SHB Đà Nẵng and Starbalm Việt Nam ink on sport care deal

Chairman of SHB Đà Nẵng, Lê Văn Hiểu (fourth right) and Lý Minh Chánh, media and communication director of  Starbalm Vietnam, at the signing ceremony. SHB Đà Nẵng will receive sports care and products in the national football championship, V.League 1 in 2024-25. Photo courtesy of SHB Đà Nẵng

ĐÀ NẴNG — New premier football championship V.League 1 promoted SHB Đà Nẵng has inked an agreement with sport care Starbalm – a brand from the Netherlands – for the football season in 2024-25.

The team said Starbalm Vietnam will be an official sponsor of the team in providing warm and cold gel, massage lotion, cold spray and other sports care products across 2024-25.

Starbalm Vietnam, under Novum Pharma Group from the Netherlands, will also help find foreign experts in supporting SHB players to recuperate and prevent injuries during competition and training.

The team’s head coach Trương Việt Hoàng said the co-operation and strategic partnership deal with  Starbalm Vietnam would help footballers, especially young players, reduce the dangers of being injured in training and play.

Lý Minh Chánh, media and communication director of  Starbalm Vietnam hoped that local players would be playing at their best with support and positive use of European standard sport care products, as well as getting updated sports medicine science.

The local team have recruited two Brazilian – Yuri Souza Almeida and Marlon Rangel De Almeida – for the team line-up and are seeking another contact with a third foreign player.

Last month, SHB Đà Nẵng also inked an agreement with the head coach Trương Việt Hoàng for another period after a successfully tournament with the team in 2023-24.

The team will warm up the V.League 1 by hosting a friendly tournament in Đà Nẵng before the national football championship starts next month.

SHB Đà Nẵng will meet Sông Lam Nghệ An away on September 15 and then host Hồng Lĩnh Hà Tĩnh one week later at Hòa Xuân Stadium.

The 20,000-seat Hòa Xuân Stadium has been renovated with FIFA-accredited turf and facilities at a total cost of VNĐ11 billion ($440,000).

SHB Đà Nẵng plans to seek cooperations with football academies from Spain, Portugal and Brazil in building an international standard level football academy and to become a key centre football in Việt Nam.

The team won the V.League championship in 1992-2009-2012 and two National Cup titles in 1993-2009, but it was shocked with relegation in 2022 before bouncing straight back into the top flight one year later.