Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits top Brazilian football club

On the morning of September 24 (local time), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited Corinthians Football Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to promote football cooperation between the two countries.

The Prime Minister lifted the FIFA Club World Cup 2012 trophy of Corinthians and wore the gloves of the "goalkeeper", goalkeeper Cassio, who won the Golden Ball award in this tournament - Photo: NHAT BAC

Founded in 1910, Corinthians is one of the leading, most successful and popular football clubs in Brazil and Latin America.

The club has won numerous important titles, including several Brazilian national championships, the Brazilian Cup, a Copa Libertadores and two FIFA Club World Cups.

At the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that many Vietnamese people know Brazil for its unique Latin American culture and that today it has become one of the world's major economies with a GDP of nearly 2,000 billion USD.

In particular, Vietnamese people are very passionate about football and admire Brazilian football. The Brazilian national team, nicknamed Selecao, has won the world championship many times with its attacking philosophy, beautiful playing style, and "Samba dances on the field".

Brazilian football has always produced great players in every era, and Brazilian football legends such as Pele, Romario, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo... have long been in the hearts of Vietnamese football fans.

Founded in 1910, Corinthians is one of the leading, most successful and popular football clubs in Brazil as well as Latin America - Photo: NHAT BAC

Emphasizing that the potential for cooperation in culture and sports, especially high-performance sports, including football, between the two countries is limitless, the Prime Minister said that the Vietnamese Government always pays attention to and creates favorable conditions to promote the field of physical education and sports in general and high-performance sports in particular, including football.

Vietnamese football has also made many impressive and encouraging strides and achievements in recent times.

The Prime Minister suggested that Brazil and Corinthians Club increase cooperation activities and support Vietnam in developing football, such as coaching and training players, especially improving players' physical strength and skills.

In addition, the Prime Minister also hopes that the two sides can cooperate to improve management capacity, develop brands, mobilize and manage resources, organize competitions, as well as continue to "export" Brazilian players to compete in Vietnam and Vietnamese players to compete in Brazil...

Corinthians thanked the Prime Minister and the Vietnamese delegation for their affection and attention to the club, as well as Brazilian football, and highly agreed with the Prime Minister's suggestions.

The club said it will actively carry out cooperation activities and support Vietnam, thereby contributing to promoting good relations between the two countries and the affection and understanding of the two peoples for each other.

Corinthians is a famous football club in Brazil, located in the state of Sao Paulo. The team has a long history of 113 years, since its establishment in 1910. During that time, Corinthians has changed its home stadium many times.

The last time was in 2013, when they moved to the Arena Corinthians (later renamed Neo Química Arena), which was one of the structures built for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. It later became Corinthians' home stadium.

Not only has Corinthians existed for a long time, but they have also won many prestigious titles domestically and internationally. Among them are the Copa Libertadores championship in 2012 and the Recopa Sudamericana in 2013. Corinthians even won the Club World Cup twice in 2000 and 2012.

Throughout its history, this team has also been the destination of big stars in the world such as Socrates, Carlos Tevez, Ronaldo Nazario...

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