Scene of the drawing and technical meeting of the 2025 International Student Youth Football Tournament - THACO Cup
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Ton Duc Thang University: Decoding the mystery of the Cambodian champion
The random draw put the home team Ton Duc Thang University in Group A with two neighboring teams from Vietnam, Life University (Cambodia) and Lao University.
Meanwhile, Group B will bring together the reigning champion Vietnam, Thanh Hoa University of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the remaining two international representatives, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the University of Malaysia.
In the opening match taking place at 4:00 p.m. on March 22, the home team Ton Duc Thang University will face Life University - currently the reigning champion of the 2024 Cambodian student championship.
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Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Thanh Nien Newspaper, journalist Hai Thanh welcomed the 6 football teams and forces participating in the tournament.
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The next match of the same day, Group B will open with a competition between two guest teams, the University of Malaysia and Nanyang Technological University (also the Singapore student football champion) at 6:00 p.m. on March 22 at Ton Duc Thang University.
The results of the draw and the match schedule (representatives of the teams took turns to draw lots at Kim Do Hotel on the morning of March 20) helped the teams and interested fans to "decode" the strength of 3 out of 4 international guest teams.
Great advantage for Lao University
From another perspective, this will give an advantage to the Lao University team, which brings together the forces of 4 major universities in Laos, and will be able to "see the legs and feet" of its opponents before entering the first match against Life University at 3:30 p.m. on March 24.
Official match ball of the tournament
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Teams find out information about the tournament
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Also on March 24, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) will play its final match in the group stage at 5:45 p.m. against Thanh Hoa University of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In the final match of the group stage on March 26, Thanh Hoa University of Culture, Sports and Tourism will face Malaysia University at 3:30 p.m. to decide the two representatives of Group B to enter the semi-finals.
In the remaining match, the home team Ton Duc Thang University will compete with the team from Lao University at 5:45 p.m. Playing the last match will also be a huge advantage for the team from the land of a million elephants in the goal of winning a ticket to the next round.
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