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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced the format for Women’s Asian Cup 2022, with Vietnam hopeful of using the competition as a route to obtain World Cup qualification. Female football players will compete for World Cup berth during Lunar New Year (Photo: AFC) The schedule will see 12 others to compete in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup finals, set to take place between January 20 and February 6 in India. The timeframe coincides with the Lunar New Year holiday in Vietnam. The best 12 teams are Japan, Australia, China, Taiwan (China), Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Iran, Thailand, and hosts India. They will be divided into three groups of four, with the first and second- placed teams and two best third-placed teams qualifying for the quarterfinals. The event will also serve as a qualifying round for the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. As a result, the top five teams in the AFC Women’s …

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Darby had a brief stint in charge of the Vietnamese national women's team. — Photo laodong.vn Peter Cowan That Roy Hodgson is revered in Sweden rather than his home country says a lot more about England than it does the coach or the Scandinavian country. If it didn’t happen in the English top flight after 1992, it’s not worth knowing about for fans and pundits alike, whether you revolutionised the professional game in another country or not. If Roy Hodgson must suffer the indignity of being remembered for his struggles with a limited England team rather than his many successes overseas, what chance does Steve Darby have of some well-deserved recognition in Blighty? Not that the Liverpudlian is desperate for acknowledgement in his home country, at least judging by his recently released biography. The Itinerant Coach – the Footballing Life and Times of Steve Darby was written by Antony Sutton of the Jakarta Casual blog fame and tells the story of Darby’s career as a player …

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A poor couple in the central province of Quang Binh are seeking support to save their two sons with haemophilia. The couple Nguyen Anh, 51, and Nguyen Thi Luyen, 49, in Quang Loc Commune in Ba Don Town have three sons and three daughters. Their eldest son Nguyen Hai Dong died of haemophilia six years ago, meanwhile, the two other Nguyen Xuan Hai, 14, and Nguyen Minh Ha, 13, are both struggling with the disease. Luyen and her sons Previously, their son had to go to hospital for dialysis once every month, but the current frequency is every 15 days. Ha and Ha weigh only around 20 kilogrammes each. "We like to play football very much but we are not strong enough to do this. We hope that we can fully recover so that we can play with my friends,” Hai said. Since Dong’s death, Luyen has been always worried about her two remaining sons’ condition. Their disease needs long treatment, but the family faces financial difficulties. Meanwhile, the family’s income mainly …

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