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Domestic FootballSLNA top V.League 2026-2027 after five rounds: the hinge is the defence, not the 4-1 win over Ha Noi FCIn the fifth minute of stoppage time at Ninh Binh, Olaha Manh Duc collected t...
Domestic Football600 to 1,000 Billion VND a Year: Vietnamese Football's Spending Problem Before the 2027 ThresholdLate November, I stood outside the fence of a First Division training ground....
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football in the Data Era: V.League 1, the National Team and the Transparency ChallengeFor more than two decades since Vietnam's national championship moved to a...
Domestic FootballNguyen Xuan Son's captain armband: When Vietnam had to choose the one who stayed, not the best oneThat night, when the referee pulled out the card and the whistle blew across...
Domestic FootballQuang Hai Absent from FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026: The Vacant Captain's Armband and the Unresolved Question Beside Hoang DucOn the night of September 21, 2026, in a hotel corridor in Jakarta, a captain...
Domestic FootballAdou Minh and Williams Minh Hoang: Mapping Vietnam's Squad Inside the Back-Three SystemOn my analysis board, one data point refuses to sit still. In the 25-man squa...
Domestic FootballAdou Minh and Williams Minh Hoang: Where Two New Caps Fit in Vietnam's Back ThreeThree times I rewound the same passage from CAHN's AFC Champions League Elite...
International FootballThe Goal of a Loser: Nguyen Xuan Son and the Silent Night at RajamangalaIn the 32nd minute at Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, on January 5, 2026, Nguye...
Domestic FootballReferee's Eye: VAR, the Handball Law and Vietnamese Football's Unfinished EquationReferee's Eye: VAR, the Handball Law and Vietnamese Football's Unfinished...
International FootballV-League Transfers: Shrinking Cash Flow and the New Rules for Club OwnersThree in the morning on June 12, 2026, my phone rang. On the other end was a...
International Football12.4 Kilometres and a 0-2 Defeat: How Heat Maps Are Teaching Vietnamese Football the Wrong LessonThat March night on the Hàng Đẫy stands, the big screen flashed a line of dat...
International FootballThe V-League Regular Season: Reading the Tactical Currents Beneath the TableI. OPENING MOMENT: THE 78TH MINUTE AT THIEN TRUONG In the 78th minute, at Thi...
Domestic FootballV.League and the Empty Spreadsheet: Vietnamese Football Is Selling Talent on FaithThe Moment Nobody Questioned August 2026. Nguyen Dinh Bac, a 20-year-old...
Domestic FootballThe Blank Report and the Gems Buried in Mud: Reading Young Vietnamese Footballers When the Data Says NothingThe A4 sheet on my desk stayed blank in the one column that mattered, and I...
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football and the Data Gap: When an Analytical Culture Has to Start from an Empty File03:47, Liverpool, and a Zero-Byte File The second monitor in the small flat w...
BilliardsVietnamese three-cushion billiards: World No.1 glory and the unrecorded numbersIn April 2026, in the final of a three-cushion World Cup stage in Europe, Tra...
Martial ArtsNo Koreans in Chuncheon: Nguyen Thien Phung's Anchor Role and Vietnam Taekwondo's Pairing EquationI sat in the seventh row of the Chuncheon arena, about twenty metres from the...
Chess15-year-old chess prodigy reaches 2700 Elo: Turkish chess sensation emerges, aiming to popularize the game like IndiaYou, let's sit together and let the story of a Turkish boy spread. That boy i...
Domestic FootballNinh Binh 4-1 Hai Phong: Lucas Vinicius hat-trick sparks controversy, HPFC Capital fanpage heavily criticizedOn the evening of September 5, Ninh Binh defeated their hosts Hai Phong 4-1 o...
EsportsNine Analytical Lenses and the Empty Cell Nobody Wants to FillBased on my experience watching matches across many VCS seasons and more than...
Domestic Football600 to 1,000 Billion VND a Year: Vietnamese Football's Spending Problem Before the 2027 ThresholdLate November, I stood outside the fence of a First Division training ground....
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football in the Data Era: V.League 1, the National Team and the Transparency ChallengeFor more than two decades since Vietnam's national championship moved to a...
Domestic FootballNguyen Xuan Son's captain armband: When Vietnam had to choose the one who stayed, not the best oneThat night, when the referee pulled out the card and the whistle blew across...
Domestic FootballQuang Hai Absent from FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026: The Vacant Captain's Armband and the Unresolved Question Beside Hoang DucOn the night of September 21, 2026, in a hotel corridor in Jakarta, a captain...
Domestic FootballAdou Minh and Williams Minh Hoang: Mapping Vietnam's Squad Inside the Back-Three SystemOn my analysis board, one data point refuses to sit still. In the 25-man squa...
Domestic FootballAdou Minh and Williams Minh Hoang: Where Two New Caps Fit in Vietnam's Back ThreeThree times I rewound the same passage from CAHN's AFC Champions League Elite...
International FootballThe Goal of a Loser: Nguyen Xuan Son and the Silent Night at RajamangalaIn the 32nd minute at Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, on January 5, 2026, Nguye...
Domestic FootballReferee's Eye: VAR, the Handball Law and Vietnamese Football's Unfinished EquationReferee's Eye: VAR, the Handball Law and Vietnamese Football's Unfinished...
International FootballV-League Transfers: Shrinking Cash Flow and the New Rules for Club OwnersThree in the morning on June 12, 2026, my phone rang. On the other end was a...
International Football12.4 Kilometres and a 0-2 Defeat: How Heat Maps Are Teaching Vietnamese Football the Wrong LessonThat March night on the Hàng Đẫy stands, the big screen flashed a line of dat...
International FootballThe V-League Regular Season: Reading the Tactical Currents Beneath the TableI. OPENING MOMENT: THE 78TH MINUTE AT THIEN TRUONG In the 78th minute, at Thi...
Domestic FootballV.League and the Empty Spreadsheet: Vietnamese Football Is Selling Talent on FaithThe Moment Nobody Questioned August 2026. Nguyen Dinh Bac, a 20-year-old...
Domestic FootballThe Blank Report and the Gems Buried in Mud: Reading Young Vietnamese Footballers When the Data Says NothingThe A4 sheet on my desk stayed blank in the one column that mattered, and I...
Domestic FootballVietnamese Football and the Data Gap: When an Analytical Culture Has to Start from an Empty File03:47, Liverpool, and a Zero-Byte File The second monitor in the small flat w...
BilliardsVietnamese three-cushion billiards: World No.1 glory and the unrecorded numbersIn April 2026, in the final of a three-cushion World Cup stage in Europe, Tra...
Martial ArtsNo Koreans in Chuncheon: Nguyen Thien Phung's Anchor Role and Vietnam Taekwondo's Pairing EquationI sat in the seventh row of the Chuncheon arena, about twenty metres from the...
Chess15-year-old chess prodigy reaches 2700 Elo: Turkish chess sensation emerges, aiming to popularize the game like IndiaYou, let's sit together and let the story of a Turkish boy spread. That boy i...
Domestic FootballNinh Binh 4-1 Hai Phong: Lucas Vinicius hat-trick sparks controversy, HPFC Capital fanpage heavily criticizedOn the evening of September 5, Ninh Binh defeated their hosts Hai Phong 4-1 o...
EsportsNine Analytical Lenses and the Empty Cell Nobody Wants to FillBased on my experience watching matches across many VCS seasons and more than...
