V.League shocks world media!

(Baonghean.vn) - The incident of a Long An player being motionless during a match allowing his opponent to score after referee Nguyen Trong Thu blew a penalty in the match of round 6 of V-League 2017 has created a stir in the world media, especially leading sports magazines such as Mirror, Eurosport and JOE.

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Prestigious magazineJOEof the UK after re-posting the main video of the infamous match between the two teams Ho Chi Minh City and Long An on the afternoon of February 19, wrote: “As you can see in the video below, simply Long An players, they don’t want to play anymore. Allowing the opposing players to freely score goals. This is a strange action on the football field but it says something about Vietnamese football!”

World football media is having a good time with the jokes of Vietnamese football. Photo taken from screen.

MagazineThe SunEngland also expressed surprise at the reaction of Long An players after referee Nguyen Trong Thu blew the penalty: "Normally, if a referee makes a mistake, the players will protest and may get a card for protesting, but then the match will continue. But not with Long An. After expressing their protest to the referee, they did not want to play anymore. The decision to blow the penalty when the score was 2-2 led to immediate protests on the field and in the end, the goalkeeper returned to the goal to turn his back on the ball."

SheetGoalalso reported on this match with an article titled: "The whole team was angry and refused to play to protest the penalty they received."

News page101 Great Goalscompiled and reported on this event with the title "Crazy incident in Vietnam when a football team stopped playing to protest a late penalty, which was also the second penalty they received." This foreign news site even called what happened at the end of the match between Ho Chi Minh City and Long An Club at Thong Nhat Stadium an "unimaginable incident."

Meanwhile, the famous newspaperEuroSportwrote: "A match in the Vietnamese national championship had strange reactions on the field. The penalty awarded to the Ho Chi Minh City team caused a fierce reaction from the Long An club, causing all the players of this team to stop playing."

Mirror reported on the controversial match at Thong Nhat Stadium in the 6th round of V.League. Photo captured from screen

Prestigious sports newspaperMirrorwrote: "The Vietnamese team protested the unclear penalty... by standing still for the rest of the match and letting the opponent score two more goals."

Most foreign sports journalists are quite surprised by what is happening in V.League. Because this is the top football tournament of a country and the actions of Long An players are really a fatal blow to the existing problems of Vietnamese football.

Trung Kien