FIFA wants to open a football academy in Vietnam

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and FIFA President Gianni Infantino during a meeting in Malaysia on October 26. Photo: VGP

The meeting took place on the occasion of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's attendance at the 47th ASEAN Summit and related summits in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino always appreciates and supports the development of Vietnamese football. He commented that in recent times, Vietnamese football has made many positive steps forward, and Vietnamese football players are increasingly improving both physically and technically.

Mr. Infantino wants to build a FIFA Football Academy in Vietnam, thereby contributing to further improving the capacity of Vietnamese football.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh thanked the President for his support for Vietnamese football in the past time and hoped that the FIFA President would continue to support the development of Vietnamese football, connecting Vietnamese football with Italian football - one of the leading football nations in the world .

The Prime Minister also invited the FIFA President to visit Vietnam soon and attend some activities related to Vietnam. Mr. Gianni Infantino happily accepted.

Proposing the World Bank to support key projects

On the same day, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with World Bank Vice President Carlos Felipe Jaramillo.

The Prime Minister shared recent achievements in socio-economic development; asked the World Bank to step up consultations, connect Vietnam's economy with the world economy, increase resource mobilization, especially lending to Vietnam with more preferential interest rates and quicker, more convenient procedures.

In particular, the Prime Minister hopes that the World Bank will innovate its approach and improve the effectiveness of its support for Vietnam in key projects such as planting 1 million hectares of low-emission, high-quality rice in the Mekong Delta as well as important areas for Vietnam such as green transformation, participating in the ASEAN clean power grid, responding to climate change, preventing subsidence and natural disasters, etc.

The Prime Minister invited Mr. Jaramillo to visit Vietnam soon to discuss specific cooperation measures with specialized agencies.

For his part, Mr. Jaramillo expressed his impression of Vietnam's efforts and achievements in socio-economic development and improving people's lives in recent times. Agreeing with the proposals of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Mr. Jaramillo affirmed that the World Bank will continue to actively cooperate with Vietnam, accompanying and supporting Vietnam in achieving its development goals in the coming time.

Mr. Jaramillo expressed his wish to soon visit Vietnam to work directly with relevant agencies to concretize the contents discussed and agreed upon with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.