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Vietnam offers training to Cambodia’s vovinam players

| Publication date 11 October 2013 | 08:56 ICT

Vietnam offers training to Cambodia’s vovinam players

A delegation of 28 vovinam practitioners have been sent to Ho Chi Minh City for a eight-week training course ahead of participation at the 27th SEA Games in Myanmar in December.

The course, held thanks to cooperation between the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia and Vietnam, will see each athlete offered free accommodation, food and training from the Vietnamese authorities as well as 800,000 riel (US$197) from Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport.

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