Olympic Lyon and HCM City Football Federation (HFF) yesterday (June 20) kicked off their two-day junior player selection following their co-operation they had planned for two years.

Olympic Lyon and HFF coaches discuss at their selection in HCM City on June 20. — Photo plo.vn

More than 100 children in the U-11 and U-13 age groups gathered at the Thong Nhat Stadium divided in different teams, and played football, while coaches walked around to watch them.

After two days, the 50 best players will be picked. They will go for a test under Olympic Lyon’s Executive Director Julien Negri in mid-August. Eighteen outstanding faces will be finalised to take part in a training camp jointly carried out by HFF and Olympic Lyon.

The selection is one of activities listed in an agreement which is valid through 2020 between two sides in which Olympic Lyon will help the city in training youth footballers, improving the local football team as well as developing the women’s football and futsal movements.

Junior NBA training camp wraps up in City

The Junior NBA National Training Camp closed in HCM City on Sunday.

Best of the best: Top basketball players of the Junior NBA National Training Camp. — Photo tinthethao365.com.vn

The camp selected 10 boys and five girls out of the top 40 boys and top 24 girls for the 2016 Junior NBA Viet Nam All-Stars team. The players, between the ages of 10 and 14, come from more than 200 schools in Viet Nam.

These outstanding campers will embark on a unique overseas NBA experience together with fellow Junior NBA All-Stars from Southeast Asia later in the year. Junior NBA, the NBA’s global youth development programme that promotes basketball participation and an active lifestyle among children, has come to Viet Nam for the third consecutive year.

The NBA is a global sports and media business built around three professional sports leagues - the National Basketball Association, the Women’s National Basketball Association and the NBA Development League.

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