It can be seen that what is mentioned in the strategy is the comprehensiveness of sports development in general and the focus on certain sports. In short, it is “very ambitious”. And from that ambition, looking back at the reality of Vietnamese sports today, it must be the effort and endeavor of not only the sports industry. What is especially needed is a change in thinking.
The phrase “sports economics” has been mentioned more and more in the past year, but it seems to be “finding a way” from certain successes in some sports. Is that a “formula” that can be applied to the entire sports industry?
Sustainable and professional are also familiar phrases in social life, other professions and fields. And everyone knows that to be sustainable, there must be a foundation. For example, the foundation can come from changes in physical education and physical activities for students. That also means changes in education, because when many places and many people still put emphasis on achievements, study, study extra from morning to night, even do homework late at night... then where is the time to practice sports?
The goal of “Organizing extracurricular sports activities in a personalized manner, suitable to the interests, psychology and age of students…” is a vision that is truly expected to become a reality, as the goal of developing people comprehensively in both physical and mental aspects.
Meanwhile, there is still pessimism when it comes to the goal for Vietnamese men's football - to be in the Top 8 in Asia, or even Vietnamese sports - in the Top 50 at the Olympics. All stem from the current situation, and the question of change is also "thinking" and "sports economics".
The conference on orientation for high-performance sports development to 2030 held in December 2030 proposed a figure of 6,000 billion VND to develop high-performance sports until 2030. That figure still raises doubts about the ability to make high-performance sports make a breakthrough, but has not expanded the funding to create sustainability and professionalism for sports.
