The US will have one eye on their looming World Cup showdown with Mexico when they face Cuba in a rare trip to Havana on Friday, only the third time in history the two nations have met on Cuban soil.

Việt Nam national football team will play fair with North Korea in the friendly match to be held at Thống Nhất Stadium in HCM City today, according to Việt Nam’s head coach Nguyễn Hữu Thắng.

The final round of the Viettel World Cup football festival kicked off in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

Vietnamese chess player Trần Minh Thắng won a bronze medal in the boys’ U16 category of the World Youth Chess Championship 2016 which wrapped up in Khanty-Mansiysk in Russia on Monday.

Việt Nam won two gold medals at the 10th WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships which concluded in Lima, Peru, on Monday.

The International Football Fedderation (FIFA) has chosen Nguyễn Minh Trí’s goal in the Sept. 11 match between Việt Nam and Guatemala at the Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016 as one of the tournament’s top 10 goals.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Monday he would like to expand the number of teams in the World Cup to 48 by adding a one-match playoff at the tournament’s start.