The Congress took place solemnly
The Congress voted to approve the following contents: Report summarizing the work in 2024 and the direction of implementing tasks in 2025 of VFF; Inspection report of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Football Federation; Report on the assessment of professional work of national football teams in 2024 and some key goals and tasks in 2025; Report on the organization of National Professional Football Tournaments 2023/24, 2024/25 and the expected plan for 2025/26...
Two new member organizations of the VFF: Nghe An Provincial Football Federation and Saigon Titans Futsal Club
In his opening speech at the Congress, Mr. Tran Quoc Tuan - Chairman of VFF said: With the goal of building a sustainable football development, in the year of operation 2024, the Executive Committee, Standing Committee of the Executive Committee, member organizations and units under VFF have always promoted the spirit of solidarity, responsibility, overcome difficulties, led and directed the implementation of football development activities.
The congress was attended by delegates from the Department of Sports and Physical Training, former leaders of the VFF, international guests and member federations.
Highly appreciating the amount of work that the VFF has completed in 11 months of 2024, Deputy Director of the Department of Sports and Physical Le Thi Hoang Yen emphasized: Vietnamese football has made strong progress in both expertise and organization, contributing to enhancing the value of sports in social life, promoting physical and mental development for people, especially the young generation. However, to maintain and develop in the long term, Vietnamese football needs to build a solid foundation, aiming for sustainable development. The Department of Sports and Physical, together with the Vietnam Football Federation, will continue to implement important strategies in the coming period to effectively implement the sports development strategy to 2030 with a vision to 2045, which has just been issued by the government.
To create a solid foundation for the national teams, Mrs. Le Thi Hoang Yen hopes that VFF will continue to strengthen the training and development of young talents. This is a decisive factor for the future of Vietnamese Football.
The Congress received high consensus from the delegates attending
The Congress agreed to assign targets to the Vietnamese team
Information after the Congress, Mr. Tran Anh Tu - Vice President of VFF, in the coming time, Vietnamese Football will focus on a number of important activities and tasks. Notably, the Vietnamese team will gather from November 21 to November 23 to train in Korea. The coaching staff set a goal of improving the players' physical strength to prepare for the AFF. This training trip will certainly be very good for the players, along with the matches at FIFA Days, which will help the Vietnamese team gain a lot of experience and have the best preparation for the AFF Cup.
VFF agreed on the goal of the Vietnamese team reaching the final of the AFF Cup 2024 and winning a ticket to the final round of the Asian Cup 2027. This is certainly not an easy goal and task when opponents like Indonesia or Thailand are very strong, but the team and the coaching staff will make every effort to achieve the goal". Mr. Tran Anh Tu emphasized.
Mr. Nguyen Van Phu was elected to hold the position of General Secretary of VFF
In addition to focusing on discussing important plans for Vietnamese Football in the coming time, the issue of personnel at the executive level was also of special concern at the VFF Annual Congress, Term IX (term 2022-2026) in 2024.
VFF General Secretary Duong Nghiep Khoi's contract will expire on December 31, 2024. Therefore, the Congress decided to elect new personnel for this position and Mr. Nguyen Van Phu - Head of Department VFF Sports Medicine, Deputy of VFF Medical Committee; and also a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Medical Committee, has been honored to become the new General Secretary of VFF for the 9th term (2022 - 2026). Previously, Mr. Nguyen Van Phu was Deputy Director and Head of Department at Vietnam Sports Hospital, former Head of the Medical Subcommittee of National Sports Teams of the General Department of Sports and Physical (now the Department of Sports and Physical), member of Scientific Associations, professional organizations, member of the Vietnam Olympic Committee...
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