Good news: Vietnamese football has a "prodigy", when a player in 2024 still played in the U13 tournament and in 2025 competed in the National U19 tournament. However, as people still say, the joy is short-lived, because this joy is ironic, on the negative thread still haunting Vietnamese football, it occasionally flares up again.
Although things are not to the point where the iceberg is bigger and more terrible than the surface, it cannot be considered just a grain of sand to say it has no impact.
As experts have said many times about children's football, the fault largely lies with adults. What do adults do for what purpose, what benefits, everyone knows, children cannot decide for themselves, only know how to follow. However, "children" will need to be mentioned when they make mistakes again, at the age of "being aware".
Well, the story in the U13 tournament is too far-fetched, even many people don't remember it. But also that player, at the U19 level, is on the list of people receiving disciplinary actions, which is unacceptable. Mistakes, wording in circles is "playing beyond their ability", and to put it bluntly, "selling matches", the problem no longer stops at "adult matters", because children with awareness have become "executive factors". Knowing wrong but still doing it, that is a crime.
That is also dangerous for Vietnamese football. Even if it is just a violation of a small group, its systematic nature still causes many people - including many parents - to lose faith in Vietnamese football so that they prevent their children from choosing this path. And therefore, Vietnamese football reduces a part of the opportunity to find and develop talents.
