Vietnam Sports
Developing Vietnam’s Sport
In Vietnam, Sport is not considered as major industry. Although it is growing. In addition, Vietnamese people think athletes are same as workers. However, in my opinion, most of people are wrong. Because athletes spend time for studying and training in their fields. They work hard everyday. So, if Vietnam’s sport develops too slow, it’s not athlete’s fault. It is responsibility of coaches and president of sport industry. They have to change the way they think and mange to improve sport industry.
There are three questions that need to answer if we want to improve Vietnam’s sport:
How can we invest to a potential athlete?
How can we rise a competition level?
How can we create a new training method?
The first problem is Vietnam don’t put money to develop a good athletes. Recently, athletes are treated as celebrities. Sport’s president wants to invest for a team or person who is famous. For example: U19 football team. However, people don’t care about athletes who bring a glory for country. Besides, if those athletes lost, they will be criticized a lot. Those people are Van Ngoc Tu (Judo), Pham Van Mach (Bodybuilder), Nguyen Tien Minh (Badminton), women football team, etc. While women football team’s members receive 3 to 4 million VND per month, U19 football team’s member receive 15 to 20 million VND per month. In addition, U19 football team train and live in better facility. In spite of working in bad condition, women football team tried to overcome many obstacles and they gained an opportunity to attend at World Cup 2014.
Nowadays, most of coaches prefer young athletes form 10 to 15 years old. If you start playing sport at 17 – 18 years old, people will tell you that you’re too old to have a sport’s career. But young person are lack of responsibility. They play sport not by their passion, just because they get pay. Some athletes told me that: “I’m ready to be tortured (training) so that I can have money.” With that thought, they
In Vietnam, Sport is not considered as major industry. Although it is growing. In addition, Vietnamese people think athletes are same as workers. However, in my opinion, most of people are wrong. Because athletes spend time for studying and training in their fields. They work hard everyday. So, if Vietnam’s sport develops too slow, it’s not athlete’s fault. It is responsibility of coaches and president of sport industry. They have to change the way they think and mange to improve sport industry.
There are three questions that need to answer if we want to improve Vietnam’s sport:
How can we invest to a potential athlete?
How can we rise a competition level?
How can we create a new training method?
The first problem is Vietnam don’t put money to develop a good athletes. Recently, athletes are treated as celebrities. Sport’s president wants to invest for a team or person who is famous. For example: U19 football team. However, people don’t care about athletes who bring a glory for country. Besides, if those athletes lost, they will be criticized a lot. Those people are Van Ngoc Tu (Judo), Pham Van Mach (Bodybuilder), Nguyen Tien Minh (Badminton), women football team, etc. While women football team’s members receive 3 to 4 million VND per month, U19 football team’s member receive 15 to 20 million VND per month. In addition, U19 football team train and live in better facility. In spite of working in bad condition, women football team tried to overcome many obstacles and they gained an opportunity to attend at World Cup 2014.
Nowadays, most of coaches prefer young athletes form 10 to 15 years old. If you start playing sport at 17 – 18 years old, people will tell you that you’re too old to have a sport’s career. But young person are lack of responsibility. They play sport not by their passion, just because they get pay. Some athletes told me that: “I’m ready to be tortured (training) so that I can have money.” With that thought, they
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