University of Social Sciences and Humanities participates in the "2017 Open Ethnic Academy Football Tournament"

The football team of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities is led by comrade Nguyen Van Thuy (Vice President of the Trade Union, Vice President of the University Sports Association) and comrade Tran Bach Hieu (Secretary of the University Youth Union). The 15 athletes of the team are cadres working at the faculties and the Rectorate.

This is the first year that the Ethnic Academy has organized a football tournament and invited many units with strong sports movements to participate. The tournament aims to enhance cooperation between units not only in trade union activities, sports activities but also in professional work.

The matches took place excitingly on two football fields of the Coma 6 sports complex. The organizers randomly drew two pairs of knockout matches, the two winning teams of the two matches met in the final, and the two losing teams met to compete for third place.

In the first match, the team of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities met the team of the Ethnic Minority Academy. Although they had some difficulties when the other team took the lead quite early and had to play with one less player at the end of the first half, in the second half, the players played explosively, winning the Ethnic Minority Academy with a score of 2-1 to enter the final match. In the remaining match, the Regional Political Academy 1 had to "give up" the ticket to the final match after losing to the Ethnic Minority Committee team.

The match between the two teams of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Committee for Ethnic Minorities was very dramatic, with many beautiful plays, skillful ball handling situations of the players of both teams and deservedly an impressive final match of the tournament. Although leading 2-0 for almost the entire match, but just a moment of lapse of concentration of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Committee for Ethnic Minorities team scored 2 goals to equalize in the last minutes of extra time of the match, bringing the two teams to a penalty shootout. And in the penalty shootout, the Committee for Ethnic Minorities team excellently won 4-2, thereby winning the championship of the 2017 Open Ethnic Minorities Academy Football Tournament.

In the remaining match, the Ethnic Academy team won against the Regional Political Academy team 1 to win 3rd place overall.

At the end of the tournament, the Organizing Committee awarded prizes to the teams: First prize for the team of the Ethnic Committee, Second prize for the team of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Third prize for the team of the Ethnic Academy and an encouragement prize for the team of the Academy of Politics, Region 1. The Organizing Committee also awarded additional prizes: Oldest athlete prize, Best player prize, First goal scorer prize and Best fan prize.

Some pictures:

Teams participating in the opening ceremony

The University of Social Sciences and Humanities football team is preparing to compete with the Academy of Ethnic Minorities football team.

The University of Social Sciences and Humanities football team is preparing to compete with the Ethnic Committee football team.

The team of University of Social Sciences and Humanities received second prize.