Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien sent a letter of congratulations to the U19 players and coaching board yesterday.



Vietnamese midfielder Bui Tien Dung (left) tries to run a ball away from Bahrain’s players during their AFC U19 Championship’s quarter-finals. 

In his letter Thien wrote that Vietnamese people were excited by the outstanding success of the U19s at the Asian Football Confederation Championship recently in Bahrain.

It was the first time a team from VN has made it to the AFC semi-finals round and booked their berth in the World Cup for U20s next year.

It was a historic victory for VN's youth football and also a proud moment for national sport in general, and football in particular.

On behalf of the ministry Thien congratulated and praised head coach Hoang Anh Tuan along with all players, assistants and officials of the squad. He hoped that they would take advantage of their discipline, spirit and effort to grab more successes in the future. 

VNS