VietNamNet Bridge – Professional training will create high-quality products. That theory is proven by the football team from Aspire Institute (Qatar) at the HCM City Cup.


Young players from the Aspire Institute.
The HCM City Cup 2011 unexpectedly has a new player at the last minute: a team from the Aspire Institute of Qatar. This name is not strange in Vietnam thanks to the “Football Dream” program, which selects Vietnam’s young football talents to train at this institute. A Vietnamese player, Thai Sung, has won the institute’s 3-year scholarship.

The appearance of this team was a fresh wind at the HCM City Cup, which is seen as a testing playground for the U23 Vietnam before the Southeast Asian Games 2011 (SEA Games). With 17-year-old players, the team showed off a professional and methodological style. Looking at this team, Vietnamese fans dream of importing modern training techniques for Vietnam’s football.

What is happening for football makes many people think of Vietnam’s track-and-field.

Based on the success of runners Vu Thi Huong and Truong Thanh Hang at the Asian Games 2010, Vietnam’s track-and-field targets to win a ticket to the Olympic London 2012. A special training project was implemented, with the assistance of a German expert.

The training project was praised to be very professional. An athlete was assisted by three experts, one on physical strength, one on tactics and a coach. However, this project only passed half of the road because trainees could not catch up with the training process.

After winning the Asian gold medal, Truong Thanh Hang failed in the world championship though she was trained professionally. Earlier, Vu Thi Huong suffered from wounds when participating in weekly tournaments in Germany during her training course.

Overseas training course did not help Vietnamese track-and-field athletes because of their lack of understanding of the outside world and their short time of studying. It was very difficult for them to have access to the professional environment. Recently, Vu Thi Huong was withdrawn from the mission to conquer the Olympics. Only Vu Thanh Hang is striving for this goal but she has no longer practiced with the German expert. Hang is studying with Vietnamese coach Ho Thi Tu Tam in Kunming, China.

This is a typical example of the differences between the world’s professional environment and Vietnam, and the gap between Vietnam and the world in training young athletes.

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