VFF Acting President Tran Quoc Tuan meets with FIFA President, AFC President

As reported, on March 31, the 72nd FIFA Congress opened in Doha, Qatar, with the participation of 210 FIFA member associations (some national associations due to restrictions on movement by affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, so attend online). The VFF delegation attending the Congress included Acting President Tran Quoc Tuan, Vice President Cao Van Chong and General Secretary Le Hoai Anh.

Within the framework of the business trip, VFF Acting President Tran Quoc Tuan had discussions with FIFA President Gianni Infantino and AFC President Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa as well as Qatar Football Association and Japan Football Association’s Presidents, and some presidents of other national football associations in the world.

During the meetings, FIFA President Gianni Infantino and AFC President Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa both congratulated and highly appreciated the results that Vietnamese football has achieved in recent years, especially the highlight of the Vietnam Women’s National Team won the ticket to participate in the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023. Not only that, the match result of the Vietnamese team drew 1-1 with the Japanese team in Japan, in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Asian 3rd Qualifier has received great appreciation from the FIFA President, the AFC President and the leaders of the national football associations who was attending the FIFA Congress, because Vietnamese national team is the only representative of Southeast Asia to attend the third qualifying round as well as have a victory against a of the continent is China.