Hoang Anh Gia Lai Academy ( vi, Trung tâm đào tạo bóng đá trẻ Hoàng Anh Gia Lai) is the youth section of V.League 1 side Hoàng Anh Lai Lai. Based in Pleiku, Gia Lai Province. The academy was a built as co-operation between Arsenal Football Club,

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and the Vietnamese privately owned Hoang Anh Gia Lai Corporation.

History

In 2007, V.League 1 club Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL} succeeded in signing an agreement with the English football club

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and the French

, founding the HAGL Academy – Arsenal JMG in Pleiku. Despite football is the number one sport in Vietnam, the country had few success in regional football tournaments, by with only one AFF Championship title in

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, as Thailand was still the dominating team in the region. The causes of low success rate of Vietnam's football team were caused by the lack of systematic training, which lead HAGL owner

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to open the academy in order to improve Vietnamese football talents. In August 2009, two players from the academy were sent to train with the

first team. Following JMG's curriculum, young players were trained from an early age to develop their ball controling skills and to adopt a modern playing style. The academy placed the technical criteria as the priority while selecting players during youth trials. Coached by French manager

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, the first generation of the HAGL Academy quickly enjoyed early success in 2013, as their players attracted media attention with good performances at youth tournaments. The number of HAGL players in Vietnamese national teams outnumbers other teams. Players such as

Nguyễn Công Phượng Nguyễn Công Phượng (born 21 January 1995) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a forward for J1 League club Yokohama FC and the Vietnam national team. Nguyễn Công Phuợng is lauded as "Vietnamese Messi" by fans and the ...

Nguyễn Tuấn Anh Nguyễn Tuấn Anh (born 16 May 1995) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and the Vietnam national team. Tuấn Anh is considered one of the most talented and technically gifted mid ...

Lương Xuân Trường Lương Xuân Trường (born 28 April 1995) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for V.League 1 club Hải Phòng and the Vietnam national team. Xuân Trường is a product of HAGL – Arsenal JMG Academy ...

, Nguyễn Văn Toàn and

Vũ Văn Thanh Vũ Văn Thanh (born 14 April 1996) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for V.League 1 club Công An Hà Nội and the Vietnam national team. Early career Vũ Văn Thanh was born in Thanh Miện district, Hải ...

rose to fame and were considered as the future of Vietnamese football. However as HAGL players integrate the professional football envirnoment, many of them often find it difficult to stay in the top level due to their limitations in physical level and strength. This is due to JMG's curriculum not focusing on improving body shape and physical strength, while that is still a weakness of Vietnamese players. From 30 June 2017, the entire cooperation between

and Hoang Anh Gia Lai ends. HAGL Academy – Arsenal JMG also changed its name to HAGL-JMG Academy. From mid-June 2021, HAGL decided to cease cooperating with JMG's standard training model, transferring all its 2001 to 2003 born players to the NutiFood JMG Academy, thus changing its name to the current HAGL Academy.

Notable players

The players in bold have capped for the Vietnam national team: *

A Hoàng A Hoàng (born 31 July 1995) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a defender for V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. A Hoàng came through the youth system at Hoang Anh Gia Lai before graduating to the first team in 2016. He has had loan sp ...

Bùi Văn Long Bùi Văn Long (born 10 October 1988) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a right-back for V.League 2 club Phố Hiến. Despite being handed the captaincy for most of the 2016 season and having more than a year left on his contract, in O ...

Châu Ngọc Quang Châu Ngọc Quang (born 1 February 1996) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a winger or a midfielder for V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and the Vietnam national team. Club Career Châu Ngọc Quang is a product of t ...

* Đinh Thanh Bình *

Dụng Quang Nho Dụng Quang Nho (born 1 January 2000) is a Vietnamese professional footballer of Cham ethnicity who plays as a midfielder for V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. International goals U-19 U-23 Honours Vietnam U-23 * AFF U-23 Championship: 2 ...

Hoàng Thanh Tùng Hoàng Thanh Tùng (born 19 November 1996) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a winger for V.League 2 club Phù Đổng. Honours Club Công An Nhân Dân *V.League 2: 2022 International Vietnam U19 * AFF U-19 Youth Championship : Runne ...

Hoàng Vĩnh Nguyên Hoàng Vĩnh Nguyên (born 3 February 2002) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a midfielder for V.League 1 club Hồ Chí Minh City. Early career At the age of 11, Vĩnh Nguyên joined the Hoang Anh Gia Lai – Arsenal JMG Academy after d ...

Lê Đức Lương Lê Đức Lương (born 18 August 1994) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a left-back for V.League 2 club Phù Đổng Honours Hồ Chí Minh City *Vietnamese Super Cup Vietnamese National Football Super Cup ( vi, Siêu cúp bóng đá ...

Lê Duy Thanh Lê Duy Thanh (born 19 December 1990) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a midfielder for V.League 1 club Khánh Hòa. Honours ;Khanh Hoa FC *V.League 2 runner-up: 2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction a ...

Lê Hoàng Thiên Lê Hoàng Thiên (born 25 December 1990) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for V.League 1 club Bình Định. Personal life Hoàng Thiên was born in Phú Thiện. On 27 May 2014 he was married to Dương Thị N ...

Lê Minh Bình Lê Minh Bình (born 25 December 1999) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a striker for V.League 2 club PVF-CAND, on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. Early career Born in Bình Phước, Minh Bình played for the youth team ...

* Lê Phạm Thành Long *

Lê Văn Sơn Lê Văn Sơn (born 20 December 1996) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a right back for V-League club Becamex Bình Dương, on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. International goals U-19 Honours Vietnam U19 * AFF U-19 Youth Championshi ...

* Lê Văn Trường * Lương Hoàng Nam *

Nguyễn Đức Việt Nguyễn Đức Việt (born 1 January 2004) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and the Vietnam national under-23 team. Club career Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Đức Vi ...

* Nguyễn Phong Hồng Duy * Nguyễn Quốc Việt *

Nguyễn Thái Quốc Cường Nguyễn Thái Quốc Cường (born 6 March 2004) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for V.League 2 club Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu. Early career Born in Nghệ An, Quốc Cường moved to Đồng Nai at an earl ...

Nguyễn Thanh Nhân Nguyễn Thanh Nhân (born 25 October 2000) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a left-back for V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and the Vietnam national team. Club career A graduate from Hoang Anh Gia Lai – Arsenal JMG ...

* Nguyễn Tuấn Mạnh * Nguyễn Văn Toàn *

Nguyễn Văn Triệu Nguyễn Văn Triệu (born 17 January 2003) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a centre back for V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. Club career Born in Bình Thuận, Văn Triệu played for the youth team of Bình Thu� ...

Phạm Văn Tiến Phạm Văn Tiến (born 30 April 1993) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for V.League 2 club Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu. Honours International Vietnam U23 : Third place : Southeast Asian Games: 2015 File:2015 Events Co ...

* Phan Thanh Hậu *

Phan Văn Long Phan Văn Long (born 1 June 1996) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a winger for V.League 1 club SHB Đà Nẵng SHB Da Nang Football Club (), simply known as SHB Da Nang, is a Vietnamese professional football club based in Da Nang tha ...

Trần Bảo Toàn Trần Bảo Toàn (born 14 July 2000) is a Vietnamese footballer who is a midfielder for V-League (Vietnam) club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and the Vietnam national under-23 football team. International career Vietnam U–19 In 2018, he was summone ...

Trần Hữu Đông Triều Trần Hữu Đông Triều (born 20 August 1995) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a centre back for V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai. Honours Becamex Bình Dương *Vietnamese Super Cup: Runner-up: 2019 Vietnam U19 *AFF U-19 Youth Cha ...

Trần Minh Vương Trần Minh Vương (born 28 March 1995) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and the Vietnam national team. Personal life When Minh Vương was young his father ...

* Trần Thanh Sơn * Trần Trung Kiên * Triệu Việt Hưng *

References

External links

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Pleiku - Vietnam - JMG Football
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