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FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026: Vietnam beat Pakistan 4-2, reach third-place playoffVietnam defeated Pakistan 4-2 to advance to the third-place playoff at the FI...
Vietnamese Football in a New Cycle: Stabilising V.League, Elevating the National Team and the World Cup DreamVietnamese football is entering an important new cycle. After years of notabl...
Vietnamese Football 2026: V-League Resilience, Continental Ambition and Five Unresolved BottlenecksFor more than two decades, Vietnamese football has travelled a long road from...
Minute 94 in Ninh Binh, and the league table that does not tell the whole story about Song Lam Nghe AnMinute 94 at Ninh Binh. The scoreboard still read 0-0, the stands were foldin...
V.League 2026/2026: High Pressing Has Been Decoded, and the Bill Arrives in the Second HalfMinute 63 at Hang Day Stadium, I wrote a short line in my eleventh notebook:...
V.League's Data Gap: What the Table Cannot TellOn a Saturday night at Hang Day Stadium, I sat in the seventh row from the...
Kim Sang-sik, Xuan Son and the Data Gap Vietnamese Football Has Not Dared to NameI spent forty minutes in a small cafe in Busan looking for a metric that does...
Asian Cup 2027 Schedule: The January 11 Opener Against UAE Prices Vietnam's Entire CampaignJanuary 11, 2027, 20:30. In the group-stage schedule the AFC published for...
Bau Thuy and the VFF Chairmanship: Where the Votes Sit, and Who Signs the Broadcast DealIn a meeting room in Hanoi, a few dozen hands go up, and Vietnamese football...
Vietnamese Football and the Safety Trap: How V.League Is Burying Itself in CautionMinute 84, V.League 1. The home side is drawing 0-0 against an opponent seven...
V.League and the Physicality Trap: Vietnamese Football Runs More but Reads the Game LessIn recent seasons, I have consistently recorded the distance covered by...
Three at the back in V.League: a shield for reputations, not a step forwardThree at the back in V.League: a shield for reputations, not a step forward...
Stop Praising Possession: The Real Trap in Vietnamese FootballOne weekend afternoon at Pleiku, the mountain-town side kept 68% possession,...
V-League Regular Season: Transition Speed Is Deciding the Title RaceFrom the grandstand at Thien Truong Stadium on the afternoon of April 13, I...
Vietnamese Football in Full View: Nine Analytical Dimensions from V.League 1 to the National TeamVIETNAMESE FOOTBALL IN FULL VIEW: NINE ANALYTICAL DIMENSIONS FROM V.LEAGUE 1 ...
Vietnamese Football Enters the Data Era: From Information Gaps to Analytical PowerVietnamese football has spent more than two decades building an emotional...
Behind the 2026 ASEAN Cup Title: How V.League 1 Is Burying Itself Through SafetyOn January 5, 2026, when Vietnam beat Thailand in the second leg of the ASEAN...
Vietnamese Football Between Two Currents: The World Cup Dream and the Reality of V.League's BooksOn the night of January 5, 2026, at Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, when the...
Vietnam Win the 2026 ASEAN Championship: When Squad Depth Beat InspirationOn the Rajamangala stands on the night of January 5, 2026, the drums of the...
Vietnam 4-2 Pakistan: A Win That Cannot Save a Tournament Already Slipped AwayAt the 50th minute, Hải Long put the ball into Pakistan's net, and the roar...
When Analysis Comes Up Empty: Vietnam Football's Serious Data DeficitOne February morning in Hanoi, I opened a match-analysis report from a V-Leag...
Xuan Son injured, risks missing rest of FIFA ASEAN Cup: A single-point dependency test for VietnamHook: When the clock ticked to the final minute of the opening match, an imag...
Vietnam vs Philippines: Three Newspapers, Three Numbers, and One Data GapThree Indonesian newspapers. Bola predicts 2-1. Jawa Pos predicts 2-1. Akurat...
Non-Refundable Deposits, an Anchored Price and a Self-Certified Number: Vietnamese Football Is Selling Tickets Like an EV MakerAt noon on September 25, a man in Can Tho put down 15 million dong on a vehic...
Goals After Minute 75: The Tactical Signal Shaping the V.League Title RaceMinute 87 at Thien Truong Stadium, the score 1-1. A corner from the right, th...
Thailand's Abandoned Left Channel and How Vietnam Turned It Into a TrophyOn the night of January 5, 2026, at Rajamangala, I sat in front of three...
VAR and the Nine Layers of Verification: What Really Happens Behind a V-League DecisionMinute 78, Hang Day Stadium. A collision inside the penalty area, and the...
Vietnamese Sports Journalists and the Lesson from an Empty AnalysisAt three in the morning, I opened an email. The attached file was named:...
Vietnam enters ASEAN Cup 2026 without a defensive midfielder: Kim Sang Sik's structural gambleI rewatched the tape of Vietnam against Thailand on a snowy night in Seoul,...
V.League Mid-Season Transfers: The Empty Dossier and the Price of SilenceIn Vietnamese football there is exactly one kind of document that cannot lie:...
Vietnam Football's Data Gap: From V.League to the National TeamOn the last Saturday of November I opened three windows on my screen: an empt...
Map & Pitch: The Possession Paradox of Vietnamese FootballOn the night of December 14, the final whistle blew in a packed stadium. On t...
Vietnam Await Hoang Duc's Return as Thailand Bring Back Their Stars: The Midfield Decides EverythingIn the 78th minute at Rajamangala, the ball was pushed out to the right flank...
The Physicality Bill of V.League 1: When Pressing Is Decoded and Injuries Become a Hidden CostThe second leg of the 2026 ASEAN Championship final, the evening of 5 January...
Eight Seconds and the Empty Space: Decoding the Transition Structure of Vietnamese FootballEight Seconds and the Empty Space: Decoding the Transition Structure of...
The Empty Filter in the V.League Transfer Window: Reading Signals When Data Never ReturnsThe Empty Filter in the V.League Transfer Window: Reading Signals When Data...
V.League Buys Strikers, Sells Defenders: The Number 9 Gap No Medal Can HideNguyen Xuan Son lay on a stretcher at Rajamangala, his right leg splinted, th...
20-Year Journey: From School Football to the Data Era of Vietnamese FootballWhen data enters the dressing room, emotions must go out the window. I have...
