[Vnbiz] Vnbiz Digest, Vol 27, Issue 12 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Fri Dec 14 01:00:52 PST 2007

Dear anh Shandon

I totally agree with you about unprofessional or "excessive" behaviour of
the fans and the officials. But please noted what have just happened with
England team? And its coach? Recently, what just happened with coaches of
Chelsea and Tottenham Spurs, who were admired by their pupils, but not the
fans. They were sacked! It is appears that the coach position is more and
more pressure and the leaving of those guys after failure has becoming
normal. I assume football is a special game (it is called King of sport
games, isn't it?) that received so much admiral or crazy "love" all over
the world. As a result, football workers (including coaches and players)
should be familiar with such pressure.

This issue could open another topic. Please refer to my previous email
regarding the poor public/community entertainment in many urban areas in
Vietnam. Not many book readers (see the number of publications - 1000
copies per title in average), not many public entertainment place, not many
gymnastic venues/swimming pools or other kind of playing fields, etc. It is
understandable that watching football (and attaching games like betting on
TV) has become the most popular favourite of a majority group of people.
Through daily engagement with a favourite, I believe that would create a
kind of "love". Let's think about the guy who offered giving Rield a
kidney, how could he do that without a big love to the national team and
therefore, to its coach?

All the best

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>> Anh Quang said: When people receive love, they should live up with
that love. It is not a writing rule, but that's a common sense of
people, I believe.

If you call that "love," I think that's a very immature expression of
"love" on the part of Vietnamese fans and sports officials.  Reading
the news before, during and after the game, all I see is a sense of
almost fanatical attitude of many fans, with the Vietnamese media
playing a big part in hyping it up.  How about sportmanship, honor,
respect, I would deem these qualities to be the standards to measure
Vietnam's progress.  I read many articles predicting how Vietnam will
kick the Burmese azz adn others worrrying about losing, but I haven't
seen any article or a single word from the pundits about sportmanship.
 I think for our big population, Vietnam can produce many qualified
competitors but we also need a lot of time to grow.

Sometimes, I wonder whether the fans' "crazy, fanatical expression of
love" for soccer or any other sport is just an indirect consequence of
the lack of freedom to express themselves in other aspects of life.

It is one thing that we have many from the audience acting so
disrespectful toward a coach that took their team to unprecedent level
of success, it is another thing when none of the officials or public
commentators say anything about this very negative behavior.  True
that the coach got paid the most out of all foreign coaches as anh
Quang pointed out, but isn't it true that he also has done a lot for
Vietnam.  A dream of a gold medal in soccer is a dream for every Asian
country but how you fight the fight earns the international respect
for the team and for Vietnam in the eyes of our Asian neighbors.  And
how the competitors carry themselves, whether they win or lose,
matters.

Unfairness is sometime a fact of life.  But it shows a serious lack of
sportmanship and maturity when the audience shouted to the coach with
disrespectful words, or the sports authority forced the coach to
resign within a matter of hours after Vietnam's loss, or when the
free-style fighter running from the fighting ring, crying because he
felt the referee was unfair, and then, decided to jump-kick the
referee to revenge.  This sudden change of attitute and extreme
behavior were totally immature and should be discouraged.

THe reality is that Vietnamese competitors have not learned to handle
themselves very well on the international stage, in front of the eyes
of the world.  We walked away with a lot of medals, but how about a
single class act that shows the true spirit of sports, or of the Viet
people?

"Lanh dao khong co sang suot trong chinh sach va cung cach ung xu, van
dong vien thi thieu chuan bi, thieu tinh than the thao va khong tu chu
duoc chinh minh, va co dong vien thi qua khich va hao thang."

THere is a lot to think about anh Hoanh's message below.

Shandon

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From: "Tran Dinh Hoanh" <tdhoanh at gmail.com>
To: vnbiz at vietlinks.net
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:04:32 -0500
Subject: [Vnbiz] Coach Riedl resigns

Dear CACC,

Immediately after Vietnam the lost to Myanmar at the SEA Games soccer
match, coach Riedl of the Viet U23 team was pressured to resign and
has just resigned today.  I must say, that is a very grateful attitude
from both the soccer fans and soccer authorities to a coach!  I have
not known that the Vietnamese can turn their back on someone so fast.

Fine, if people want to be so demanding and ungrateful about it.  But
this is soccer, guys.  It is just a game.  Why no one is even 1/10
serious when it comes to more important things, like the government.
When government officials do all kinds of unethical and questionable
conduct, no one seems to care about demanding an immediate
resignation, or even some kind of sanction.

Isn't that something!

Have a great day!

Hoanh
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