Referee Nguyen Trong Thu has been voted the winner of the GoldenWhistle prize for the 2013 football season, announced the VietnamFootball Federation on September 18.
The DaNang-born referee won the majority of votes cast with a total of 230points, 30 points more than the Silver Whistle winner Vo Minh Tri, and67 points above the third place finisher Phung Dinh Dung, who washonoured with the Bronze Whistle award.
This is thefirst time Nguyen Trong Thu, who proved his skills in many difficultmatches of the season, has been named the league’s best referee,following two consecutive Bronze Whistles in 2011 and 2012.
Vo Quang Vinh, who won the Gold Whistle awards for the past two years,is absent from the list of the top five referees of the 2013 footballseason because he did not work in the second half of the season owingto his heel wound, according to the VietnamNet Bridge.
The2013 Golden Flag award was presented to linesman Pham Manh Long, whoreceived 231 points, naming him the most outstanding assistant refereein the V-League for the fifth time (2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013), morethan any other linesman in league history.
LinesmenTran Thanh Liem and Tran Minh Thang won this year’s Silver and BronzeFlag prizes with 134 and 130 points, respectively.-VNA
The DaNang-born referee won the majority of votes cast with a total of 230points, 30 points more than the Silver Whistle winner Vo Minh Tri, and67 points above the third place finisher Phung Dinh Dung, who washonoured with the Bronze Whistle award.
This is thefirst time Nguyen Trong Thu, who proved his skills in many difficultmatches of the season, has been named the league’s best referee,following two consecutive Bronze Whistles in 2011 and 2012.
Vo Quang Vinh, who won the Gold Whistle awards for the past two years,is absent from the list of the top five referees of the 2013 footballseason because he did not work in the second half of the season owingto his heel wound, according to the VietnamNet Bridge.
The2013 Golden Flag award was presented to linesman Pham Manh Long, whoreceived 231 points, naming him the most outstanding assistant refereein the V-League for the fifth time (2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013), morethan any other linesman in league history.
LinesmenTran Thanh Liem and Tran Minh Thang won this year’s Silver and BronzeFlag prizes with 134 and 130 points, respectively.-VNA