Since … forever, football has been known as the king of sports, with millions of fans around the world playing and watching it. And of course, male members of H-A-O are not much different, they love it. Along with table tennis and swimming tournament, a football tournament had been organized to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hanoi- Amsterdam High School. It attracted many talented players of many H-A-O generations o­n the reunion day and gave spectators plenty of great matches and exciting scenes.

After a long “hibernation”, H-A-O members and the Football Club o­n H-A-O had agreed o­n organizing the “H-A-O FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT” for all male members who were interested. There were 12 participating teams, Physic (98-01), Russian (00-03), Sport Club (HAO), MATH (02-05), CHEMISTRY (03-06), IT (04-07), CHEMISTRY (04-07), PHYSIC2 (04-07), FRENCH-CHEMISTRY2-GEOGRAPHY (05-08), PHYSIC (05-08), ENGLISH3 (05-08), MATH1,2-CHEMISTRY1-IT (05-08).

After the opening day (Dec. 17th, 2005), all 12 teams tried their best to play in a high sportsmanship and solidarity of 20 generations of Hanoi-Amsterdam students. In those 7 days of the tournament, Nghia Tan foodball field was always filled with chants and cheers from the loyalty fans of each team. The final results, the best 2 teams, IT (04-07) and Physic (98-01), had beaten every other opponent to face each other for the prestigious final showdown o­n Saturday, Dec 24th at Van Phuc football field. For the group stage results, please go to this site .

Although the upper generation has more experience but in the end the strength of the youth had helped IT (04-07) finished o­n top in a thrilling match up. The final result, 1st prize belongs to IT (04-07), Physic (98-01) got 2nd and 3rd places go to French-Chemistry2-Geography (05-08) and Physic (05-08)

The prizes for the champion were a trophy and banner, while 2nd and 3rd places also got banners of recognition. In addition to those, each player also got a T-shirt from HAO valued 170.000 VND. The tournament had ended but it will be a fond memory for all.




Written by : Phạm Lê Huy (Pháp 2 - 0407)
Translated by: Nguyễn Hoài Anh (Anh 2 - 01-04)