Khanh Hoa’s sports teams start practicing for new season

Khanh Hoa Province’s sports teams have recently resumed practicing after Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays.

Khanh Hoa’s U19 football team

More than 60 athletes of the provincial athletics team gathered at the Provincial Center of Sports Technique Training on February 13. The athletics players need to actively practice for the upcoming Tien Phong Newspaper athletics tournament scheduled to take place in Phu Yen Province at the end of February. Excellent player Tran Nhat Hoang practiced with his teammates in the morning training before leaving to join the national athletics team.

Muay Thai team also started their training to prepare for the provincial Muay Thai clubs tournament in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province in early March. With the tournament approaching, the Muay Thai team had a tight schedule and trained until lunar December 27, took advantage of the Tet holidays to practice individually, and then resumed formal training after their holidays concluded. In this tournament last season, Khanh Hoa’s Muay Thai team displayed excellent performances and secured 2 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 3 bronze medals. The team is actively practicing and hope for good achievements this season.

Khanh Hoa athletics athletes practicing for new season

Another team resuming practicing on lunar January 4 is the provincial U19 football team. The team are preparing for the national U19 final round planned to take place in Binh Duong Province from February 21 to March 5. After finishing the preliminary round at the end of January, the team kept practicing until lunar December 28 and took Tet holidays. Khanh Hoa’s U19 team performed well in the preliminary and placed second in Group D with 17 points after 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. This result secured them a place in the final round. This is also the second time in a row Khanh Hoa’s U19 football team have qualified for the finals. They had a friendly match with Song Lam Nghe An U19 on February 15 and will meet Hue U19 on February 17 afternoon before travelling to Binh Duong to join the tournament.

Reportedly, many other sports teams of Khanh Hoa resumed practicing on February 15 (lunar January 6), namely beach volleyball, indoor volleyball, taekwondo, karat, etc. 

An Nhien
Translated by H.N