Thể Công–Viettel FC

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Thể Công–Viettel Football Club (Vietnamese pronunciation: [tʰe˧˩ kəwŋ͡m˧˧-], Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ Bóng đá Thể Công – Viettel), commonly and formerly known as Thể Công and Viettel FC, is a Vietnamese professional football club based in Hanoi. The club is formally operated by Viettel Sports Center – an affiliation of Viettel Group – and competes in the V.League 1, the top tier of the Vietnamese football league system. Thể Công–Viettel is the modern incarnation of Thể Công, a historically prominent club in Vietnamese football. The club won 9 North Vietnam national titles before Vietnam's reunification and 6 V.League 1 titles. Those titles make Thể Công one of the greatest football club in Vietnam's history. It has also produced a number of players who went on to represent the Vietnamese national team. Thể Công–Viettel's traditional colour is red, leading to the nickname Cơn lốc đỏ (Red Tornado). As Thể Công, they held a long-standing rivalry with Công An Hà Nội, known as the "Capital derby...

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