Đỗ Hùng Dũng (, born 8 September 1993) is a Vietnamese professional

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who plays as an

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for

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club

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and

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the Vietnam national team.

Early life

Đỗ Hùng Dũng was born in Yên Viên town, Hanoi,

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. When he was 9 years old, Hùng Dũng showed early signs of his talent for playing football. However, his father repeatedly opposed his decision to pursue a career as a footballer. Despite this, Hùng Dũng's mother supported his dream. Eventually, with the consent of his entire family, he joined the Hanoi talent class.

Club career

Hanoi FC

Do Hung Dung was associated with the

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from the age of 17 after attending the club's development centre in

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. In 2015, he joined V.League 2 club

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on a season-long

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. On 11 December 2023, Do Hung Dung signed a contract extension, keeping him at Hanoi until 2026. In the

2017 AFC Cup The 2017 AFC Cup was the 14th edition of the AFC Cup, Asia's secondary club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Defending champions Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya defeated Istiklol in the final to win their second AFC Cu ...

, Hùng Dũng scored 4 goals, becoming the second-highest scoring player for

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(formerly known as Hà Nội T&T) in the tournament after Văn Quyết. He was selected by sports website

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to the

ASEAN Zonal Team of the Group Stage. At the 2019 AFC Cup group stage,

set a new record for the biggest win in the tournament's history by thrashing NagaWorld FC 10-0. Đỗ Hùng Dũng scored the goal that made it 5-0 in this historic victory.

International career

In 2012, Đỗ Hùng Dũng was called up by coach Hoàng Văn Phúc to join the U-19 Vietnam national team participating in the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship. In 2014, Do Hung Dung was added to the list of the Vietnam U-23 national team by head coach Miura Toshiya to participate in the

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and the AFC U-23 Championship qualifiers. In 2022, Do Hung Dung officially returned and wore the captain's armband for the Vietnam U23 national team to compete in the 31st SEA Games.

Personal life

Do Hung Dung married Trieu Moc Trinh on 24 April 2019. On 29 October 2019, the couple had their first child, a son named Gia Bao.

Career statistics

International

International goals

Vietnam U23 Vietnam

Honours

Sài Gòn * V.League 2:

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Hà Nội *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

; runner-up:

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

Vietnamese National Cup Vietnamese National Football Cup (), commonly recognized and branded as the National Cup (), is a Vietnamese Association football, football competition. It is one of the most important club competitions in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Cup was first he ...

; runner-up:

Vietnamese Super Cup Vietnamese National Football Super Cup (), also called the Thaco National Football Super Cup due to sponsorship reasons, is Vietnamese football's annual match contested between the champions of the previous V.League 1 season and the holders of th ...

: 2019, 2020, 2021; runner-up: 2016, 2017 Vietnam U23/Olympic *

Southeast Asian Games The Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as SEA Games is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with sup ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

fourth place:

VFF Cup The Vietnam Football Federation Vietnam International Friendly Cup or VFF Vietnam International Friendly Cup is a football tournament organised in Vietnam. Every year the tournament is regularly held at the Mỹ Đình National Stadium in Hanoi ...

Vietnam *

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; runner-up:

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runner-up:

Individual *

Vietnamese Golden Ball Vietnamese Golden Ball (), also referred to as ''Vietnamese Footballer of the Year'', is an annual association football award for the best performances of Vietnamese footballer over the previous year. Presented since 1995 by Sài Gòn Giải Phó ...

: 2019

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Do, Hung Dung 1993 births Living people Vietnamese men's footballers 21st-century Vietnamese sportsmen Men's association football midfielders V.League 1 players Hanoi FC players Footballers from Hanoi Footballers at the 2018 Asian Games 2019 AFC Asian Cup players 2023 AFC Asian Cup players Asian Games footballers for Vietnam Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games SEA Games medalists in football SEA Games gold medalists for Vietnam Vietnam men's international footballers Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games