Football was back and so were the spectators in Vietnam on Friday when the top domestic league resumed after the coronavirus shutdown. | AP
Fans were allowed into Ho Chi Minh City’s scoreless draw with Hai Phong among three matches, But unlike Germany’s Bundesliga and South Korea’s K-League, which returned to action in May with empty arenas, more than 1,000 fans attended the V-League game at Hai Phong.Allowing spectators to the matches was the result of Vietnam’s successful efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The number, affected by an inconvenient kickoff time, was small compared to the league’s average attendance of over 7,000 in 2019.
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