The delegation was led by Chairman Pham Ngoc Chu and joined by the First Vice President of Budapest City Czigler Lázló.
Speaking at the meeting, Chairman Chu said Hungary and Viet Nam had a tradition of cooperation in the field of physical education and sport training for many years.
In order to level up the relationship and the effectiveness of this cooperation, the Hungarian Olympic Committee and the Vietnamese Enterprise Association in Hungary wished to strengthen this tie in many aspects.
Director of the Sports Authority of Viet Nam Dang Ha Viet (right) poses for a photo with Chairman of the Vietnamese Business Association in Hungary Pham Ngoc Chu (left) and First Vice President of Budapest City Czigler Lázló.
Looking forward to the 2036 Summer Olympic Games -- an event that Hungary is actively bidding to organise in Budapest -- the Hungarian Olympic Committee and the Vietnamese Business Association in Hungary wanted to support Viet Nam in training a number of sports and providing quality experts for this process. Importantly, this will be a long-term companionship that will last from now until 2036.
Director Viet highly appreciated Chu for the project that the Hungarian side had prepared and emphasized that Hungary accompanied and supported many training activities of Viet Nam. The highlight was the support for shooter Trinh Thu Vinh who performed quite well at the Paris Summer Olympic Games 2024 with a fourth finish in the women’s 10m air pistol and seventh place in the women’s 25m pistol events.
Director Viet informed that Viet Nam were working hard to prepare for the large and important sport tournaments such as the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya (Japan) and the Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games 2028 (the USA).
The 2036 Olympic Games would be a future programme that would aim at young and potential athletes. However, Viet Nam would face many challenges and obstacles to carry out this plan.
Hungary was considered an important partner of Viet Nam’s sports which received special and active support from the Hungarian Olympic Committee and the Vietnamese Enterprise Association in Hungary.
Director of the Sports Authority of Viet Nam Dang Ha Viet receives Vietnamese Enterprise Association in Hungary on October 26 in Ha Noi. Photos Van Duy
Director Viet hoped that the Association in particular and the Hungarian Olympic Committee in general would assist Viet Nam by sending high quality experts and trainers who would follow the national teams towards the Olympic Games editions in 2032 and 2036.
Immediately, to prepare for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games, Viet Nam needed Hungarian support in terms of training courses and experts.
Director Viet hoped that through the working session Hungarian delegates shared their own experiences which would help Viet Nam identify young sport talents and build up early support plans for them. It would improve Vietnamese achievements in the large sports arena.
He expected that the meeting would be the first step of greater cooperation between the two sides in the future.
On his side, Budapest Vice President Lázló said young athletes played the leading factor in a process to improve the achievements of professional sports. It was followed by high quality experts and the psychological factor.
He emphasized that Viet Nam had to choose key sports that needed support from Hungarian experts or to send athletes to practise in Hungary.
Sharing about Viet Nam’s difficulties in the process of scouting young talents, Vice President Lázló said the Hungarian government paid great attention to the development of school sport. All schools have fields and gyms.
He said school sport was a favourable premise to find talents for the development of sports. He also affirmed that mass sport is the root of high-performance sport and to develop high-performance sport it must begin from school sports.
Currently, swimming is a mandatory sport at schools in Hungary. Along with it, running and cycling are sports that are easy to practise and do not cost too much.
Practicing sports improves people's health and helps reduce the burden on the health sector.
Sports for all people programme would be a "root" for the development of high-performance sport. Along with that, it was necessary to have a system of high quality coaches and trainers, an issue of proximity. When a good athlete retired, he or she would pass on his or her experience to future generations as a coach, Lázló said.
At the meeting, the two sides agreed to have a discussion of a detailed plan related to training courses and experts to help Viet Nam actively prepare for future Olympic Games and further improve its sport achievements and position in the international arena.
Thanh Ha