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Asian Cup 2027 Not Postponed: Kim Sang Sik Waits on Xuan SonAt 6:40 on a late-October morning at Thien Truong Stadium in Ninh Binh, a thi...
Asian Cup 2027 Not Postponed: Vietnam Are Betting Their Whole Campaign on One ThighOn the night of 24 October, when the news that the 2027 Asian Cup would not b...
Asian Cup 2027 Is Not Postponed: November in Ninh Binh Holds Only One Real MatchOn 11 November, Vietnam face Chinese Taipei at Thien Truong Stadium in Ninh...
Asian Cup 2027 Schedule: AFC Publishes, VFF Prepares, and Postponement Rumors LingerOn January 11, 2027, at a stadium in Saudi Arabia, Vietnam will begin their...
Behind Asian Cup 2027: Schedule, Postponement Rumors and the UAE VariableWhen the AFC published the official Asian Cup 2027 match schedule, a data...
AFC Finalizes Asian Cup 2027 Schedule: The Fixture Order Is Vietnam's Real MapThe Asian Cup 2027 match schedule has just been published by the AFC, and...
AFC Publishes Asian Cup 2027 Schedule: Vietnam Open Against UAE, Close Group Stage Against YemenAt three in the morning in Lyon, I opened the three-page PDF that AFC had jus...
Olaha Manh Duc and the Institutional Gamble of Vietnamese FootballThere was a moment in recent Vietnam national team training sessions that I...
Four Forwards on Target: Good News for Kim Sang Sik or a Tactical Smokescreen?After four rounds, four Vietnamese forwards have scored a combined six goals ...
Six Goals from Four Forwards: Kim Sang Sik Gains Options, Not a SystemA low cross came in from the left. The defence cleared it, the first shot was...
Four Forwards, Six Goals, and a Vietnam Attack Still Being AssembledRound four. A low cross from the left travelled into the five-metre zone. Luo...
Vietnam's Real Gap Is Bigger Than a Depleted Forward LineThe training session ended in the last week of November, and the national...
Tuan Hai's 86th-minute tap-in: an empty net, and three lines of notes in Thanh HoaI replayed that move four times, and every time I stopped at the second frame...
Tuan Hai Opens His V-League Account: The 86th-Minute Goal and the Door Back to Vietnam's National TeamIn the 86th minute at Thanh Hoa's home ground, Tuan Hai tapped the ball into ...
Malaysian Football Caught Forging Naturalization Documents: 7 Players Banned 12 Months, Federation Still Nominated by AFCThe call came at one in the morning, Lyon time, from an agent I have known fo...
Behind Vietnam's fourth place at ASEAN Cup 2026: When territory fails to create chancesIn the 63rd minute, from the stands, I wrote a line in my notebook: "Central...
Vietnam at ASEAN Cup 2026: A Machine That Forgot Its Own LanguageMinute 63. Vietnam have the ball in central midfield. The through-ball is...
Đình Bắc Injured at 90+5: The Fallout for Công an Hà Nội and Vietnam's National TeamĐình Bắc Injured at 90+5: The Fallout for Công an Hà Nội and Vietnam's Nation...
Vietnam vs Malaysia in the 2026 ASEAN Cup third-place match: Xuan Son's absence and the transition problemThe Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta will have no home team on October 5....
Vietnam vs Malaysia: The Third-Place Playoff and the Empty Cells in the Data TableLast Saturday evening, I sat in front of my screen in Marseille with three...
Vietnam, the V-League and Bergson's Shadow: The Real Story Behind a Third-Place MatchA press conference in Hanoi, slightly yellow fluorescent lights, a few...
Vietnam vs Malaysia in the ASEAN Cup third-place playoff: A match caught between two silent summersIn Liverpool, I still keep the habit of scanning the frequencies before every...
Malaysia coach says the Vietnam rematch will be "very different": re-reading the midfield before the 2026 ASEAN Cup third-place matchJakarta, October 5, 2026. At Gelora Bung Karno, the technical area on the...
Vietnam Before the Third-Place Match: When the Bench Becomes the Biggest UnknownAt the pre-match press conference ahead of the third-place playoff, coach Kim...
Vietnam's Empty Bench: Kim Sang Sik Enters the Third-Place Match With a Hollowed-Out SquadIn the press conference, Kim Sang Sik sat down, pulled the microphone close,...
Bui Hoang Viet Anh and the Height Equation Against MalaysiaI once believed in absolute data, until the 2026 World Cup taught me a lesson...
Vietnam Loses Four Pillars Before Malaysia: A Mirror on the Deepest CrackA Gym With No Ball, and an Empty Back Line The team gym that morning held onl...
Vietnam before Malaysia: When the Spine of Belief CracksVietnam before Malaysia: When the Spine of Belief Cracks In the gym of the...
Vietnam 4-2 Pakistan: Nguyen Dinh Bac and the second half that turned the game aroundIn the 80th minute, Nguyen Dinh Bac received the ball on the left flank, beat...
Dinh Bac and the Silent Rhythm Behind His Double AssistI sat in the seventh row of the press area. From there I could see the entire...
Dinh Bac shares emotions after scoring for Vietnam national team: one goal, two assists and a third captain's armbandIn the notebook I still carry to every commentary session, the page about...
After the Fall to Thailand: Kim Sang Sik and the Art of Keeping Vietnam's Flame AliveIn the press-conference room, Kim Sang Sik did not look down at the papers in...
Vietnam vs Pakistan: The Two-Stitch Glove and the Match with No Way BackOn October 1, in the pre-match press conference ahead of the final group...
Decoding the Group B Endgame at ASEAN Cup 2026: When One Point Against Pakistan Is No Longer InsuranceWhen the final whistle of the Vietnam versus Thailand match blew at the secon...
Kim Sang Sik Before Pakistan: The Patrik Lê Giang Elbow Equation and a Promise That Must Be KeptThere was a moment in the press conference in Jakarta that I did not write in...
Between goalkeeper crisis and echoes from Jakarta: Kim Sang Sik's experiment against PakistanOn the afternoon of October 1, 2026, at the press conference room of a hotel ...
Hollow Spearhead: Vietnam's Tactical Problem Without Both Pham Gia Hung and Xuan SonIn the 78th minute against Thailand, Vietnam had the ball on the left flank. ...
Kim Sang Sik's Goalkeeper Gamble: Vietnam Enter the Decisive Pakistan Clash With a Depleted Back LineAt the pre-match press conference ahead of the Pakistan fixture, coach Kim Sa...
The Three-Hour Bus Ride and the Unclosed Goal: Vietnam Enters a Match Named PakistanThree hours on a bus from Bandung to Jakarta is a short ride for any...
Vietnam in Jakarta: The Glove That Has Not Dried and the Match They Cannot Afford to LoseThe Three-Hour Bus and a Hand That Would Not Stop Opening and Closing On the...
Patrik's Hand and a Three-Hour Bus Ride: An Unsettled Decision Before Vietnam vs PakistanAt the first training session on Indonesian soil, there was a detail the...
Decoding Vietnam's striker crisis: Three forwards, one match and football's blind spotThree. The number is smaller than it looks. When Vietnam stepped into trainin...
Three Strikers and an Unverified Tournament: Reading Vietnam's Squad Depth Through DataI reopened Vietnam's registration list for the October 2 fixture and stopped ...
Anthony Hudson on Vietnam: System Football and the Test Awaiting ThailandAnthony Hudson on Vietnam: System Football and the Test Awaiting Thailand One...
Xuan Son's Hamstring Tear: The 4–6 Week Gap and Vietnam National Team's Risk MapMinute 60. Nguyen Xuan Son receives the ball in midfield, unmarked. He...
Xuan Son Leaves the Training Ground and a Door Opens for Williams Minh HoangLate afternoon on the training pitch, I heard the sound of studs scraping dry...
Xuan Son's Injury Opens the Door for Williams Minh Hoang — and Exposes Vietnam's Central Axis ProblemMinute 57, and the anchor pulled out of the attack In the 57th minute, Xuan S...
Xuan Son Out, the Door Opens for Williams Minh Hoang: A 19-Year-Old Gamble Before ThailandMinute 57. Xuan Son stayed down on the grass, both hands clutching the back o...
Dinh Bac's 25th-Minute Goal and the Crack That Appeared When Vietnam Led the PhilippinesIn the 25th minute, Dinh Bac finished off a move in which most of the credit...
Xuan Son Falls, a 19-Year-Old Giant Rises: Vietnam and the Relentless Thailand TestMinute 57. Nguyen Xuan Son lies down inside the box at Si Jalak Harupat...
