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Ninh Bình vs Công An TP.HCM: the 0.75 goals-conceded block and the set-piece blind spotAt 18:00 the floodlights at Ninh Bình come on while the pitch still holds...
Nam Dinh 4-0 Dong Nai City: the 13-minute collapse and 450 minutes without a goalIn the 47th minute, the ball had barely been rolled back from the centre circ...
Dinh Bac breaks his drought, Nguyen Filip pays the price: Cong An Ha Noi drop two points to an old habitMinute 43. The ball squirted out of a thicket of legs inside the box. Nguyen...
VAR, an overturned penalty and Công An Hà Nội's game-management lessonLate in the match, the referee pointed to the spot after a collision between...
The VFF Chairmanship and the 600–1,000 Billion VND Target: Mapping the Money Before the VoteThree names sit on the nomination list for the presidency of the Vietnam...
V.League: A Season Full of Numbers, Empty of DataLate one night at the end of July, a file arrived from Vietnam to Shanghai...
V.League 1: The Match Report That Must Not Be Written Before the Final WhistleIn September 2026, aged 37, I sat in the stands at Groupama Stadium covering...
CA TP HCM 1-0 The Cong: Olaha Manh Duc, the 68th Minute and Four Passports on One PitchThe 68th Minute at Go Dau Minute 68, Go Dau stadium. The ball was pushed down...
Vietnamese Football and the Cycle Challenge: Decoding the Journey from Identity to SystemVietnamese Football and the Cycle Challenge: Decoding the Journey from Identi...
After the ASEAN Cup, V.League 1 Enters the Transfer Window With Unanswered QuestionsThat night, the Viet Tri Stadium was packed. It was not a Champions League...
Vietnam's Football Sediment: When the Scout Stands at the Wrong Observation PointOne April afternoon in Nha Trang, I stayed behind alone in the stands after t...
70 Years of Cong An Ha Noi: A Festival of Memory, and Two Files Nobody Has Cross-CheckedOn October 10, in Hanoi, a First Class Labor Medal will be awarded to a...
Keep or sell: the notebook nobody reads that decides the fate of a youth generationAt 5:47 a.m., on the small pitch behind the dormitory block of a youth traini...
Dong Nai vs CAHN, 18:00 on September 20: Four Days After Gamba Osaka and the Gap Down the Left ChannelIn the 69th minute, CAHN were down to ten men. By stoppage time, they had sti...
National Cup: Becamex TP.HCM stun Thanh Hóa away with a disciplined low-block counterattacking displayAt the 83rd minute at Thanh Hóa's home ground, Nguyễn Trần Việt Cường receive...
Williams Minh Hoang at 1m90: Vietnam's Bet on Rebuilding Its Attacking Spine18-9. I do not know exactly what time the ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh City...
Williams Minh Hoang earns Vietnam call-up: a five-man forward line and a naturalised slot priced by paperworkOn 18 September, at the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Justice, a 19-year-old...
The Empty Notebook in V.League: Vietnamese Football Lacks the Data to Verify ItselfMinute 12 and a line with nothing to check against In the 12th minute of a...
The Traceability Notebook: When Vietnamese Football Transfer News Loses Its SourceOn the eleventh night, I stopped at the twenty-seventh line of my notebook....
Vietnam After the 2026 ASEAN Title: The Quiet Rhythm Behind the Data TableAt 7:10 in the morning of 30 December 2026, at the training ground of Vietnam...
The 68th Minute and the Supplemental Sanction: Van Hau, VAR, and V.League 1's Disciplinary EquationMinute 68. On the VAR screen at Hang Day Stadium, the image is slowed down:...
Vietnamese Football and the Art of Storytelling: When the Pitch Becomes a PoemIn a press room in Hanoi, where cigarette smoke and coffee aroma intertwined,...
The V.League Map: Nine Data Layers That Redraw the Title RaceIn the last three rounds of V.League 1, the PPDA — passes allowed per defensi...
From Bangkok Back to the V.League 1 Training Ground: Patron Money, the Pitch, and the Untold Bridge of Vietnamese FootballOn the morning of January 6, 2026, I stood at the training ground of a V.Leag...
V.League 1: The AFC Dossier and the Silent Transfer Arms Race Nobody SeesOn the B stand of Hang Day Stadium, on an October afternoon in 2026, I wrote ...
The V.League 1 Transfer Window: How Loans With an Obligation to Buy Expose Vietnamese Football's Financial StructureAt an outlying training ground, a June wind pushed through the metal fence. A...
Under the V.League 1 Table: Fitness, Money and Comebacks With No Way BackJanuary 5, 2026, Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, the 34th minute of the secon...
