It''s 7.30pm on Saturday. Like any other Saturday,
all family members of retiree Le Thi Duc gather around a large table in
the living room in downtown Ha Noi. They have come to enjoy dinner
together, a weekly ritual the entire family attends.
The Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) has asked the
Ha Noi Joint Stock Football Company to suspend its chairman Nguyen Duc
Kien until an investigation into financial irregularities has been
concluded.
Football officials have said that the arrest of the
deputy chairman of the Viet Nam Professional Football Joint Stock
Company (VPF), Nguyen Duc Kien, had come as a big shock, but would not
affect the company or the national football leagues.