Việt Nam News

The Winter Olympics sparked to life in a vivid, colourful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea yesterday, and the diplomacy was just as choreographed in the stadium where leaders from nations that are sworn enemies sat close together.

World No 1 Dustin Johnson got off to a hot start, but it was Kevin Streelman and Beau Hossler who shared the first-round lead on seven-under par on Thursday at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

Philippe Coutinho came off the bench to score his first goal for Barcelona in a 2-0 win at Valencia on Thursday that saw his new club ease into another Copa del Rey final.

Wasted chances were the main reasons that Việt Nam failed to repeat their record of entering semi-finals of the Asian Football Confederation Futsal Championship in Chinese Taipei.

More than 31,000 entries are open for domestic and foreign runners to compete in the Đà Lạt Ultra Trail 2018 on March 17-18^th.

Viet Nam’s Huỳnh Minh Nghĩa brought home a bronze medal from the Asian Road and Para Cycling Championship in Myanmar yesterday.

All eyes are on the 23^rd Olympic Winter Games and 12^th Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang this February. Top athletes will carry their national flags in an opening ceremony which has come to epitomise the international community.

British football magazine FoutFourTwo has announced a new category -- Fan Favourite 2018 -- in its first Southeast Asian region’s football awards.

Saigon Heat failed to get past Chong Son Kung Fu for the second time this season after losing 79-94 in their ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) match on Wednesday in China.

Joaquin Correa and Franco Vazquez scored as Sevilla advanced to a second Copa del Rey final in three years on Wednesday following a 3-1 aggregate victory over Leganes.

Tottenham Hotspur finally ended lowly Newport County's brave FA Cup run with a 2-0 win in a fourth-round replay at Wembley on Wednesday.

Vietnamese midfielder Nguyễn Quang Hải has been nominated for the ASEAN Young Player of the Year by the prestigious sports newspaper,fourfourtwo.com.

Phạm Cao Cường beat his senior teammate Nguyễn Tiến Minh to take the 27th Iran Fajr International Challenge gold medal yesterday.

Việt Nam head coach Miguel Rodrigo said Uzbekistan is a strong team and his favourite rival in the quarter-finals of the Asian Football Confederation Futsal Championship today in Chinese Taipei.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino recognised and praised Việt Nam’s efforts to develop football in recent years during his one-day visit to the Southeast Asian country yesterday.

Swansea racked up the biggest FA Cup win in their history as Tammy Abraham and Nathan Dyer inspired an 8-1 thrashing of Notts County in Tuesday's fourth round replay.

Arjen Robben scored twice as Bayern Munich breezed into the last four of the German Cup with a 6-0 quarter-final romp at third-division Paderborn on Tuesday.

All four Vietnamese athletes named in the Association Tennis Professionals list have increased their world ranking this week.