Vietnam Suzuki Cup 2008 Champion have signed a 5 year kit sponsorship deal with Nike. The deal is estimated to be worth around $5m.
The Vietnam national football team is the national team of Vietnam and is controlled by the Vietnam Football Federation.
When Vietnam was split into North Vietnam and South Vietnam, two national teams existed; the North Vietnamese team was not very active, playing almost exclusively against other Communist countries between 1956 and 1966 whilst the South Vietnamese team took part in the first two Asian Cups finals, finishing fourth both times. South Vietnam played their last match in 1975, but the unified Vietnam national team only started playing in 1991.
In the 2008 edition of the ASEAN Football Championship, Vietnam soundly defeated Thailand 3-2 on aggregate (first match 2-1, second match 1-1) in the final round to obtain its maiden international title. Exactly 10 years before, Vietnam was defeated 1-0 by the unfancied Singaporeans in Hanoi, in one of the biggest shocks in the tournament history.
The biggest achievements of the team were the reaching the quarterfinal of the Asian Cup 2007 and the winning of the 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup.
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