Hai Phong: Opening of the 2025 Hoa Phuong Football Tournament

VHO - On the morning of June 27, at the training ground of Hai Phong Football Club, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hai Phong city coordinated with the Department of Education and Training and the Hai Phong Football Federation to organize the 2025 Hoa Phuong Football Tournament (for teenage boys and boys).

Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hai Phong city Pham Thi To Trang - Head of the Organizing Committee awarded souvenir flags to the teams participating in the tournament.

Attending the opening ceremony were Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Pham Thi To Trang, Head of the Organizing Committee of the tournament. Also attending were representatives of leaders of departments, branches, sectors and related units.

The 2025 Hoa Phuong Football Tournament will be held from June 27, 2025 to July 15, 2025. Accordingly, the youth age group has 293 athletes from 15 teams, the children age group has 203 athletes from 15 teams.

Teams of both age groups are divided into 4 groups to compete in a round robin to calculate rankings, with the 4 first-place teams and 4 second-place teams from the 4 groups advancing to the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals.

Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hai Phong city Pham Thi To Trang - Head of the Organizing Committee delivered the opening speech of the tournament.

The 2025 Hoa Phuong Football Tournament is an annual tournament, creating a healthy playground for children to develop the football movement among teenagers and children, on that basis discovering and nurturing talented football buds for the city.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hai Phong City Pham Thi To Trang - Head of the Organizing Committee emphasized: The tournament has practical and healthy meaning for children and adolescents.

Through the tournament's matches, experts also discover and select outstanding talents, thereby affirming the growth of this traditional tournament.

Hai Phong is one of the strong localities in nurturing young talents for the country's sports.

Immediately after the opening ceremony, the players entered the competition, giving the audience dramatic and exciting matches.

To successfully organize the Hoa Phuong Football Tournament, the Deputy Director of Culture, Sports and Tourism requested relevant units and members of the Organizing Committee to coordinate closely, organize carefully, ensure safety, create all favorable conditions for the Tournament to take place with the highest results; referees to manage the tournament accurately and objectively...

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