Last weekend Mark Kent and his son Alexandre played a soccer match with a bunch of youngsters in Hanoi, their last in Vietnam before the British ambassador returns home at the end of his tenure.
Mark had chosen to play the sport to relax during his three years in Hanoi and his soccer friends gave father and son a sendoff before the match.
“I only play 15-20 minutes in each half,” he said. He is now 44 years old.
Mark and Alexandre took turns to play as a striker.
“Lam ra lam, choi ra choi” (Work hard, play hard), the ambassador said in fluent Vietnamese.
After the match, the team went out to drink draught beer on the streets. In the UK, Mark will still play soccer with his son during weekends but will miss the Hanoi draught beer.
During his stay in the country since December 2007 he became famous for his Vietnamese blog to connect with the local online community and deepen the understanding between two countries.
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