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
The V.League 1 ( vi, Giải bóng đá vô địch quốc gia, lit=National Football League), also called Night Wolf V.League 1 due to sponsorship reasons, is the top professional football league in Vietnam, controlled by the Vietnam Professio ...
Pleiku
Pleiku is a city in central Vietnam, located in the Central Highlands region. It is the capital of the Gia Lai Province. Many years ago, it was inhabited primarily by the Bahnar and Jarai ethnic groups, sometimes known as the Montagnards or De ...
, Gia Lai Province. The academy was a built as co-operation between
Arsenal Football Club
Arsenal Football Club, commonly referred to as Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England. Arsenal plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The club has won 13 league titles (incl ...
,
JMG Academy
The JMG Academy is a sports organisation and training company established by French international football player Jean-Marc Guillou.
Overview
Guillou had established Académie de Sol Beni in Abidjan in 1994 via a partnership with ASEC Mimosa ...
V.League 1
The V.League 1 ( vi, Giải bóng đá vô địch quốc gia, lit=National Football League), also called Night Wolf V.League 1 due to sponsorship reasons, is the top professional football league in Vietnam, controlled by the Vietnam Professio ...
club Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL} succeeded in signing an agreement with the English football club Arsenal and the French
JMG Academy
The JMG Academy is a sports organisation and training company established by French international football player Jean-Marc Guillou.
Overview
Guillou had established Académie de Sol Beni in Abidjan in 1994 via a partnership with ASEC Mimosa ...
, founding the HAGL Academy – Arsenal JMG in
Pleiku
Pleiku is a city in central Vietnam, located in the Central Highlands region. It is the capital of the Gia Lai Province. Many years ago, it was inhabited primarily by the Bahnar and Jarai ethnic groups, sometimes known as the Montagnards or De ...
. Despite football is the number one sport in Vietnam, the country had few success in regional football tournaments, by with only one
AFF Championship
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title in
2008
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, as
Thailand
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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 Đoàn Nguyên Đức 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 Arsenal 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 Guillaume Graechen, 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 Tuấn Anh, Lương Xuân Trường, Nguyễn Văn Toàn and Vũ Văn Thanh 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 Arsenal 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.
Nguyễn Phong Hồng Duy
Nguyễn Phong Hồng Duy (, born 13 June 1996) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a left winger and left-back for V.League 1 club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and the Vietnam national team.
International career
International g ...
Nguyễn Tuấn Mạnh
Nguyễn Tuấn Mạnh (born 31 July 1990) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for V.League 1 club SHB Đà Nẵng and the Vietnam national football team.
Childhood
Nguyễn Tuấn Mạnh was born in Tinh Gia dis ...
Phan Thanh Hậu
Phan Thanh Hậu (born 12 January 1997) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a central midfielder for V.League 1 club Quảng Nam.
He is a product of the Hoang Anh Gia Lai – Arsenal JMG Academy, a joint football academy built by English c ...
Triệu Việt Hưng
Triệu Việt Hưng (born 19 January 1997) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a central midfielder for V.League 1 club Hải Phòng, on loan from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai.Vũ Văn Thanh