Nguyễn Hai Long (born 27 August 2000) is a Vietnamese professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the Vietnamese national team.

Club career

Born in Quảng Ninh, Hai Long had always shown a passion for football from a young age and soon trained at Viettel Football Center. He and

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became national U-13 runners-up and U-15 champions before returning to train for Than Quảng Ninh in 2015. Five years later, he debuted in the V.League. In October 2021,

quickly recruited Hai Long from a disbanding Than Quảng Ninh on a 5-year contract.

International career

Youth

In 2020,

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called Hai Long up to the Vietnam U22 squad.

Senior

In May 2021, Hai Long received his first call up to the Vietnam national team. He made his international debut in a friendly game against

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on 1 June 2021. In December 2023, Hai Long was named in Vietnam's preliminary squad for the

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and was later included in the final 26-men squad but didn't make a single appearance in the tournament. On 9 December 2024, Hai Long scored his first international goal during the

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against

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. During the 2024 ASEAN Championship finals 2nd leg, Hai Long scored the last goal of the tournament – an

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against

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Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Vietnam's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hai Long goal.''

Honours

Hà Nội *

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 ...

ASEAN All-Stars *

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2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

Vietnam U23 *

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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 ...

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 ...

Individual *

All-Star XI:

References

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