Filip Nguyen (born 14 September 1992), also spelled as Nguyễn Filip, is a professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Công An Hà Nội. Born in Czechoslovakia, he represents the Vietnam national team.

Club career

Filip played youth football with

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and

Sparta Prague Athletic Club Sparta Praha (), commonly known as Sparta Prague and Sparta Praha, is a professional football club based in Prague. It is the most successful club in the Czech Republic and one of the most successful in central Europe, winning t ...

, joining the latter in 2012. On 20 October 2013, Nguyen appeared in the Sparta first-team squad for the first-team, being an unused substitute for a

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home win over city rivals

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. He departed the club in 2015 to play for

SK Union Čelákovice SK Union Čelákovice is a football club located in Čelákovice, Czech Republic. It currently plays in the I.A třída skupina B, which is in the sixth tier of the Czech football system. The club reached the last 16 stage of the 1999–2000 Czec ...

. 2016 saw Nguyen complete a move to

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side

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. He made his professional debut for Vlašim v.

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on 26 March. Forty-two appearances followed across his first three seasons. In February 2018,

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completed the signing of Nguyen; signing until 2021. In the

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, Filip was the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets.

Công An Hà Nội

On 28 June 2023, Filip signed for

club Công An Hà Nội on a three-year contract. Filip made his league debut for the club on 2 July 2023, in a 0–1 loss against SHB Đà Nẵng at

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. His first season with the Police team ended in success, as they won the V.League 1 title. In 6 December 2023, Filip received approval to naturalize as a Vietnamese citizen.

International career

Filip is eligible to play for either the

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at international level. In July 2019, it was reported that Filip was in the process of becoming naturalized as a Vietnamese citizen, which would allow him to represent the country's

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for the succeeding 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. In September 2020, Filip received his first call-up to the Czech Republic national team for their

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match against

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on 7 September. Due to positive

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tests in the previous Czech squad, all players and the coaching staff which faced

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on 4 September had to be replaced. On 6 December 2023, Filip announced on his

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page that he had successfully completed his Vietnamese naturalization, thus making him eligible to play for

. On 25 December 2023, Filip was selected in Vietnam's 34-man provisional squad for the

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, and later made the final squad. He made his first senior international appearance against

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in a 1–2 friendly defeat on 9 January 2024 in preparation for the tournament. Filip played in all of Vietnam's three matches at the

finals.

Personal life

Filip was born in

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to a Vietnamese father and a Czech mother. His father is from

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. Filip married his long-term girlfriend Aneta Ngova in August 2021. She also is of Vietnamese and Czech descent. They have a son born in January 2021.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Slovácko *

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: 2021–22 Công An Hà Nội *

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

ASEAN Club Championship The ASEAN Club Championship or ACC, also known as the Shopee Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an international club football competition organised by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) between domestic champion clubs. The competition is backed by ...

runner-up: 2024–25 Vietnam *

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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nguyen, Filip 1992 births Living people Footballers from Prague Vietnamese men's footballers Vietnam men's international footballers Czech men's footballers Vietnamese people of Czech descent Czech people of Vietnamese descent Sportspeople of Vietnamese descent Men's association football goalkeepers Czech First League players Czech National Football League players V.League 1 players Cong An Hanoi FC players AC Sparta Prague players FC Sellier & Bellot Vlašim players FC Slovan Liberec players 1. FC Slovácko players Czech expatriate sportspeople in Vietnam 2023 AFC Asian Cup players 21st-century Czech sportsmen Naturalised association football players