Trần Minh Vương (born 28 March 1995) is a Vietnamese professional

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who plays as an

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for

V.League 1 The V.League 1 (), also called LPBank V.League 1 for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional football league in Vietnam, controlled by the Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF). It is contested by 14 clubs who play each ...

club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. He was once one of the few young Vietnamese players highly appreciated for his tactical thinking as well as techniques, especially his long-range shooting and free-kick ability.

Career

Club career

Hoàng Anh Gia Lai

In 2007, Minh Vương came to Ham Rong to take the exam for HAGL – Arsenal JMG Academy. However, Vuong was only selected for the gifted class. In April 2013, coach Choi Yoon Gyum filled in the list of HAGL team competing in V.League, marking a new turning point in his career path. In V-League 2014, he received the title of best young player in the tournament. In March 2024, after Nguyễn Tuấn Anh left Hoàng Anh Gia Lai, Minh Vương became the captain of the club. After

2024–25 V.League 1 The 2024–25 V.League 1, known as the 2024–25 LPBank V.League 1 () for sponsorship reasons, was the 42nd season of the V.League 1, the highest division of Vietnamese football and the 25th as a professional league. The season began on 14 Sept ...

ended, Trần Minh Vương officially left Hoàng Anh Gia Lai after nearly 18 years with the club.

International career

Vietnam U-19

In 2013, Trần Minh Vương was called up to the Vietnam U19 reserve team, but did not participate in the U19 Southeast Asian Games. In April 2013, he was named by coach Choi Yoon Gyum to the Hoàng Anh Gia Lai for the V.League. In the 2014 V.League, he was named the best young player of the tournament In July 2014, Minh Vương was officially called back to the Vietnam U19 team.

Vietnam U-23

In December 2017, Minh Vương was called up to the Vietnam U23 team by coach

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. In July 2018, Minh Vương was named in the official list of 30 U23 Vietnam players to participate in the 2018 VinaPhone Cup. At the

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, due to defender Nguyen Thanh Chung's injury, Trần Minh Vương was called back to the Vietnam Olympic team by Park Hang Seo just before leaving for

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Vietnam

In 2017, Minh Vương was called up to the Vietnam national team for the first time to prepare for the match against the Afghanistan national team in the 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers. On 15 June 2021, in the match against the

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in the Second Round of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, Minh Vương came on in the last 30 minutes of the match and scored a goal and an assist.

Personal life

When Minh Vương was young his father drove him to the HAGL – Arsenal JMG Academy so he could continue to develop his football skills. Just 3 days later his father died, and Minh Vương didn't find out until a couple months after as his family had withheld the news from him. As a result, whenever Minh Vương scores he points to the sky in remembrance of his father.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

= Senior

= U-23 / Olympics

Honours

Hoang Anh Gia Lai

Vietnamese National Football Cup Vietnamese National Football Cup (), commonly recognized and branded as the National Cup (), is a Vietnamese football competition. It is one of the most important club competitions in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Cup was first held in 1992. Cảng S ...

: Third place

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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 ...

Vietnam

King's Cup King's Cup (incl. translations), may refer to: Sports Football * Copa del Rey, Spanish for "King's Cup," the main national knockout tournament in men's football * King's Cup (Bahrain), the premier national knockout football tournament * King's ...

: Runner-up

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 ...

Vietnam U23 *

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 ...

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 ...

Vietnam U19 *

AFF U-19 Youth Championship The ASEAN U-19 Boys' Championship (formerly AFF U-19 Youth Championship) is an annual international football competition contested by the national teams of the members of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) and occasionally invited nations fro ...

: Runner-up

Individuals

*Best Young Player of

: 2013, 2014 *V.League Best XI: 2019

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tran, Minh Vuong 1995 births Living people Vietnamese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders V.League 1 players Hoang Anh Gia Lai FC players Sportspeople from Thái Bình province Footballers at the 2018 Asian Games 2019 AFC Asian Cup players Asian Games footballers for Vietnam Vietnam men's international footballers 21st-century Vietnamese sportsmen