As many as 192 teams from 96 primary schools in HCM City are taking part in the final round of the 2017-18 School Football Festival at the Tao Đàn Stadium in District 1.

The national women’s football team of Việt Nam defeated female club Monchengladbach 11-0 in their second friendly match during their training course in Germany on Thursday.

Lại Lý Huynh won the men’s title at the National Individual Chinese Chess Tournament, which concluded in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province on Thursday.

Sloane Stephens is determined to write her name into the history books after she sealed a place in the WTA Miami Open final with a battling three-set victory over former world number one Victoria Azarenka here on Thursday.

Nigeria’s 2-0 loss to fellow World Cup qualifiers Serbia in London this week served as a ’reality check’ to inflated World Cup hopes, according to team spokesman Toyin Ibitoye.

Desriac Loic won the first stage of the HCM City Television Cycling Tournament yesterday.

Vietnamese players will take part in the Fencing Grand Prix’s sabre to be held in South Korea’s Seoul from March 30 to April 1.

The nation’s top goalkeeper, Đặng Văn Lâm, may miss the fourth round of the V.League this weekend owing to injury.

As Roma sporting director Monchi conceded that Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah had been sold on the cheap to Liverpool for 40 million euros (US$49 million) before "the Neymar effect" transformed the market.