Vietnamese sports transfer by means of phases
Mr. Nguyen Danh Hoang Viet – Director of the Vietnam Sports Administration – stated that the 80-year journey of Vietnamese sports is just not solely a steady improvement course of but additionally a change in function and group by means of every interval.
Looking again on the 8-decade journey, it may be affirmed that it is a very proud journey, clearly exhibiting the function and place of bodily training and sports within the revolutionary reason for the nation.
During the years of resistance in opposition to French colonialism, revolutionary bodily training and sports had been constructed in accordance to the Party’s viewpoints and Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, straight serving revolutionary duties, for the advantage of the folks. The actions’Health for the nation’,’Health for resistance, nationwide building’ turned the core of bodily training and sports (TDTT) on this interval,” Mr. Viet stated.

After the war periods, sports gradually shifted to a system development model, expanding mass movements and gradually integrating internationally.
This process is marked by many specific milestones, reflecting the progress in the quality of achievements. Vietnamese sports set the world record for the first time in 1962 by shooter Tran Oanh; the milestone of Olympic reintegration in 1980; the first ASIAD gold medal in 1994 by Tran Quang Ha; the first Olympic medal in 2000 by Tran Hieu Ngan; the Olympic gold medal in 2016 by Hoang Xuan Vinh; the women’s football team qualified for the 2023 World Cup; the U23 men’s team won the Asian runner-up title in 2018…
Throughout 80 years of journey, Vietnam has also hosted and successfully organized many major international sports events such as SEA Games 22 (2003), 3rd Asian Indoor Games (2009), 5th Asian Beach Games (2016), SEA Games 31 (2022) and many other important international tournaments.
Mr. Viet emphasized: “Those achievements not solely carry skilled worth, however are additionally a vivid image of the desire, aspiration and bravery of Vietnamese folks.

Science-based orientation
At the present stage, in accordance to Mr. Nguyen Danh Hoang Viet, the basic change lies in making sports science and technology a pillar in coaching and competitors.
It could be stated that sports science and technology have turn into one of many decisive components in enhancing the achievements of Vietnamese athletes, particularly once we purpose for main arenas akin to ASIAD and Olympic Games.
First of all, now we have made clear progress in making use of science to coaching. If beforehand coaching primarily relied on the expertise of coaches, now groups have paid extra consideration to scientific components akin to train physiology, diet, restoration, competitors psychology and train load administration. This is a crucial shift, laying the inspiration for a contemporary coaching strategy,” Mr. Viet analyzed.

Currently, the system serving sports science is gradually being completed, from training centers, sports medicine to biomedical testing and doping control. The application of technology in technical analysis, tracking of exercise indicators and building athlete databases has also been implemented.
According to the Director of the Vietnam Sports Administration, this is the basis for the training process to become accurate, and can be individualized for each athlete, instead of applying a common method.
Not only stopping at the present, the 10-year orientation is established with the requirement to improve competitiveness quality at a higher level.
Mr. Nguyen Danh Hoang Viet emphasized: “We establish the objective within the subsequent 10 years as persevering with to develop Vietnamese sports in a sustainable, skilled and approaching continental and world degree path.
First of all, when it comes to achievements, Vietnamese sports strives to preserve its place within the high on the SEA Games, however extra importantly, to improve competitiveness at ASIAD and purpose to win extra medals on the Olympic Games. This is a qualitative shift, exhibiting the aspiration to attain out to the large playground”.
Along with the goal of achievement, Mr. Viet said that the sports sector will focus on building a synchronous and in-depth training system, in which school sports play a fundamental role, and training routes are interconnected from the local level to the national team.
In addition, key investment in Olympic sports and strength sports is identified as a breakthrough solution.
Mr. Viet also emphasized: “Another necessary objective is to promote the applying of science and technology and synthetic intelligence in coaching, competitors and sports administration. This might be a key issue to shorten the hole with superior sports.
Going together with that’s the path of growing the sports financial system and strengthening socialization to mobilize extra non-budgetary sources, creating situations to improve the standard of coaching and competitors.
Vietnamese sports is transferring to a stage of improvement based mostly on science, knowledge and centered funding, with the objective of enhancing its place in continental and world arenas within the subsequent decade.