Lê Văn Xuân isn’t your typical footballer. In his own words he describes himself as ‘a little short, a little heavy and very quiet’. The 21-year-old defender also suffers from a rapid heart rate, but despite these obstacles, he has started making a name for himself for club and country.

Despite facing Asia’s giants Japan and Korea in the group stage of the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup, Việt Nam national women team manager Mai Đức Chung is determined to lead the team to their World Cup dream for the first time in history.

With the return of home supporters, Việt Nam national team captain Quế Ngọc Hải believes there could be surprises in store for both Japan and Saudi Arabia in the next two World Cup qualifying games

The camera panned the crowd and found an ashen-faced Sir Alex Ferguson sat in the director’s box shaking his head in, what I can only assume, was a combination of incandescent rage and sheer disbelief.

Defender Lê Văn Xuân’s late goal in the 82nd minute sealed Việt Nam’s win against Chinese Taipei the opening match of Group I of the AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualifications on Wednesday.

Three out of four Việt Nam’s World Cup qualifier matches were controlled by referees from the Middle East, which has raised concerns about the fairness of those games among the public.

That Roy Hodgson is revered in Sweden rather than his home country says a lot more about England than it does the coach or the Scandinavian country.

WBO mini-flyweight champion Nguyễn Thị Thu Nhi is proud to be the first Vietnamese to win a world title, and she says she will fight anyone to keep hold of it.

Nguyễn Thị Thu Nhi has become Việt Nam's first World Boxing Organisation champion after winning a WBO belt on Saturday in Ansan, South Korea.