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LONDON -- Tottenham Hotspur have named Jose Mourinho as their new manager on a contract that runs until the end of the 2022-23 season, the Premier League club said on Wednesday. The 56-year-old Portuguese returns to management for the first time since being sacked by Manchester United in December. He replaces Mauricio Pochettino, who was sacked by Spurs on Tuesday. "In Jose we have one of the most successful managers in football," Spurs Chairman Daniel Levy said in a statement on the club website here “He has a wealth of experience, can inspire teams and is a great tactician. He has won honours at every club he has coached. We believe he will bring energy and belief to the dressing room.” Pochettino took the club to their first Champions League final last season, where they lost to Liverpool, but was sacked after a poor run of form in 2019, during which the team have won six of their last 24 league games. Spurs, who currently sit 14th in the league, are the third … [Read more...] about Mourinho back in Premier League with Spurs as Pochettino replacement

Vietnamese striker Nguyen Anh Duc, who turns 34 this year, has officially retired from international football after playing his last match with the national team against archrivals Thailand in the second round of 2022 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers on Tuesday. The veteran Vietnamese forward announced his retirement in a post on his verified Facebook account on Tuesday afternoon, a few hours before the game between Vietnam and Thailand kicked off at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi. “Every journey has an end,” he wrote. “I feel honored to have played for and contributed to the Vietnam national team alongside generations of football talents.” Duc told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that he had planned his retirement for a long time, but it was not until recently that he was given a nod of approval by head coach Park Hang Seo. “Park has considered my request for a long time and he thinks that [the Vietnam-Thailand match], which is also Vietnam’s last … [Read more...] about Veteran Vietnam forward quits int’l football after World Cup qualifier

Ten high school boys in the north-central Vietnamese province of Quang Tri have been sentenced to between 30 months of probation and eight years behind bars each for gang-raping a 16-year-old girl in late March. The trial of the ten defendants, aged 16 to 18, was carried out at the People’s Court in Trieu Phong District, Quang Tri Province on Tuesday. They were all students of local high schools in Trieu Phong District. At the end of the trial, the court sentenced N.T.Q., 17, to eight years in prison, L.H.M.Q.,17, N.H.P.,18, and N.T.V.,18, to seven years each, L.V.M.D., 18, to six years, and N.Q.A., 18, to 3.5 years. The other four boys, aged 16 to 18, were given 30-36 months of probation. According to the indictment, L.H.M.Q. threw a birthday party at his house and invited the nine other boys on the evening of March 24. N.T.Q. then invited the victim, 16-year-old N.T.B.P., a local tenth-grade student, to join the party via a text message, to which she agreed. N.T.Q. told the … [Read more...] about In Vietnam, 10 high school boys get combined 49 years for gang-raping 16-yo girl

A nine-year-old boy in the north-central Vietnamese province of Thanh Hoa had one of his hands amputated after a flashlight exploded while charging in his home last week. L.V.N., born in 2010, was rushed to Thanh Hoa Province Children’s Hospital with a severely injured right hand on the morning of November 16. The little patient’s family said he had tried to unplug a flashlight from an electric socket at around 7:30 am that same day after he heard a ‘pop’ coming from the device, which was being charged. The device suddenly blew up while N. was holding it in his right hand, the family said. The explosion severely damaged all the fingers of the hand. N.’s family first rushed him to a district hospital, where the boy was given first aid before he was transferred to Thanh Hoa Province Children’s Hospital. Doctors performed emergency surgery to amputate the patient’s injured right hand at 10:20 am on the same day as the hand was too badly damaged to … [Read more...] about 9-yo Vietnamese boy loses hand in flashlight explosion

A section of the iconic Han River in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang has been contaminated by wastewater over the past few days as a nearby wastewater collection system becomes overloaded. Dark-colored water was spotted along a section of the Han River near Tran Thi Ly Bridge and Nguyen Van Troi Pedestrian Bridge on Tuesday morning, according to observations by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporters. Unpleasant smell was noticeable from the riverbank. As of Wednesday morning, the polluted water had changed to a lighter color but the stench remained. A section of the Han River near Tran Thi Ly Bridge in Da Nang, Vietnam is polluted on November 19, 2019. Photo: V.Hung / Tuoi Tre A quick report by the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment showed that coliform levels in the water collected from the Han River near Tran Thi Ly Bridge were eight times higher than acceptable standards. The agency attributed the situation to the degraded and congested state of a … [Read more...] about Wastewater pollutes Da Nang’s iconic Han River