By Michael Smith
Viet Nam News
HCM CITY — When Pangnha Chhiev first started playing Australian Rules football in Melbourne he knew his parents would forbid it.
So for the first month that he played, Chhiev packed a racquet in his bag and told his mum that he was going to play tennis. He could only hide it for a month as washing lines full of footy socks, shorts and jerseys raised his mum's suspicions.
Chhiev lived in Melbourne's south east near Springvale where the city's Vietnamese population concentrated. He was then in his last year of university and knew from past experience (he had requested to play football when he was only 10) that his parents did not approve of the dangerous sport.
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