As soon as the Da Nang branch of the Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB) has not funded training programmes for the city’s U11 and U13 football teams for many years, the city has faced many difficulties in training young footballers.

Deputy Director Hung and some local young footballers.

Therefore, in recent years, the city’s football teams have to rely on domestic footballers from other localities nationwide through transfer windows because local young players have not met the requirements of their coaches.

As a result, the city-based team ranked 9^th out of 14 participating teams in Viet Nam's top-tier V-League 2015, 2017, and 2018.

As the situation of the municipal football sector has started to rapidly go downhill, SHB has decided to refund training programmes for U11 and U13 football teams..

Four years later, the city’s football sector has seen many positive changes.

In particular, SHB Da Nang’s U13 team progressed into the final of U13 National Championships 2018. Meanwhile, the U21 team took bronze medal in the football category at the 8^th National Sports Festival last year.

Mr Dao Quang Hung, Deputy Director of the SHB Da Nang Youth Football Training Centre, said the centre played a vital role in providing talented football players for the city’s football sector.

He also highlighted the significance of training young footballers in helping the local sports sectors to realise its long-term targets, and to significantly reduce the costs of recruiting domestic footballers from other localities.

In addition to its new and modern sports facilities, the Centre boasts coaches with rich experience who all are former footballers from Da Nang and Quang Nam Province. Included are Nguyen Phuong Trung, Bui Thong Tan, Vo Phuoc, Le Van Ha, Huynh Quoc Anh and Tran Anh Khoa.

Most notably, these coaches have already finished coaching courses which are organised by the Asian Football Federation (AFC).

Mr Hung has recently asked the SHB Da Nang Club to create more favourable for local young footballers to compete in many tournaments in the time ahead in order to improve their professional skills, as well as promote the development of local football sector as a whole.