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The VFF Executive Committee Race: Where Vietnam’s Football Rules Are Really WrittenThe 10th VFF Congress is entering its final stretch with 29 candidates for th...
V.League and the Data Void: The Ball Rolls On, the Ledger Stays ShutThe 88th minute at Hang Day Stadium: the referee points to the penalty spot...
The Dressing Room Doesn't Lie: When Vietnamese Football Data Slips Off the PitchWhen the referee blows the final whistle in a V.League 1 match, the first thi...
Nguyen Duc Thuy's VND 600–1,000 Billion a Year: Where the Money Goes Before It Reaches a V.League PitchLate July in Incheon, after the K League match had finished, I stayed alone i...
VFF Term 10 Election: The 600-1,000 Billion VND Money Flow and the Line Items Nobody Has Cross-CheckedThree names have been put forward by the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) fo...
VFF Candidate List: The Chairman Race and the Portfolio Allocation ProblemOn October 21, the Vietnam Football Federation published its candidate list f...
The VFF 2026-2030 Chair Race: The Empty Finance Seat Is the Real SignalAmong the preliminary personnel list that clubs and provincial federations se...
Vietnam U17 lose to FC Seoul U18: the value lies in the process, not the scorelineLate October, after the final whistle, I stayed in the small stand for anothe...
V.League 1 and the Three Missing Data Layers: How to Compensate With VideoAt 2:14 a.m. in Lyon, I was coding the 14th pressing sequence of a V.League 1...
Vietnam U23 at the Gia Lai VTV Cup: a US$160,000 prize pool, and the real test sits in the fixture listOn 8 November, Vietnam U23 assemble in Gia Lai. On 10 November, they play the...
VFF Term 10 Congress: 57 Votes, a Trophy List and Three Pillars Without TargetsThe ballot at the Vietnam Football Federation congress for the 10th term is 1...
Gia Lai VTV Cup: $100,000, Three Matches in Five Days and a Two-Day Assembly — Where Does the Real Test for Vietnam U23 Lie?An Afternoon in Pleiku On the afternoon of November 6, 2026, I stood in the...
Four Teams, Five Days, Three Matches: Pleiku and the U23 Squad Audit Before 2027At minute 78 of the SEA Games 33 men's football final at Rajamangala Stadium,...
Vietnam U23 face Thailand, Qatar and Singapore in Pleiku: four teams, six days and the gaps in the announcementNovember afternoons in Pleiku cool quickly after 17:00, the pitch dries befor...
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...
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...
The Blank File in the Middle of the V.League Transfer WindowOn my desk in District 3 sits an A4 file stamped in red by the administrative...
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...
The Empty Notebook in V.League: Vietnamese Football Lacks Data, Not TalentIn July, I stood on the touchline of a training ground south of Hanoi, my...
Vietnam National Team's Personnel Crisis: An Unsolved Puzzle for Coach Kim Sang-sikThe Vietnam National Team is facing one of its most difficult periods in year...
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...
Vietnam U17 Women Qualify for the Asian Finals: Behind the 28-0 ScorelineThe day Vietnam's U17 women walked out to face Kyrgyzstan, I sat alone in a...
CAHN After the First-Class Labor Order: 70 Years of Identity and an Unanswered AFC Champions League Elite QuestionOn the morning of October 10 in Hanoi, Hanoi Police Football Club (CAHN)...
Match Density, VAR and the Blind Spots of V.League Referees: An Analysis from a Ragged SpreadsheetMATCH DENSITY, VAR AND THE BLIND SPOTS OF V.LEAGUE REFEREES Minute 89, in a...
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 Underground Pipeline Feeding Vietnamese Football: The Gap Starts at the AcademyOn an evening reviewing the footage of the most recent matchday, I did...
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...
Bau Duc and the 'Money-Making' Question: Vietnamese Football Stuck Between the World Cup Dream and a Few Patrons' WalletsIn football, real power rarely shows up on the scoreboard. It lives in the...
V.League 1 in the Transfer Window: Filtering the Noise to Hear the Real RhythmThe floodlights over the stands had been off for nearly an hour, but the...
V.League 1 Financial Structure: The Race Is Decided Before the Ball RollsOne July evening in Nha Trang, I sat alone in my small studio, rebuilding a...
Nguyen Xuan Son Out for 4-6 Weeks: Vietnam's Test of the Silence Between PassesOn May 9, 2026, I stood in the rain at Busan Asiad Stadium, surrounded by fou...
Two Hundred Kilometers to Bandung: Vietnam and the Arithmetic of What RemainsNoi Bai Airport, the afternoon of September 23. The men in red pass through t...
Dong Nai Fines Its Own Player Twice as Hard as the VFF: Huynh Tan Sinh, a FIFA Referee's Yellow Card, and the Crack of Trust in LPBank V-League Round 3In the 78th minute, near the midfield line, Huynh Tan Sinh kicked repeatedly...
Tan Sinh's two-match ban and the gap between the on-field yellow card and the verdict in the meeting roomIn the 15th minute of the match between Dong Nai and Cong an Ha Noi in round ...
An Empty File in the Middle of Transfer Season: When a V.League Analyst Must Learn to Say "Insufficient Information"At 2:47 in the morning, rain lashed the window of an eleventh-floor apartment...
V.League and the Data Void: The Ball Rolls On, the Ledger Stays ShutThe 88th minute at Hang Day Stadium: the referee points to the penalty spot...
The Dressing Room Doesn't Lie: When Vietnamese Football Data Slips Off the PitchWhen the referee blows the final whistle in a V.League 1 match, the first thi...
Nguyen Duc Thuy's VND 600–1,000 Billion a Year: Where the Money Goes Before It Reaches a V.League PitchLate July in Incheon, after the K League match had finished, I stayed alone i...
VFF Term 10 Election: The 600-1,000 Billion VND Money Flow and the Line Items Nobody Has Cross-CheckedThree names have been put forward by the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) fo...
VFF Candidate List: The Chairman Race and the Portfolio Allocation ProblemOn October 21, the Vietnam Football Federation published its candidate list f...
The VFF 2026-2030 Chair Race: The Empty Finance Seat Is the Real SignalAmong the preliminary personnel list that clubs and provincial federations se...
Vietnam U17 lose to FC Seoul U18: the value lies in the process, not the scorelineLate October, after the final whistle, I stayed in the small stand for anothe...
V.League 1 and the Three Missing Data Layers: How to Compensate With VideoAt 2:14 a.m. in Lyon, I was coding the 14th pressing sequence of a V.League 1...
Vietnam U23 at the Gia Lai VTV Cup: a US$160,000 prize pool, and the real test sits in the fixture listOn 8 November, Vietnam U23 assemble in Gia Lai. On 10 November, they play the...
VFF Term 10 Congress: 57 Votes, a Trophy List and Three Pillars Without TargetsThe ballot at the Vietnam Football Federation congress for the 10th term is 1...
Gia Lai VTV Cup: $100,000, Three Matches in Five Days and a Two-Day Assembly — Where Does the Real Test for Vietnam U23 Lie?An Afternoon in Pleiku On the afternoon of November 6, 2026, I stood in the...
Four Teams, Five Days, Three Matches: Pleiku and the U23 Squad Audit Before 2027At minute 78 of the SEA Games 33 men's football final at Rajamangala Stadium,...
Vietnam U23 face Thailand, Qatar and Singapore in Pleiku: four teams, six days and the gaps in the announcementNovember afternoons in Pleiku cool quickly after 17:00, the pitch dries befor...
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...
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...
The Blank File in the Middle of the V.League Transfer WindowOn my desk in District 3 sits an A4 file stamped in red by the administrative...
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...
The Empty Notebook in V.League: Vietnamese Football Lacks Data, Not TalentIn July, I stood on the touchline of a training ground south of Hanoi, my...
Vietnam National Team's Personnel Crisis: An Unsolved Puzzle for Coach Kim Sang-sikThe Vietnam National Team is facing one of its most difficult periods in year...
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...
Vietnam U17 Women Qualify for the Asian Finals: Behind the 28-0 ScorelineThe day Vietnam's U17 women walked out to face Kyrgyzstan, I sat alone in a...
CAHN After the First-Class Labor Order: 70 Years of Identity and an Unanswered AFC Champions League Elite QuestionOn the morning of October 10 in Hanoi, Hanoi Police Football Club (CAHN)...
Match Density, VAR and the Blind Spots of V.League Referees: An Analysis from a Ragged SpreadsheetMATCH DENSITY, VAR AND THE BLIND SPOTS OF V.LEAGUE REFEREES Minute 89, in a...
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 Underground Pipeline Feeding Vietnamese Football: The Gap Starts at the AcademyOn an evening reviewing the footage of the most recent matchday, I did...
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...
Bau Duc and the 'Money-Making' Question: Vietnamese Football Stuck Between the World Cup Dream and a Few Patrons' WalletsIn football, real power rarely shows up on the scoreboard. It lives in the...
V.League 1 in the Transfer Window: Filtering the Noise to Hear the Real RhythmThe floodlights over the stands had been off for nearly an hour, but the...
V.League 1 Financial Structure: The Race Is Decided Before the Ball RollsOne July evening in Nha Trang, I sat alone in my small studio, rebuilding a...
Nguyen Xuan Son Out for 4-6 Weeks: Vietnam's Test of the Silence Between PassesOn May 9, 2026, I stood in the rain at Busan Asiad Stadium, surrounded by fou...
Two Hundred Kilometers to Bandung: Vietnam and the Arithmetic of What RemainsNoi Bai Airport, the afternoon of September 23. The men in red pass through t...
Dong Nai Fines Its Own Player Twice as Hard as the VFF: Huynh Tan Sinh, a FIFA Referee's Yellow Card, and the Crack of Trust in LPBank V-League Round 3In the 78th minute, near the midfield line, Huynh Tan Sinh kicked repeatedly...
Tan Sinh's two-match ban and the gap between the on-field yellow card and the verdict in the meeting roomIn the 15th minute of the match between Dong Nai and Cong an Ha Noi in round ...
An Empty File in the Middle of Transfer Season: When a V.League Analyst Must Learn to Say "Insufficient Information"At 2:47 in the morning, rain lashed the window of an eleventh-floor apartment...
