Futsal 

 HÀ NỘI -- Referee Trương Quốc Dũng of Việt Nam is one of 39 officials who will be officiating at the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2024 later this year.

Dũng is a familiar face of the national amateur and professional competitions. He became FIFA referee in 2009 and is currently member of the Việt Nam Football Federation's Referee Council with special responsibility for futsal.

The 42-year-old's professionalism is appreciated local and internationally and he regularly works at the Asian Football Confederation's events. It was the AFC who proposed Dũng to FIFA for the 2024 FIFA World Cup.

It will be the second time that Dũng has been assigned to this highest level tournament of indoor football, he refereed at it in 2016.

The World Cup will be held from September 14 to October 6 in Andijan, Bukhara and Tashkent in Uzbekistan.

The Việt Nam futsal team sadly missed out on this event, after failing to be in top five of the Asian Futsal Cup 2024 in April in Thailand. VNS