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Regardless of the pressure from 3 thousand home fans and solid, tricky play from opponents as well as bias attitude from referee, U19 Vietnam (VN) players who were at the youngest age of the tournament played with resilience before winning a silver medal after the penalty shootouts.

Players from HAGL Arsenal JMG Academy shone to help U19 Vietnam win 3 goals to 2 over U19 Thailand, a team with many players from the Arsenal Academy in Thailand.

Being scored an equalizer by SHB Da Nang right at the last seconds of the match, V.Ninh Binh won on penalty kicks to grasp the National Cup – Eximbank 2013.

Since the First Division championship in 2009 so far, Ninh Binh has had no trophy at the domestic game field. This year, this team is facing the chance to make their dream come true.

After Xi Mang Xuan Thanh Saigon officially left V-LEAGUE 2013, the organizer decided that the season only included 20 rounds in comparison with 22 rounds as before. At the end of round 19, the Xi Mang The Vissai Ninh Binh held 10th place on the ranking and would end at the bottom 3.

With 3 points in home field in Round 20 V-League, The Vissai Ninh Binh officially avoided relegation

"We had to borrow money to go to Ninh Binh from Kien Giang play, but the referee had “killed” K.Kien Giang and the match. If the referee did his good job, we could have got one point to pursue the hope to avoid relegation.

In the last three rounds, starting from round 20 Sunday 18 August, the V-League matches will be conducted at the same time 17:00 on the fields throughout the country to prevent the possibilities of cahoots among teams.

Facing a weak opponent like Dong Tam in home field, Ninh Binh has unfortunately dropped the victory as Timothy was too individual in ball procession.

In the first game that new coach Gerardo Martino sat on the bench, the Barca players showed up an exceptional strength, beating Santos with 8 goals to nil, thereby grasped the tradition Joan Gamper Trophy title.

After a classic brace in previous match, the ancient capital fans were waiting for Quyen to recur at the top level in the clash between Xuan Thanh Saigon and Ninh Binh, yet his performance was so disappointing.

Coach Wenger and his students had a training session to get familiar with the field before entering the clash with host team Vietnam tomorrow.

The “golden boy” came back with his familiar image at his top form by 2 classic goals at the quarter-final of National Cup, making V-League goalkeeper Bassey Akpan excessive at the goal.

Cong Vinh gave SLNA the lead but the away team couldn’t save the score and accept the draw in Ninh Binh field at 15 round V-League. The visitors from Nghe region entered the game better, yet the first significant opportunity belonged to Ninh Binh. After 6 minutes, Manh Dung...

The home team’s game technique to play small ball, find and technical hit big challenge with waterlogged field that made them fail to overcome Dong Nai, which was considered the weaker team.