Nguyễn Hoàng Đức (born 11 January 1998) is a Vietnamese professional

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who plays as an

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for

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club Phù Đổng Ninh Bình and the Vietnam national team.

Early career

Hoàng Đức started playing football from the second grade for his school team. In 2008, a manager of the

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football academy in

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discovered him during a youth tournament and signed him to the academy. He integrated without much difficulties into the team and was formed to become a forward. Throughout the years in the academy, he was highly appreciated by the managers for his outstanding playing technique and his will to strive for excellence. He was regularly assigned by the managers to be the team captain during youth tournaments. In 2016, Hoàng Đức lead Viettel to the Vietnamese National U-19 Championship final before they lost against

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in the final and was named as the "Player of the tournament".

Club career

Viettel

In 2017, he was promoted to the first team squad, playing in the

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. With his impressive height, his unique skillful left-foot and his high workrate in the field, coach Nguyễn Hải Biên repositioned Hoàng Đức to play in different midfield positions. In 2018, Hoàng Đức started 17 of the 18 games in various positions, scoring 9 goals and providing 3 assists to help Viettel win the 2018 V.League 2, thus promoting to the

in 2019. He was also voted the player of the season. In 2020, Hoàng Đức was part of the Viettel squad that win the 2020 V.League 1, being a crucial starter. Later, he and Viettel failed to win the 2020 National Super Cup, after losing to

with a score of 0-1. In the

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, he played all 6 games and scored 1 goal as Viettel failed to advance to the next stage. In the

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season, as the key playmaker of Viettel, Hoàng Đức scored 5 goals and had 5 assists, helping Viettel finish third in the league. Therefore he was named as the league's Player of the Season.

Phù Đổng Ninh Bình

On 8 October 2024, with only 3 months in contract left with Thể Công-Viettel, Hoàng Đức was transferred to

side Phù Đổng Ninh Bình.

International career

In 2017, Hoàng Đức was called up to the Vietnam U-20 team to participate in the

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. He missed an open goal chance in the opening game against

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which ended in a goalless draw. Vietnam later lost in the remaining matches and was eliminated from the group stage. On 14 September 2019, he made his debut for Vietnam national team in the

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game against the

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, coming in as a substitute in the 81th minute. Later, when Vietnam reached the third round of the qualifiers, he established himself as an important starter in the team with his impressive capacities in both defending and attacking. On 12 December 2021, Hoàng Đức scored first goal for Vietnam in the 3–0 win against

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as part of the

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. In 2022, Hoàng Đức had won his first

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. In 2024, he was named in Vietnam's 26-men squad for the

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but was later removed from the squad to fully recover from his ankle injury.

Career statistics

International

International goals

U-23

:''Scores and results list Vietnam's goal tally first. Only results against national teams were counted''

Vietnam

:''Scores and results list Vietnam's goal tally first. Only results against national teams were counted''

Honours

Viettel *

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

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 ...

Phù Đổng Ninh Bình *

: 2024–25 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/Olympic *

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Individual *

Player of the Season:

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

* Vietnamese Bronze Ball:

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All-Star XI:

Player of the Season:

Team of the Season:

Orders *Third-class

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: 2025

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nguyen, Hoang Duc 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from Hải Dương province Vietnamese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders The Cong-Viettel FC players V.League 1 players V.League 2 players Vietnam men's international footballers SEA Games medalists in football Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games SEA Games gold medalists for Vietnam Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games 21st-century Vietnamese sportsmen