Impressive debut for rookie, defending champion returns strongly

Impressive debut

The Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics team had an impressive debut in their first participation in the 3rd Vietnam Youth Student Football Tournament - 2025 THACO Cup (TNSV THACO Cup 2025) when they defeated the Vietnam Aviation Academy team with a score of 2-0 in group 7.

Tân binh ra mắt ấn tượng, ĐKVĐ trở lại mạnh mẽ- Ảnh 1. — The new team of Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics had an impressive debut.

Coach Tran Dinh Thanh said that the football movement at Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics has flourished in the past year. Through the school's internal tournament attracting the participation of a large number of students, the coaching board has selected talented players and formed a team to participate in the TNSV THACO Cup 2025. "The investment for the team to participate in the tournament is quite expensive compared to the school's sports budget, so the leadership board also hesitated. However, in order to support and build the sports movement in the school, we were given the green light to participate in the tournament, so everyone was excited. Teachers, students and students of the school were also excited to cheer for the team in the tournament debut and were very happy and emotional when witnessing the wonderful debut with a victory", a member of the leadership board of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics team shared.

Coach Tran Dinh Thanh's students controlled the game, launched coherent attacks, created many opportunities before concretizing with 2 goals against the Vietnam Aviation Academy team. The ability of the coaching staff of the rookie team Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics was also highly appreciated when the changes of players were all effective. Ho Tan Dang Vinh and Phan Van Hung, after being put on the field, shone and scored the winning goal for the team of Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics.

With 3 points in the opening match and an impressive debut, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics team promises to cause difficulties for the next two opponents, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Sciences and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education. Yesterday, these two teams had a "fiery" encounter, contributing many quality plays. The fast playing style and the ability to take advantage of better opportunities helped the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education team defeat the Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Sciences with a score of 3-1.

Group A surprise

In the qualifying round of Group A (Northern region) which took place yesterday at the University of Water Resources, the team of Dong A University of Technology, a new recruit, unexpectedly defeated Dai Nam University with a score of 2-1. Tran Minh Quan was the one who scored the opening goal for the Dong A University of Technology team, and Ngo Anh Quan was the player who scored the winning goal, 2-1 for this team against the opponent who was considered stronger, Dai Nam University.

The defending champion poured in goals

After losing in the opening match of group 1 against the team of Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport, yesterday, January 2, the defending champion team of Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports made a strong comeback with a resounding 7-1 victory against the team of University of Finance - Marketing.

As coach Pham Thai Vinh shared, the team of Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports has no way back, forced to win as big as possible in the remaining two matches against the University of Finance - Marketing and the Saigon Polytechnic College, and at the same time wait for the University of Transport to stumble. In case they cannot win the first place in their group, the team of Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports still has a chance to enter the play-off round for the second-placed team with the best results. However, as coach Pham Thai Vinh admitted, the chance of the team of Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports is very slim. However, the players of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports still fought with all their might for the flag and honor of the defending champion.

The high spirit of determination and thirst for victory were shown by the players of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports in the match against the University of Finance and Marketing. The 7 goals of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports were scored by Tran Anh Khoa (2 goals), Nguyen Anh Tuan, Nguyen Tuan Kiet, Ngo Manh Huy Hoang, Le Van Phuoc Trung, Nguyen Thanh Phu.