Việt Nam finished the second event at the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, yesterday, with Nguyễn Đức Mạnh coming in last in the men’s cross-country skiing event.

The National Table Tennis Championships is scheduled to kick off on June 10-18, the event’s organising board announced in a briefing on February 22.

Phan Văn Giàu has been appointed coach of V.League 1 side Long An, replacing coach Ngô Quang Sang.

Two-time winners Guangzhou Evergrande ruthlessly dispatched nine-man Eastern 7-0 on Wednesday in a brutal introduction to the AFC Champions League for the Hong Kong minnows and their female coach.

V.League 1 side Long An have been punished severely following their unsporting behaviour in the match between Long An and HCM City on February 19.

Việt Nam came from behind to defeat Thailand 3-1 in the last match of the 2017 Yunnan-ASEAN International Youth Football Tournament for U19s in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China yesterday.

Nguyễn Hoàng Yến of HCM City won the title in the women’s standard category of the National Chinese Chess Championships in Vũng Tàu City on February 21.

Brazilian forward Hulk blasted Shanghai SIPG to a 1-0 victory over FC Seoul but the big-spending Chinese giants needed to survive a penalty and a red card before winning their AFC Champions League opener on Tuesday.

Website fourfourtwo.com of the UK has named Vietnamese footballers Hà Đức Chinh and Hồ Minh Dĩ in its list of 20 best footballers under the age of 20 in Southeast Asia.