VIETNAM NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM

The 'Vietnam national football team' is the national team of Vietnam and is controlled by the Vietnam Football Federation.
When Vietnam was split into North Vietnam and South Vietnam, two national teams existed; the North Vietnamese team was not very active, playing almost exclusively against other Communist countries between 1956 and 1966 whilst the South Vietnamese team took part in the first two Asian Cups finals, finishing fourth both times. South Vietnam played their last match in 1975, but the unified Vietnam national team only started playing in 1991.
Vietnam has yet to win the regional Tiger Cup, coming closest to victory in 1998 when hosting the tournament. However, they suffered a 1-0 defeat in the final to Singapore in what still ranks as one of the biggest upsets of the competition.
The biggest achievements of the team were qualifying for the final round of the 2008 Summer Olympics football qualification rounds and the second round (quarter final) of the Asian Cup 2007.

Contents

Scandals

World Cup record

Asian Cup record

Tiger Cup record

King's Cup record

Coaches

Players

See Also

External links

Scandals

After the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, four members of the Vietnam U-23 football team (Pham Van Quyen, Le Quoc Vuong, Huynh Quoc Anh, and Le Bat Hieu) were charged and arrested with match-fixing and gambling on the Semifinal match against Myanmar. Betters payed Pham Van Quyen and Le Quoc Voung a total of 23 million Vietnamese dongs to play as slow as possible in the match, and Huynh Quoc Anh and Le Bat Hieu 20 millions each to make sure Vietnam do not win by more than 1 goal. The match ended with Vietnam winning 1-0.

World Cup record

World Cup:
Yet to qualify

Asian Cup record

★ 1956 to 1992 - ''Did not enter''

★ 1996 to 2004 - ''Did not qualify''

★ 2007 - Quarterfinals

Tiger Cup record

★ 1996 - Third Place

★ 1998 - Runners Up

★ 2000 - Semi Finals

★ 2002 - Third Place

★ 2004 - Round 1

★ 2007 - Semi-Finals

King's Cup record

★ 2006 - Runners Up

Coaches

★ Head coach : Alfred Riedl

★ Assistant coach : Mai Đức Chung, Trần Công Minh

Players

★ 1 Bùi Quang Huy ''(gk)'' ★ 2 Phùng Văn Nhiên ★ 3 Nguyễn Huy Hoàng ★ 4 Nguyễn Minh Đức ★ 5 Nguyễn Văn Biển ★ 8 Thạch Bảo Khanh ★ 9 Lê Công Vinh ★ 10 Nguyễn Quý Sửu ★ 11 Lê Hồng Minh

★ 12 Nguyễn Minh Phương ''(c)'' ★ 14 Lê Tấn Tài ★ 15 Nguyễn Mạnh Dũng ★ 17 Nguyễn Vũ Phong ★ 18 Phan Thanh Bình ★ 20 Đặng Văn Thành ★ 21 Nguyễn Anh Đức ★ 22 Phan Văn Tài Em ★ 24 Dương Hồng Sơn ''(gk)'' ★ 25 Nguyễn Thế Anh ''(gk)'' ★ 26 Trần Đức Cường ''(gk)''

See Also

★ Football in Vietnam

External links

★ Vietnam Football Federation official site