Garbelotto appointed national basketball coach

Anthony Garbelotto has signed a contract to lead the national basketball team, which is undergoing intensive training for the upcoming Southeast Asian Games in June.

 

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Anthony Garbelotto

 

 

Garbelotto currently coaches the Saigon Heat, the first professional club in Viet Nam. He will be the national team's first ever foreign coach. Before coming to Viet Nam, he worked in the field in Europe and America for more than 15 years.

Last year Garbelotto, who is from the UK, led the Saigon Heat to enter the play-off round of the ASEAN Basketball League for the first time in history. Anthony is now with the Saigon Heat competing at the national championship in Lam Dong Province.

The 28th SEA Games will be organised in Singapore from June 5 to 16.

U23s to gather again in May for SEA Games strategy

The national U23 team will be summoned on May 5 to prepare for the SEA Games, according to Le Hoai Anh, general secretary of the Viet Nam Football Federation.

The coaching board will stay the same, while the team will add more players to assure they have assembled the best squad possible.

The U23s arrived in HCM City yesterday after their successful Asian qualification round. The Vietnamese won a berth to compete at the finals next year.

Players will return to their clubs to take part in Toyota V.League 1 which will resume on April 12.

Minh knocked out of Malaysia Open tournament

Viet Nam's Nguyen Tien Minh was eliminated in the first round of the Maybank Malaysia Open badminton tournament yesterday morning (April 1).

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Nguyen Tien Minh of Viet Nam was defeated in the first round of the Maybank Malaysia Open yesterday.—  File Photo

 

 

Minh, a former world No 5, let his rival Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka of Indonesia come from behind to win 18-21, 21-11, 21-14 in the one-hour men's singles match.

It was the Vietnamese player's first tournament this year since he refused to compete in domestic events.

In the women's singles, Vu Thi Trang is the only player from Viet Nam. She will play Porntip Buranaprasertsuk of Thailand later this afternoon at the US$500,000 tournament that ends on Sunday.

After the Malaysian tournament, the two Vietnamese players will fly to Singapore for the Singapore Open that starts on April 7.

VNS