The swimming team expects a Brazilian expert
Right in the first days of 2025, 41-year-old Brazilian expert Gustavo Vieira Piza was present at the Can Tho National Sports Training Center, starting to train a group of key athletes of the Vietnam swimming team. In addition to the immediate goal of preparing for the 33rd SEA Games taking place later this year in Thailand, expert Gustavo Vieira Piza also develops a plan to select and train successor talents, aiming for ASIAD and the Olympics.
This time the swimming team is gathered with 23 members, practicing at 3 National Training Centers in Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho and Da Nang. Information from the swimming department (Department of Sports and Physical Training) said that among these 23 players, there are 5 faces included in the key investment of 2025. Notably, male swimmer Nguyen Huy Hoang is still a member of the team but is not Among the 5 key athletes of 2025.
Expert Gustavo Vieira Piza (between) with the Vietnamese swimming team at Can Tho National Sports Training Center
Currently, the Vietnamese swimming team has notable faces including Nguyen Huy Hoang, Pham Thanh Bao, Tran Hung Nguyen, Nguyen Quang Thuan, Do Ngoc Vinh (men), Vo Thi My Tien, Nguyen Thuy Hien, Nguyen Ngoc Tuyet Han (men). female)…
Vietnam Athletics urgently invests in the next generation of athletes
Vietnamese athletics still maintains its leading position in the region, some events can compete at the continental level, but the performance parameters are still far behind the world championships and Olympics (Vietnamese athletics does not have an official participation rate). Olympic Paris 2024). More importantly, many pillars of the Vietnamese athletics team have retired but there is no worthy replacement.
After Nguyen Van Lai, Bui Thi Thu Thao, Nguyen Thi Huyen, the Vietnamese athletics team has just had another pillar announce their retirement from top competition, Quach Cong Lich. These are all SEA Games champions.
Faced with a big challenge, the Vietnam Athletics Federation has just built its own project for long-term development over a 10-year cycle (from 2025 – 2035 with a vision to 2045.
From the end of 2024, Vietnamese athletics has gathered with about 70 players, training at national training centers including Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Can Tho, and Bac Ninh. A number of teams and groups were sent for training in China to improve their expertise. The leader of the Vietnam Athletics Federation admitted that training in many different locations and poor physical conditions are obstacles for Vietnamese athletics at this time and are looking for solutions.
Nguyen Thi Oanh and Quach Thi Lan are still two outstanding faces of Vietnamese athletics in achieving their goals this year.
In addition to athletics and swimming, among the 17 sports that will receive key investment from Vietnamese sports from 2025 are shooting, gymnastics, weightlifting, fencing, boxing, taekwondo, cycling, badminton, archery, judo, wrestling, sailing (Olympic group), wushu, sepak takraw, karate (ASIAD group).
