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Seven names, 350,000 francs and an AFC awards ticket: FAM, VFF and the governance test of Southeast Asian footballOn 16 October 2026 I opened the AFC Awards nomination list, read the name of...
AFC Awards 2026: When a 350,000 CHF Sanction Sits at the Same Table as an Honorary MedalOn 19 November, at the Aksra Theatre King Power in Bangkok, the AFC will hand...
VFF shortlisted in AFC Diamond tier for a fourth straight time: four nominations and an unbroken ceilingAt every annual AFC awards ceremony, a small name card sits on each delegate'...
VFF Named in AFC Diamond Tier for a Fourth Straight Time: Reading the Clause Behind the Continental PlaqueOn the evening of October 16, when the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)...
The Offside Line That Never Existed: The Empty-Data Trap in Modern FootballThe Offside Line That Never Existed: The Empty-Data Trap in Modern Football T...
VFF Launches Football Handbook for Girls Aged 6-9, Backed by UEFA and AFC Through 2027The launch took place in a hall in Hanoi in mid-October. On the table lay a...
Vietnam U17 at the U17 World Cup: Inside Cristiano Roland's Preparation PlanOn the third training session I was allowed to attend, the Saigon sky opened...
The Minimum-Information Gate: What Vietnamese Football Journalism Can Learn From an Empty AnalysisA midweek evening, I sat in front of an analysis document with nine sections,...
V.League's Fourth Foreign Slot: Redistributing Advantage and the Price at the TopAt the final match of the 2026/26 season that I watched from the stands, a...
V.League Opens a Fourth Foreign Slot: An Attack Bought With Money, Academies Pay the PriceMinute 63 in the stands of a V.League ground, I watched a 22-year-old domesti...
Vietnamese Football and V.League 1: Nine Dimensions of Deep Analysis on Tactics, Finance, Results and the Public-Opinion CycleVIETNAMESE FOOTBALL AND V.LEAGUE 1: NINE DIMENSIONS OF DEEP ANALYSIS ON...
Vietnamese Football and the Data Question: When the Analytical Foundation Is Still EmptyFor many years, Vietnamese football has been described as one of the most...
Vietnamese Football and the Data Revolution: The Nine-Dimension Deep Analysis Framework and the No-Speculation PrincipleVietnamese football is in the middle of a quiet but profound transformation....
When the Source Goes Silent: Vietnamese Football Journalism and the Trap of an Empty ReportFour in the Morning and the Blank Space on the Screen Four in the morning in...
Bau Duc and the Money-Making Problem: Vietnamese Football Must Learn to Sustain Itself Before the 2026-2030 VFF CongressIn 2026, in Pleiku, money was poured into something no one could be sure woul...
Bau Duc and the Cash-Flow Question: Vietnamese Football at the Threshold of the 2026-2030 VFF CongressIn November 2026, in Pleiku, the first intake of players entered the HAGL...
The V.League Data Void: How Vietnamese Football Media Invents Its NumbersLast month, in my office in Lyon, I opened an analysis file on V.League 1. Th...
Inside Southeast Asia's Quietest Transfer MarketI once sat for three hours in an office in Hanoi waiting for a signature. The...
V-League and the Untaught Tackle: When On-Field Violence Is the Invoice of a Forgotten Coaching EducationOpening rounds of the V-League season. Đình Bắc — the young forward the entir...
V-League Violence: The Fault Lies Not With Players, But With Those Who Taught Them To TackleMinute 34 of a V-League match. A young player breaks forward and is pulled do...
V-League 2026: Song Lam Nghe An's Title and the Milestones of a Pivotal YearIn the summer of 2026, I sat in a small apartment in Boston, nearly half a da...
200 km by road, 12 hours of travel, one late call-up: Vietnam's recovery equationAt 13:00 on September 23, the flight carrying the Vietnam national team lande...
VFF and VPF hold urgent meeting with referees after violent incidents in V-League 2026-2027Round 2 of the 2026-2027 V-League has just ended with plenty of goals, but wh...
VAR, Empty Data and the Evidence Standard in V.LeagueThe clock on the scoreboard had already ticked into the fourth minute since t...
Vietnam U23 depart for Japan after a single training session: the Asian Games campaign begins off the pitch6 AM, September 13, 2026, the international departures area at Noi Bai Airpor...
Inside the V.League: Owner Finance, Foreign-Player Quotas and Vietnamese Football's Data GapInside the V.League: Owner Finance, Foreign-Player Quotas and Vietnamese...
Le Cong Vinh: Coaching Internship in Japan Opens Future for Vietnamese FootballI have followed Le Cong Vinh's career from the early days when he was a young...
U23 Vietnam Says Goodbye to Key Player Ahead of Asiad 2026: A Tough Puzzle for Coach Dinh Hong VinhLess than a week before entering the Asiad 2026 campaign in Japan, U23 Vietna...
Brazilian coach Cristiano Roland leads Vietnam U17 to the 2026 U17 World Cup: When belief becomes tacticsAt 56, after more than thirty years holding a microphone and forty years...
Vietnam U23 finalizes squad for ASIAD 2026: Key players absent, coach Dinh Hong Vinh hands opportunities to next generationThe Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has officially announced the list of 23...
V-League 2026-2027: VFF Officially Adopts FIFA's New Laws – Time Limits and Red Card for Mouth-CoveringI still remember the match in round 12 of last season's V-League: the home te...
U20 Vietnam: Lessons from Failure, Ambition from Home SoilThis afternoon, at the VFF youth training center, I arrived early. The...
