Viet Nam in INTERNATIONAL U21 FOOTBALL CUP

Vietnam leads tourney after 3-0 win over Singapore

By defeating Singapore 3-0 in the latest game Friday, host Vietnam secures its leading place after two rounds of the international U-21 football cup in Nha Trang city.

Thanks to this win, Vietnam could claim the title of the International U-21 Football Thanh Nien Cup at Sunday’s last round if it holds Thailand to a draw.
All the three goals were scored in the second half, with Trong Hoang knocking in the opener in the 51st minute and Dinh Hiep driving home two others at 84th and 90th minutes.
With six points after two matches, the host team, which had lashed Myanmar 2-0 in the opener, climbed to top place, thanks to its greater goal spreads than Thailand, which edged Myanmar 1-0 yesterday and Singapore 4-3 three days before.
Meanwhile, the two losers Singapore and Myanmar will fight each other Sunday for the third place title.
Vietnamese striker Dinh Hiep – winner of Best Player title in Vietnam’s U-21 Football Championship last week – is now holding the tournament’s best scorer title with four goals.
The game
Heavy rain in the first half caused the grass to be slippery at Nha Trang Stadium, a mitigating factor for both teams.
The host, in white jerseys, proved a little stronger and made more attacks due to Vietnam’s increasing midfield confidence.
Vietnam brought many surprises to the visiting team with long passes on home side followed by multiple short passes when approaching the Singapore goal.
It proved to be sharp on wing attacks, especially on the right side.
Even though no clear goal opportunity was presented during the first half, both sides played spirited football with the ball shuttling between the two ends of the field.
After a goalless draw in the first 45 minutes, Vietnam pulled ahead just six minutes into the second half thanks to Trong Hoang.
He brought Vietnam to a 1-0 lead with a close-range header after a sharp counterattack.
The goal began with a long pass launched from the left wing by Dinh Hiep.
He curled the ball deep into Singaporean box where the striker Trong Hoang chose right position and headed home a blast that left the rival goalkeeper slack-jawed, watching the ball fly into the back of his net.
After the goal, Singapore pushed its formation up in an effort to seek an equalizer but remained unchanged in their tactic of using long passes in the two wings.
In the 84th minute, Singaporean defender Zilong committed a foul in his box while trying to stop a Vietnamese offensive, resulting with a penalty shot for Vietnam.
Dinh Hiep did not miss the chance to further the lead to 2-0, making his third goal in the tournament so far.
Minutes later Hiep fixed the match at 3-0 with his last-gasp goal, a skillful close-range shot driving the ball beyond the reach of the Singaporean goalie and nearly touching the goal frame’s right-hand post.

-THANHNIENNEWS-

Event: "Ramos confirmed as Tottenham boss"

LONDON, England -- Juande Ramos was confirmed as head coach of Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday night in a deal lasting until the end of the 2010-11 season.

The Spaniard, 53, succeeds Martin Jol who was dismissed on Thursday night after Tottenham's poor start to the Premier League season.
Ramos, who quit Primera Liga Sevilla to take up the challenge at White Hart Lane, will take charge for the first time against Blackpool in the English League Cup on Wednesday night.
Development coach Clive Allen and youth team boss Alex Inglethorpe have prepared the side for Sunday's Premier League clash against Blackburn.
Ramos had two highly successful two years at Sevilla, where he won back-to-back UEFA Cups, a European Super Cup, a Copa del Rey and a Spanish Super Cup.
He also took the Andalucian side into the Champions League for the first time in its history.
Spurs sporting director Damien Comolli said: "Juande's arrival is great news for Tottenham Hotspur.

"He brings with him a wealth of experience, a proven track record and a winning pedigree. Now is the time for us to regroup and look to deliver the results and performances that everyone associated with the club wants to see."
Ramos, who stepped down as Sevilla coach on Friday night, earlier said that, for his family and his profession, it was impossible to to reject a move to London.
"My heart will remain in Nervion (where Sevilla's ground is located) but for my family and my profession it is impossible not to leave for London," Ramos said.
"After the excellent period that Sevilla has enjoyed fate has dictated that my path now takes me on the most ambitious challenge I have ever faced."
Ramos has lined up former Tottenham player Gus Poyet as his number two, not least to help the Spanish speaker with the language barrier.
"We have requested permission from Leeds United to speak to Gus Poyet in order to invite him to join the Club to work with Ramos alongside Alvarez," said a statement on the Tottenham Web

-CNN News-

Chelsea 6 - 0 Man City

Didier Drogba scored twice as Chelsea thrashed Manchester City to claim their third successive victory in the league.

The hosts dominated throughout and were 2-0 up at the break as Michael Essien and Drogba got on the end of passes from the outstanding Frank Lampard.
Drogba made it 3-0 when Lampard's shot was saved, before Joe Cole, Salomon Kalou and Andriy Shevchenko netted.
Stephen Ireland and Martin Petrov came close for City in the first half but they were strangely subdued otherwise.

For Chelsea, however, it was a fifth straight win in all competitions, confirmation that the trauma of former boss Jose Mourinho's departure was well behind them.
They were simply too quick and too clever for a lethargic City side who gave them too much time on the ball and looked a shadow of the team which had also earned four victories in a row.

Chelsea did have an early scare when Ireland almost got on the end of Elano's delightful chip, which Petr Cech had to push past his left post.
Later in the half Petrov forced the Blues keeper to palm away a long-range free-kick, and Ireland should have done better when given time to pick his shot.
Other than that it was pretty much one-way traffic.
Essien gave the home side a deserved lead when Lampard slipped him in and it was no surprise when the England midfielder produced another quite sublime pass with the outside of his boot to send Drogba racing past Micah Richards for his third goal in as many games.

Chelsea were rampant and should have had a penalty moments later when Dietmar Hamann hacked down Drogba, while Joe Hart saved well from Kalou, who then appeared to be tripped by Richard Dunne in the box.
It proved academic, however, with the game over as a contest thanks to two further Chelsea strikes within 15 minutes of the restart.
Drogba hammered in his second after Lampard's shot had been brilliantly kept out by Hart and he squandered a fine opportunity to complete his hat-trick when Lampard unleashed another drive which Hart palmed away.
The powerful striker made amends with a cushioned header that sent Cole surging clear to finish with aplomb and pile on the misery for City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson.
With the visitors now concentrating on damage limitation, Chelsea could afford to bring on the out-of-sorts Shevchenko.
Chances continued to come their way and Essien carved open the shell-shocked City defence twice more to serve up opportunities which Kalou and Shevchenko gleefully accepted.

Chelsea: Cech, Belletti, Carvalho, Alex, Ferreira, Joe Cole (Shevchenko 67), Essien, Lampard, Obi, Kalou, Drogba (Pizarro 80).Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Makelele, Ben-Haim.
Booked: Essien, Lampard.
Goals: Essien 16, Drogba 31, 56, Joe Cole 60, Kalou 75, Shevchenko 90.

Man City: Hart, Corluka, Dunne, Richards, Garrido, Ireland (Vassell 63), Hamann (Ball 66), Johnson, Petrov, Elano (Bianchi 73), Samaras.Subs Not Used: Isaksson, Onuoha.
Booked: Richards, Johnson.

Att: 41,832
Ref: Mike Riley (Yorkshire).

Source: BBC Sport

Football Match and Event in Weekend

Man Utd 4-1 Middlesbrough






Wayne Rooney scored one goal and superbly set up another as Manchester United overwhelmed Middlesbrough to move to the top of the Premier League.
United went ahead on three minutes when Nani drove in a cracking shot from 30 yards but Jeremie Aliadiere soon equalised with a precise header.
Nani robbed Stuart Downing and played in Rooney, to smash United's second.
After the break Carlos Tevez slotted in after a sublime Rooney back-heel and he added a fourth with a deflected shot.





United scored four goals in a fourth successive game - the first time in 100 years they have done so.
They knew a win would see them overtake leaders Arsenal - at least until Sunday when the Londoners play Liverpool.
And the hosts, who had Owen Hargreaves in their starting line-up for only the fourth time, wasted no time in setting about their task.
Nani decided to take the direct approach after picking the ball up deep in Boro's half. He skipped two challenges as he cut inside and then launched a dipping shot from 30 yards which beat Mark Schwarzer for height and pace.
It was a dream start for United but a nightmare for Boro, who went into the game desperately short of confidence after failing to win in their previous six matches.
And the visitors still appeared shell-shocked when Tevez broke through the middle but the Argentine did not quite get his attempted lob right and Schwarzer made a comfortable catch.


The script appeared set - a rampant United, with Nani and Ronaldo rampaging down the flanks and Rooney menacing through the middle about to rip through woeful opposition.
But Tuncay clearly felt a re-write was in order and promptly delivered the perfect cross - after turning stand-in left-back John O'Shea inside-out - for Aliadiere to head into the bottom left corner.
It was Aliadiere's first goal for Boro and it served to galvanise them. For the next 10 minutes, Boro held their own as United's early fluency deserted them.
The visitors even missed a great chance to take the lead as frequent threat Tuncay crossed in for Downing to head just wide of the right hand post.
Still, you felt once United smoothed out their now-stuttering approach play, Boro could find themselves in trouble once more.
And so it proved, as Ronaldo went close with a low shot from the left side of the box as United slipped through the gears.
Then Downing tried to trick his way past Nani on the edge of his area but had the ball nicked from his toes and played into the path of Rooney who smashed the ball home.
For the rest of the half, it seemed it was a matter of time before United scored again, particularly through Ronaldo.
But the Portuguese winger could not convert Nani's cross and later side-footed straight at Schwarzer after a slick passing move.
Immediately after the break, Rooney fizzed a drive just too high and wide and once more it seemed United were about to turn the screw.
Middlesbrough might have prevented it had Edwin van der Sar not been equal to Lee Cattermole's rising shot.
But after Rooney produced an exquisite backheel for Tevez to slot the ball into the bottom corner on 55 minutes, the contest was over.
Ronaldo started to stretch his legs again, twisting and turning the Boro defence but not finding a finish to match.
United took off Hargreaves for Darren Fletcher on 66 minutes, and later took the chance to give Rio Ferdinand an extended rest ahead of next Sunday's visit to Arsenal.
It barely affected the pattern of the game, although Boro almost cut United's lead when Downing went close with a curling free-kick.
But instead, Tevez rounded things off for United with 15 minutes to go when his shot looped off Andrew Taylor and beat a disconsolate Schwarzer.
It was the fourth match in succession they had scored four goals - equalling a record which stretched back to 1907.





Man Utd: Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand (Pique 73), Vidic, O'Shea, Ronaldo, Hargreaves (Fletcher 66), Anderson (Giggs 78), Nani, Rooney, Tevez.Subs Not Used: Kuszczak, Simpson.
Goals: Nani 3, Rooney 33, Tevez 55, 85.
Middlesbrough: Schwarzer, Young, Woodgate, Wheater, Taylor, O'Neil, Cattermole (Boateng 90), Rochemback, Downing, Aliadiere (Hutchinson 56), Sanli (Lee 80).Subs Not Used: Turnbull, Hines.
Booked: Cattermole, Rochemback.
Goals: Aliadiere 6.
Att: 75,720
Ref: Alan Wiley (Staffordshire).

Result matchs:

Birmingham v Wigan 3-2(Kapo 26' pen, Ridgewell 67', Kapo 81' - Bent 23', 59')

Chelsea v Man City 6-0(Essien 16', Drogba 31', 56', Joe Cole 60', Kalou 75', Sheva 90')

Portsmouth v West Ham 0-0

Reading v Newcastle 2-1(Kitson 53', Long 84' - Duberry 76' đá phản)

Sunderland v Fulham 1-1(Jones 86' - Davies 32')

Source: BBC Sport

News about Ruby Union

Robinson admits tear-jerking exit

England full-back Jason Robinson admitted he felt like crying as he ended his rugby career at the Stade de France on Saturday night.
The 33-year-old injured his shoulder on 46 minutes and watched England lose 15-6 to South Africa from the bench.
"I had not foreseen my career ending in such desolation," he said in his Mail on Sunday column.
"I'm not a man given to self-pity, but I felt like crying as I walked off. It was the loneliest walk I can remember."
Robinson was a rugby league icon with Wigan and Great Britain before switching codes to join Sale Sharks in 2000.
He sealed his transition with a stunning try in the first five minutes of the first Lions Test against the Wallabies in 2001 and went on to play 51 times for England, scoring 30 tries including one in the 2003 World Cup final.
"My initial goal was to get in the England team and hopefully do well," said Robinson, who will play one last match for the Barbarians against South Africa on 1 December.

"I hoped to play in the World Cup, but I never imagined playing in two World Cup finals.
"I was lucky to win one of them. It's been an amazing seven years, an amazing 16 years. I achieved far more than I imagined I would."
But Robinson said not even the standing ovation he received in Paris could ease the pain of losing to South Africa.
"Nothing could wipe out that disappointment," he said. "After the euphoria of four years ago, this was a hard defeat to take. Ultimately we know we came up one match short.

"We came to France rubbished by everyone and his dog and were hammered 36-0 by South Africa in a pool game.
"It's one thing to be beaten, it's humiliating to be 'nilled'.
"The squad is overloaded with experience, the commodity you can't buy. Everywhere around the team room you could see men you were proud to go into battle with."
Robinson initially retired from international rugby in 2005, before being persuaded back by new England coach Brian Ashton in January.
But he insists there will be no going back on his decision this time.

"The guys have been giving me stick about retiring but I'll have the last laugh when the temperature has fallen below freezing and the grounds are like concrete," he said.
"I'll text them to tell them I'm sat in my slippers in front of a big fire, dipping a biscuit in my tea.
"I would have said I was walking away from the game without any regrets - until last night."
Robinson's England team-mate Mike Catt admits he is undecided on his international future.
The 36-year-old, who was also a member of the 2003 World Cup-winning squad, was instrumental in England's resurgence in France.
"I will go away and talk to my family about it," Catt said in the Sunday Telegraph.
"I really enjoyed it out there last night and it's not something I'm going to throw away without a good deal of thought."
Several others in England's team - mocked as "Dad's Army" before the tournament - may also have played their last international, including Lawrence Dallaglio, 35, Mark Regan, 35 and Simon Shaw, 34.

-News BBC-

Brazilian Grand Prix 2007. Motosport just named: "Kimi Raikkonen"

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen won his first Formula One drivers' championship as Lewis Hamilton's bid came to a dramatic end in the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Hamilton could finish only seventh, ending his attempt to make history by winning the title in his maiden season.
Problems with his McLaren put Hamilton to the back of the field early on.
His team-mate Fernando Alonso's hopes were dashed as he finished third behind Raikkonen and the Finn's Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa.
There was a late twist when it emerged race officials were investigating the fuel used by Williams and BMW Sauber, whose cars filled fourth, fifth and sixth places.
But the stewards decided to impose no penalty.

Had they been disqualified, Hamilton would have moved up to fourth, giving him enough points to win the world title.
Finn Raikkonen, who has won two more races than anyone else this season, won the championship with 110 points, with Alonso and Hamilton tied on 109 points.
Hamilton ended the season in second place on countback, with one more second-place race finish than Alonso.
In the race, things started to go wrong for Hamilton from the start. As Massa eased into the lead from pole position, the Englishman was slow away from his second place on the grid, and was passed by Raikkonen before the first corner.
Then, as they entered the first turn, Alonso drew alongside Hamilton on the outside, claiming the inside line and third place as they went into the second part of the chicane.
Hamilton then unwisely and unnecessarily tried to re-pass his team-mate on the outside into the Subida da Lago corner at the end of the back straight.
He got onto the slippery outside of the track, and slid off into the run-off area, rejoining in eighth place.

Raikkonen sensed Hamilton's early mistake might provide him with an opening to snatch victory.
"I got a good start and was side by side with Felipe," said Raikkonen. "But the main thing was not to race with him, but get past Hamilton.
"I then saw Hamilton go off and I knew maybe we had a chance."
In itself, that error was not enough to end Hamilton's hopes of becoming champion, but worse was soon to come.
Hamilton quickly set about regaining places, but ran into more problems on lap eight, when he slowed almost to a halt as his car slipped out of gear.
The gearbox electronics corrected themselves, enabling Hamilton to get back on his way, but by then had lost more than 40 seconds, and was at the back of the field.

The 22-year-old spent the rest of the afternoon fighting through the field, desperately trying to gain enough places to stop one of his rivals beating him to the world championship.
In an attempt to ease his task, McLaren chose a radical three-stop strategy, the thinking presumably being that with a lighter car he would find it easier to overtake his rivals.
The teams have to use both of two types of tyre during the race.
And McLaren chose to get the slower, softer tyre out of the way early with a short second stint.
That way, he would be on the faster tyre at the end of the race when nearly all the other drivers were on the slower one.
But the strategy did not pay off.
Hamilton did get up into the points during his third stint but, once Raikkonen assumed the lead after passing Massa during the second pit-stop period, the Englishman needed to finish fifth to stay ahead of the Finn.
And although he drove flat out to the end of the race he simply ran out of time.
Alonso's hold on the title he has held for two years ended in a damp squib.
The Spaniard was never in contention for victory in a race that was dominated by the Ferraris.
And although he had the edge on everyone else, third place was not enough to stay ahead of Raikkonen in the standings.


1. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari one hour 28 minutes 15.270 seconds
2. Felipe Massa (Brz) Ferrari 1.493 secs behind
3. Fernando Alonso (Spa) McLaren-Mercedes +57.019
4. Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams-Toyota + 1:02.848
5. Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber +1:10.957
6. Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber +1:11.317
7. Lewis Hamilton (GB) McLaren-Mercedes one lap behind
8. Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota one lap
9. David Coulthard (GB) Red Bull-Renault one lap
10. Kazuki Nakajima (Jpn) Williams-Toyota one lap
11. Ralf Schumacher (Ger) Toyota one lap
12. Takuma Sato (Jpn) Super Aguri-Honda two laps
13. Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) Toro Rosso-Ferrari two laps
14. Anthony Davidson (GB) Super Aguri-Honda three laps
R Adrian Sutil (Ger) Spyker-Ferrari 43 laps completed
R Rubens Barrichello (Brz) Honda 40 laps
R Heikki Kovalainen (Fin Renault 35 laps
R Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 34 laps
R Jenson Button (GB) Honda 20 laps
R Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault 14 laps
R Sakon Yamamoto (Jpn) Spyker-Ferrari two laps
R Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Renault one lap

R = retired

(BBC Sport)

World News today: Turkey vows to defeat PKK rebels

Turkey's leaders have vowed to "pay any price" to defeat terrorism after the latest attack by Kurdish rebels, which killed at least 12 soldiers.

In clashes following the ambush near the Iraqi border, 32 PKK rebels were killed, the military said.
Security officials, ministers and top generals met on Sunday night to discuss whether to attack PKK bases in Iraq.
But despite a strongly worded statement, they did not imply an attack was imminent, a BBC correspondent says.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had asked Turkey not to take action for a few days.
This, he said, was a sign that Washington was taking Turkey's concerns very seriously.

Turkey has requested that US and Iraqi forces root out PKK rebels from the mountains in Kurdish northern Iraq.
On Wednesday, MPs voted overwhelmingly in support of a motion to allow the military to launch offensives across the border.
It followed an escalation of raids by the PKK - the Kurdistan Workers' Party - as part of its armed campaign for Kurdish autonomy.
Recent attacks blamed on the group have left more than 40 Turkish soldiers and civilians dead.

Protests erupt
"Although it respects Iraq's territorial integrity, Turkey will not tolerate that terrorism be aided and abetted and will not be afraid to pay, whatever the price may be, to protect its rights, its indivisible unity and its citizens," said a statement issued after the emergency meeting on Sunday.

"The fight against the separatist terrorist organisation will be waged with determination until the very end," the statement said.
In the latest attack shortly after midnight on Saturday, a large group of PKK rebels crossed the border from Iraq and staged their ambush near the village of Daglica in Hakkari province, the Turkish military said.
The army said it sent reinforcements and helicopters to the area, fired artillery and launched retaliatory attacks in which 32 guerrillas were killed.
The guerrillas said they had captured several soldiers, but this was denied by the government.
Not far from the scene of the fighting, a minibus was later caught in a landmine explosion, also blamed on the PKK, that injured 10 civilians, the state news agency Anatolia said.
Thousands of Turks joined protests in several cities denouncing the attacks and calling for action against the PKK.

Restraint urged
About 3,000 PKK fighters are believed to be based in northern Iraq near the Turkish border, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul.

There have been regular clashes in the area since earlier in the year, but the latest attack was one of the deadliest for some time, increasing the pressure on the government from the public and the military for a tough response, our correspondent says.
The United States, Turkey's Nato ally, has called for restraint, fearing that any incursions would destabilise Iraq's most peaceful area - the autonomous Kurdish region in the north.
Iraq, too, has urged Turkey not to strike across the border.
Iraq's president on Sunday called on the PKK rebels to lay down their arms, or to leave Iraq.

(BBC News)