam Joint Stock Company, Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development - Nghe An branch, Saigon - Nghe Tinh Beer Joint Stock Company, Nghe An Agricultural and Aquatic Products Joint Stock Company, Nghe An Petroleum Company, Nghe Tinh Port, Vicem Hoang Mai Cement, Golden City, Vietcombank Nghe An, Bao Viet Life Insurance North Nghe An, Nghe An Provincial Post Office, ...
From the success of communication work in previous seasons, this 25th season, in addition to live coverage of matches on Nghe An Newspaper publications, digital platforms, social networks Facebook, TikTok, YouTube Nghe An Newspaper, the Organizing Committee also coordinated with On Sports - a digital sports - entertainment TV channel with a large number of interactions in Vietnam to live coverage of semi-finals and finals on On Sports platforms, to bring exciting and attractive matches to audiences and football fans at home and abroad.
Another new point in this 25th season is that the tournament's personnel work will be more favorable, when the personal information of the players participating in the tournament is available on the National Population Database, electronic identification code, so the Tournament Organizing Committee will also find it easier to verify the records, no longer having to depend on school records and household registration books like previous seasons. To improve the professional quality of the tournament, the Tournament Organizing Committee also changed the regulations, accordingly, each team is allowed to use a maximum of 2 more children's athletes who are being trained at the Youth Training Center of Song Lam Nghe An Sports Joint Stock Company.
With the utmost efforts and careful preparation of the co-organizing units: Nghe An Newspaper, Department of Culture and Sports, Department of Education and Training and Song Lam Nghe An Club, along with the support of units, departments and branches at all levels, the companionship of sponsors and parents, we believe that the young players participating in the Nghe An Newspaper Cup Youth Football Tournament 2023 will have a joyful and rewarding summer with many beautiful memories.
Wishing the players and teams participating in the tournament to gain more success, contribute many beautiful moves, and have exciting matches. This year's tournament will discover more talented young players for our country's football.
Wish the tournament a great success!
