The Bola Sport newspaper recently had an article on the penalty of U21 Vietnam Women's Volleyball Tel at the World U21 Women's Volleyball Championship 2025.
According to the Bola newspaper, “the effort of the U21 Indonesian women's volleyball team paid off when they won the right to the 1/8 round of the World U21 Women's Volleyball Championship 2025”.
“Indonesia's young women's volleyball team benefits from the rival of Group A, Vietnam has been applied by the penalty. Nearly all Vietnam's wins were canceled after the World Volleyball Federation (FIVB) issued an official announcement that the team used athletes who were not eligible for competition.”
“The two most noticeable names are the captain and hand scoring score, Dang Thi Hong and her father Nguyen Phong Quynh, because her appearance is said to be” like men “.
One of these two athletes was banned from competing in the rest of the tournament. Falling at the bottom of the table, Vietnam was forced to continue competing in the ranking round from rank 17 to 24 “.
Meanwhile, with Indonesia, the 0-3 defeat to Vietnam in the opening turn suddenly became a 3-0 victory. This result helps Indonesia from the 5th place to the third place, reaching the top 4 teams of the table and winning tickets to the 1/8 round.
Earlier, Indonesia only almost moved away when there was only one victory, the rest were two unfortunate defeats in the last set in 5 set matches against Puerto Rico and Serbia.
However, the U21 Indonesian volleyball team was soon eliminated when losing 1-3 with the scores 12-25, 19-25, 25-21 and 13-25 BC U21 Italia's U21 Tel in the 1/8 round.
Meanwhile, the U21 Vietnam Women's Volleyball Tel has created a “earthquake” when defeating the 15-world U21 Puerto Rico team with a score of 3-1, thereby finishing the group stage with second place in Group A. With this achievement, U21 Vietnam will enter the 1/8 round and confront the third team C, Türkiye.
Immediately after the choking victory of U21 Vietnam against Puerto Rico, Thailand's Thaiirath newspaper gave information that the athletes Dang Thi Hong and Nguyen Phuong Quynh were required by the World Volleyball Federation (FIVB).
Citing the source from Thailath newspaper, the news that the two athletes did not participate in the match against Puerto Rico on August 12 because they were waiting for chromosomal test results to verify valid gender.
According to medical expertise, Chromosomal examination to determine the analysis of sex chromosomes (XX – Female, XY – Men) helps eliminate controversies or doubts related to gender in professional sports. This incident made fans and media in the region unexpectedly and curious, because this is a controversial and sensitive development in the international competition environment.
Representative of the Vietnam Volleyball Federation (VFV) denied the incident. Both have to get blood samples and urine. The inspection is randomly in accordance with the provisions of the World Volleyball Federation (FIVB).
In addition, FIVB asked Vietnam to provide additional birth documents of the two players mentioned above. VFV was surprised when the papers were sent before the tournament, and if there was a problem, it would be resolved in a technical meeting a day before the tournament.
Dang Thi Hong and Nguyen Phuong Quynh can return to the competition if the test results are not abnormal. VFV is trying to let the two athletes do not lose the opportunity to play in the Vietnamese match against Türkiye in the 1/8 U21 round in the world tomorrow on 13/8.
The World U21 tournament was held from August 7 to August 17 in Surabaya, Indonesia with 24 teams attending. At the end of the group stage, Vietnam made a strong impression when winning the host of Indonesia 3-0, Serbia 3-1, Canada 3-1 and Puerto Rico 3-1 to get 12 points. The team only lost to Argentina, so he ranked second.