VFF to invest more in female football: New chairman

The newly-appointed chairman of the Vietnamese Football Federation (VFF), Le Hung Dung, said in a recent interview that they would increase investment for the female team so that they can have best chance at the World Cup 2015.

Dung said VFF) would immediately take several actions to improve the quality of local football in the time to come.

Firstly, I’ll hold a meeting for the VFF’s Executive Board and conduct scrutiny over the referee team. Bold reforms would be conducted in the next one or two weeks in a bid to increase football transparency. We’ll strictly deal with any misconduct related to the arbitration work to ensure fair results and fans’ confidence. Any referees who are found with violations would be fined.

I also plan to recruit young referees. We may coordinate with the Malaysian and Singaporean Football Federations in referee recruitment.

The female football team has a great potential at the World Cup 2015. How VFF will support the team to realise their World Cup ambition?

We’ve discussed this issue in the lead up to the Tet holiday. The team’s coach Tran Van Phat is planning the training for the players in China and South Korea and VFF will provide funding.

Our biggest target is to support the players so that they can reach their best capacity in May. We’ll save their time and health with better flights in stead of their usual tiring low-cost flights. We’ll do everything we can to take them to World Cup 2015.

Even though we have good potential but Thai and Myanmarian teams are major rivals and luck and could foster our success.

What’s about training of young footballers?

We’ll cooperate with a big foreign football club in order to hire a professional coach who will be responsible for training young players. Professional and first-rate coaches will be then invited to provide training. We’ll also hire specialists from world’s famous football clubs like Ajax and Liverpool under training programmes with terms of two to four years. With such efforts we expect that our young footballers will have good chance to improve in the next five to ten years.

The U19 football team is under long-term training in the Europe. We consider their recent failures to strong foreign teams as good lessons for those young footballers. I’m really optimistic about their performance at the final round of the upcoming AFC U-19 Championship 2014 in Myanmar.

I do think that with four models alike the Hoang Anh-Gia Lai-JMG-Arsenal Football Academy’s, high-ranking players would account for from 70%-80% of footballers at V.League in the next seven to ten years.

Football coach Alfred Riedi critiqued us that we lack a good foundation for football development, so now it’s the time for us to deal with such shortcoming.

Financial issues play a vital role in Vietnamese football development. Are there any positive signals during the VFF’s seventh term?

A large financial institution will sign a contract to provide funding for the Vietnamese female football team in April. This is expected to inspire players to do their best at the final round.

It’s difficult to make public the detailed sources of funding but it’s true that funding for football during my two terms as VFF’s vice chairman has continuously increased.

The funding for football during the VFF’s third term was only over VND40 billion and the figure has increased to over VND300 billion per year. Funding is expected to increase by 15% per year in the next decade.

Thank you very much!

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