AFC President and Leaders of Federations highly appreciate the achievements of Vietnamese football in recent years

As part of a business trip to attend the 72nd FIFA Congress and the AFC Standing Meeting, taking place in Doha-Qatar, Acting President of the Vietnam Football Federation Tran Quoc Tuan met with AFC President Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa.

  30/03/2022 09:22:00

At the meeting, VFF Acting President Tran Quoc Tuan delivered a gift from the Government to the AFC President. President Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa was very touched and thanked the leadership for always paying attention and support to Vietnamese football. He also congratulated Vietnamese football and Acting President Tran Quoc Tuan on the achievements of the Women’s and Men’s Vietnamese football teams, and believed that Vietnamese Football would continue to make new strides.

About the draw 1-1 between the Vietnam team and the Japan team in the third qualifying round of the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Asia, the AFC President and the leaders of the national football federations attending the event congratulated the Vietnam team for the playing resiliently, creating a surprise in the away-ground; especially when Vietnam team is the only representative of Southeast Asia to attend the third qualifying round as well as having a victory over China.

Also attending the important meeting of FIFA and AFC in Qatar, AFC Secretary General Windsor John emphasized to VFF Acting President Tran Quoc Tuan that the draw of Vietnam Team against Japan is the biggest surprise of the third qualifying round FIFA World Cup 2022 and is the driving force for Southeast Asian countries to strive. Not only that, the leaders of the national football federations highly appreciated the progress made by Vietnamese football in recent years, notably the fact that the Vietnamese women’s team won the right to participate in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup finals.

As planned, today (March 30), Acting President Tran Quoc Tuan will attend the AFC Standing meeting. On March 31, Acting President Tran Quoc Tuan, Vice President Cao Van Chong and General Secretary Le Hoai Anh will attend the 72nd FIFA Congress 2022.