Cong An Ho Chi Minh City FC (), also known Ho Chi Minh City Police, were a

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ese

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club based in

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. They were champions in the 1995 season of the V-League, Vietnam's top-level association football league. They placed as runners-up in the 1993–94,

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

, 1999–2000, and 2001–02 seasons.Lịch sử Vleague ''(V-League History)''
. V-League. 2010. Star striker

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, who later went on to lead

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to win the

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championship as manager, played for the club from 1992 through 2000.Le Huynh Duc – the young talented manager
. Vietnamese Ministry of Culture and Information. August 14, 2009. In 1998, the team played a nationally televised

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against the semi-professional San Francisco Bay Seals, winning 3–1. The match marked the first time an American professional soccer team had played in post-war Vietnam.U.S. Semipro Soccer Team Visits Vietnam
.

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. February 15, 1998.

Achievements

National competitions

;League *

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**Champions (1):

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

**Runners-up (4): 1993–94,

, 1999–2000, 2001–02 ;Cup *

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**Winners (2): 1998, 2001 **Runners-up (1): 2000 *

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**Runners-up (2): 1999, 2001

References

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