My heart stops beating - AFC U23 Championship today.

Today all our country - Vietnam are intense and only one thing in our mind is the football match: Vietnam vs Uzbekistan.
This match is a glue to connect all our people. It's not only about football - I don't understand football though, but about a new milestone of this poor country.

We haven't have much victories nor proud achievements to be honest. Vietnam is well know about....war, (fight against China, France, Japan, the US..etc), it's mean our ex-victories came with big price - blood, tears. :(

At the present, we are suffering by corruption. Corruption is even in Sport: our athletes are not raised properly. It's quite common that the football team gets tired after the first 45 minute of the match, now they are still pro at 120th minute. So in love with them! <3

That's why when U23 Vietnam team can join to the final match, we - Vietnamese - are on top of the world.

We got mad when our U23 team won the semi-final match

We went out on the street, hanged flag and yelling and made noise in happy

Today is the final match.
It's crazily heavily snowing there and athletes of both teams had to try so hard.

Vietnam is a tropical weather country, under 20 degree is already cold for me. Watching they plying in that extreme condition melted my heart.

They did have a great match.

They are our heroes. They are standing for our new generation and give us hope: young, confident, polite, open minded, professional, generous and responsible.

Though they didn't win the match but still our champions.

They give us faith about this poor pity country and also make me thing about...myself - what I can do for others, for the country where I was born and raised.

*P/S: Photos are from Fb and my friends, not mine *