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From Dushanbe to the Central Asian Transfer Map: Payment Infrastructure and the Limits of a PromiseThe headquarters of the Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) sits in...
AFC meets in Tokyo on possible Asian Cup 2027 postponement as decision could slip to the eve of kickoffOn 21 October, in Tokyo, the presidents and general secretaries of AFC member...
Vietnam's Short Transmission Chain: Read the V.League Structure Before You Read the National Team ResultRafaelson closed the 2026/24 V.League 1 season with 31 goals for Nam Dinh. Th...
VFF in Diamond Tier for a Fourth Straight Edition: A Mirror Held Up to Vietnamese Football GovernanceNext month in November, at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) awards...
Saudi Arabia rules out postponing the 2027 Asian Cup: Vietnam's Group E awaits a late-November decisionOn 16 October 2026, the Saudi Arabian Local Organising Committee (LOC) issued...
AFC Awards 2026: PSSI's Bronze Nod and What Bangkok Will Not Hand OutIn May 2026 I stood in row seventeen of a 45,000-seat stadium in Shenzhen and...
VFF Reaches AFC Diamond Tier for a Fourth Straight Time: The Door Remains ShutOn October 16, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) published the shortlist...
VFF shortlisted in AFC Diamond tier for a fourth straight time: what this nomination really says about Vietnamese footballOn October 16, I sat in the corner of my usual cafe on Gwangan Street in Busa...
Asian Cup 2027: Saudi Arabia Insists on Schedule as AFC Awaits End-November DecisionIn 2026, in Kazan, I sat in the stands and looked at the empty substitutes'...
Asian Cup 2027: Saudi Arabia Insists on Schedule as AFC Leaves Door Open for 2028 PostponementOn October 16, just hours after Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President...
Magic Moves and the Six-Year-Olds: When Vietnamese Women's Football Begins Again from the RootThere is a moment I never forget when I rewatch old footage of youth women's...
Football Handbook for Girls Aged 6-9: A Bright Spot at the Base of the Pyramid and a Gap in the Middle TierIn October 2026, in a hall in Hanoi, a seven-year-old girl held a thin handbo...
Japanese Coach Moriyasu Could Lead Malaysia National Team: Signals and Implications for Vietnamese FootballIn the context of Southeast Asian football entering a new competitive cycle...
V.League Referees and VAR: The Law Is Clear, the One Holding the Whistle Is the VariableV.League Referees and VAR: The Law Is Clear, the One Holding the Whistle Is t...
World Cup 2030 Qualifiers: Vietnam in Pot 2 and What the FIFA Ranking Does Not TellOn December 15, 2026, at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) headquarters ...
Vietnamese Football: A Full Landscape of V.League 1, Club Finance, Youth Development and National Team AmbitionsVIETNAMESE FOOTBALL: A FULL LANDSCAPE OF V.LEAGUE 1, CLUB FINANCE, YOUTH...
The Asian Nations League and Vietnam's Precarious Position on the Tier 1 BoundaryIn my office in Chengdu, I still keep the habit of rewinding old tapes of...
Vietnamese Football Is Missing a Ruler: The Gap Between Academies, Contracts and the PitchI sat in stand B of Thien Truong Stadium on an April night. Across ninety...
VAR in V.League: When Technology Arrives Before a Culture of MeasurementOn an evening match at a home ground, as the referee walks to the edge of the...
Vietnamese Football Enters the Data Era: The Foundation Is Still Not SolidOn October 20, 2026, when the match between Cong An Ha Noi and Hanoi FC opene...
Vietnamese Football and the Data Gap Behind Every MatchThe match ended at nine in the evening. I stayed behind on the stand as the...
The Shape of Money in the V.League, and the Football It DrawsThe sound of boots on grass in the V.League has its own timbre. It is not dry...
Tran Quoc Tuan officially takes charge of football operations at 2026 Asian GamesVFF Vice President Tran Quoc Tuan has been appointed as the head of football...
The 2029 Track: When Vietnam's U17s Reach the Station, the U20 Train Has Already LeftIn Shenzhen, I watched Vietnam U20 against Iran U20 on a broken stream, the...
Tran Quoc Tuan to Lead Asian Games Football Operations – Vietnam's Administrative Power MarkAs Vietnam prepares for the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya 2026, a strategi...
AFC meets in Tokyo on possible Asian Cup 2027 postponement as decision could slip to the eve of kickoffOn 21 October, in Tokyo, the presidents and general secretaries of AFC member...
Vietnam's Short Transmission Chain: Read the V.League Structure Before You Read the National Team ResultRafaelson closed the 2026/24 V.League 1 season with 31 goals for Nam Dinh. Th...
VFF in Diamond Tier for a Fourth Straight Edition: A Mirror Held Up to Vietnamese Football GovernanceNext month in November, at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) awards...
Saudi Arabia rules out postponing the 2027 Asian Cup: Vietnam's Group E awaits a late-November decisionOn 16 October 2026, the Saudi Arabian Local Organising Committee (LOC) issued...
AFC Awards 2026: PSSI's Bronze Nod and What Bangkok Will Not Hand OutIn May 2026 I stood in row seventeen of a 45,000-seat stadium in Shenzhen and...
VFF Reaches AFC Diamond Tier for a Fourth Straight Time: The Door Remains ShutOn October 16, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) published the shortlist...
VFF shortlisted in AFC Diamond tier for a fourth straight time: what this nomination really says about Vietnamese footballOn October 16, I sat in the corner of my usual cafe on Gwangan Street in Busa...
Asian Cup 2027: Saudi Arabia Insists on Schedule as AFC Awaits End-November DecisionIn 2026, in Kazan, I sat in the stands and looked at the empty substitutes'...
Asian Cup 2027: Saudi Arabia Insists on Schedule as AFC Leaves Door Open for 2028 PostponementOn October 16, just hours after Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President...
Magic Moves and the Six-Year-Olds: When Vietnamese Women's Football Begins Again from the RootThere is a moment I never forget when I rewatch old footage of youth women's...
Football Handbook for Girls Aged 6-9: A Bright Spot at the Base of the Pyramid and a Gap in the Middle TierIn October 2026, in a hall in Hanoi, a seven-year-old girl held a thin handbo...
Japanese Coach Moriyasu Could Lead Malaysia National Team: Signals and Implications for Vietnamese FootballIn the context of Southeast Asian football entering a new competitive cycle...
V.League Referees and VAR: The Law Is Clear, the One Holding the Whistle Is the VariableV.League Referees and VAR: The Law Is Clear, the One Holding the Whistle Is t...
World Cup 2030 Qualifiers: Vietnam in Pot 2 and What the FIFA Ranking Does Not TellOn December 15, 2026, at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) headquarters ...
Vietnamese Football: A Full Landscape of V.League 1, Club Finance, Youth Development and National Team AmbitionsVIETNAMESE FOOTBALL: A FULL LANDSCAPE OF V.LEAGUE 1, CLUB FINANCE, YOUTH...
The Asian Nations League and Vietnam's Precarious Position on the Tier 1 BoundaryIn my office in Chengdu, I still keep the habit of rewinding old tapes of...
Vietnamese Football Is Missing a Ruler: The Gap Between Academies, Contracts and the PitchI sat in stand B of Thien Truong Stadium on an April night. Across ninety...
VAR in V.League: When Technology Arrives Before a Culture of MeasurementOn an evening match at a home ground, as the referee walks to the edge of the...
Vietnamese Football Enters the Data Era: The Foundation Is Still Not SolidOn October 20, 2026, when the match between Cong An Ha Noi and Hanoi FC opene...
Vietnamese Football and the Data Gap Behind Every MatchThe match ended at nine in the evening. I stayed behind on the stand as the...
The Shape of Money in the V.League, and the Football It DrawsThe sound of boots on grass in the V.League has its own timbre. It is not dry...
Tran Quoc Tuan officially takes charge of football operations at 2026 Asian GamesVFF Vice President Tran Quoc Tuan has been appointed as the head of football...
The 2029 Track: When Vietnam's U17s Reach the Station, the U20 Train Has Already LeftIn Shenzhen, I watched Vietnam U20 against Iran U20 on a broken stream, the...
Tran Quoc Tuan to Lead Asian Games Football Operations – Vietnam's Administrative Power MarkAs Vietnam prepares for the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya 2026, a strategi...
