Mohamed IlanMohamed Ilan
The Blank Cells in Vietnamese Football's DossierNine cells. That was all the dossier sent me on a midday in Rome: nine cells,...
VFF finalises presidential nominations for the 10th term: a glittering medal table and an unmeasured gapIn December, 57 member organisations of the Vietnam Football Federation will...
V.League Round 4 Capital Derby: CA Ha Noi's 270 Clean-Sheet Minutes Have Proven Nothing YetIn the 84th minute of CA Ha Noi's third match, the ball went out to the left...
The V.League 1 Transfer Window: The Noise of Signings and the Signal of StructureIt was a Tuesday afternoon at a training ground on the outskirts of Hanoi, th...
Empty Results: Vietnamese Football Hides the Numbers, and We Rewrite History OurselvesIn August 2026, in a coffee shop in Thu Dau Mot, I reopened the 2026...
Personnel Changes and the 2026/2026 V.League Title Race: Signals from Round 12The 2026/2026 V.League is entering its acceleration phase with unpredictable...
V.League 2026-26: The Title Race Is Decided by the Spreadsheets Nobody ReadsIn the 71st minute of the capital derby, a central midfielder received the ba...
Running Distance and the “Effort” Trap the V.League Weaves for ItselfHook In the 2026 season, on a June evening, I sat in the seventh row of stand...
Vietnamese Football Through Nine Professional Lenses: From the V.League 1 Pitch to the Industry Value ChainVietnamese football enters 2026 with a familiar paradox: the domestic game...
Vietnamese Football and the Data-Verification Problem: When Deep Analysis Has to Restart From ZeroVietnamese football is entering a period of intense professionalisation....
Referee's Eye: Nine Dimensions for Decoding Vietnamese FootballIn a V.League match, there are moments when the entire stadium holds its...
The Night at Viet Tri and the Groundskeeper Nobody RemembersTHE NIGHT AT VIET TRI AND THE GROUNDSKEEPER NOBODY REMEMBERS In Viet Tri, on...
The Pressing Framework of Vietnamese Football: Midfield Rhythm and the Export PathwayIn the second leg of the 2026 ASEAN Cup final at Rajamangala Stadium in...
The 2026 V-League Transfer Window: Read the Contract Structure, Not the HeadlinesOpening On the morning of January 12, 2026, at the Hoa Xuan training ground,...
VAR in V.League: When Referees Learn to Let the Data SpeakThe referee signalled no foul. Forty seconds later, the VAR team called him t...
Vietnamese Football: Nine Analytical Lenses from V.League 1 Pitches to a Continental DreamOpening: The Notebook and the Blank I Could Never Fill On a late-March night ...
The Gap No One Fills: Vietnamese Football and What Gets Left Behind Outside the FloodlightsI write one heartbeat slower so I never miss the moment when boots touch gras...
The V.League Transfer Window and the Silences That Never Make the Front PageMinute 89 on a V.League stand. August rain falling sideways, a few hundred...
The Heartbeat Inside the Ball: A Poet's Account of the 2026 AFF Championship NightOn the night of December 15, 2026, at My Dinh Stadium, when the final whistle...
AFC Asian Cup 2027 Qualifiers: When Vietnamese Football Needs to Listen to Its Own RhythmWhen the stadium is empty, I can hear the breath of the match. At a training...
