World Cup first for jubilant Vietnam
Recent, the official website of FIFA discussed the success of Vietnamese football while have qualified for the first FIFA Women’s World Cup™ after becoming the fifth and final team to book the ticket to Australia & New Zealand 2023 through the AFC Women’s Asian Cup.
Their place was sealed with a 2-1 victory over Chinese Taipei, who will now join Thailand – the other competitors in a repechage play-off series at the Asian finals – in competing at next year’s intercontinental play-offs.
FIFA said: “Beaten 3-1 by China PR in the quarter-finals, having earlier lost out to Japan and Korea Republic in the group phase, Vietnam saved their best football at the continental showpiece for these play-off matches.
Having enjoyed a 2-0 win over Thailand – participants at the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 – on Wednesday, only to see Chinese Taipei better that scoreline two days later, the Vietnamese went into today’s decisive match knowing that anything less than victory would see them fall short.
But they rose to that challenge, with goals from Chuong Thi Kieu and Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy securing a deserved and historic win in Navi Mumbai”.
