The meeting between leaders of Tottenham and HA.GL.

VietNamNet Bridge – That is what the Executive Director of the English football club Tottenham, Paul Barber, said in the meeting with leaders of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), a Vietnamese club, recently. 

Yesterday, October 24, leaders of HAGL visited and met with representatives of the English club Tottenham Hotspurs in the meeting room of the White Lane Part Stadium. The Vietnamese club’s leaders talked with their English counterpart’s Executive Director Paul Barber and Business Manager Ben Wright. 

Tottenham is the first stop of the Vietnamese club’s leaders in seeking cooperation with several English football clubs in the future. 

The chairman of HAGL Doan Nguyen Duc introduced his English partners to his club as well as talked about how the sport was developing in Vietnam. Duc also mentioned the large investment HAGL had planned to invest in the club with the view to making it an excellent one not just in the Southeast Asian region. 

At the meeting, leaders of the Tottenham Hotspurs seemed to be interested in the cooperation between the two clubs. According to Mr Paul Barber, currently Tottenham has 50 professional footballers who are playing for the club. It also has a good training system for young footballers. As the club is hoping to further promote its influences in Southeast Asia, HAGL therefore would be an important partner for the English club in implementing this plan. 

Paul Barber also said that he saw Vietnam was a good country for the sport as it had a population of more than 80 million and the people were excessively fond of football. Vietnam has the opportunity to become a strong nation in Asia in terms of soccer, he added. 

Paul promised to carefully look at the possibility to cooperate with HAGL and pledged that Tottenham would provide the Vietnamese club with support when its team arrived in England for training. 

The Vietnamese club’s leader then invited Paul to visit Vietnam and the Vietnamese club in the future. 

HAGL leaders are scheduled to meet with representatives of another English club, Arsenal, today, October 25. 

Ngoc Dung