My Vietnam

This evening Vietnam played soccer against Thailand in the final match of the Suzuki Cup 2008. Vietnam has played extremely well during this cup compared to earlier and this second match against Thailand made Vietnam the winner of the cup for the first time ever.

Vietnam won the first match against Thailand 2-1 on Christmas eve in Thailand. The streets of Ho Chi Minh City went crazy after that match there were people everywhere preventing us from leaving New World Hotel where we had our Christmas dinner.

We didn’t really pay attention to the fact that Vietnam and Thailand was going to play on Christmas eve, but when the streets outside New World Hotel was packed with happy people waving the Vietnamese flag on their motorbikes we knew that Vietnam won over Thailand, which is the first time ever as far as I know, at least I have never experienced that Vietnam has won over Thailand while I have lived here.

I got some great footage of the street next to New World Hotel of all the happy people as we were stuck there for around two hours before the traffic was restored to somewhat normal conditions, that is of course for Vietnamese standard.

This evening Vietnam and Thailand just finished the second match on Vietnam soil and I must admit for a long time it looked like Thailand was going to win after they scored one goal during the first half game, and during the second half game Vietnam just seemed to be unable to do anything.

Then in the last three minutes Vietnam got a free kick and scored! The crowd went wild and the players ran around wild some of them on the edge of fainting with sheer joy. The streets of Ho Chi Minh City wild go crazy tonight, wonder how many will come to work tomorrow on time

Final score of the second match was 1-1 and Vietnam won the Suzuki Cup 2008 over Thailand, congratulations Vietnam!!!