Nguyễn Đức Phú (born 13 January 2003) is a Vietnamese professional

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who plays as a defensive midfielder for

V.League 2 V.League 2 or Vietnamese National Football First League, ( vi, Giải Bóng đá Hạng Nhất Quốc Gia Việt Nam), also called LS V.League 2 for sponsorship reasons, is the second tier professional association football league in Vietnam c ...

club PVF-CAND and the Vietnam national under-23 team.

Early career

Born in

Hải Phòng Haiphong ( vi, Hải Phòng, ), or Hải Phòng, is a major industrial city and the third-largest in Vietnam. Hai Phong is also the center of technology, economy, culture, medicine, education, science and trade in the Red River delta. Haiphong wa ...

, Đức Phú started playing football in 2016 for his local youth team. In 2019, he was admitted to

PVF Football Academy The Promotion Fund of Vietnamese Football Talent Football Academy ( vi, Trung tâm đào tạo bóng đá trẻ PVF), simply known as the PVF Football Academy, is a football academy based in Hưng Yên. By 2020, PVF has been recognized by the Asian ...

. He quickly gained a starter spot at PVF youth team and won two consecutive

Vietnamese National U-19 Football Championship The Vietnamese National U19 Football Championship ( vi, Giải bóng đá U19 Quốc gia) is the national championship of association football for male players under the age of 19 organized by the Vietnam Football Federation The Vietnam Footbal ...

s in 2020 and 2021.

Club career

In 2022, Đức Phú was promoted to PVF Football Academy's first team Phố Hiến. In his first season with the club, Đức Phú started in 18 out of 22 matches in

and scored 1 goal, helping the club finish third in the league.

International career

Đức Phú was called up to Vietnam national under-20 team to participate in the 2023 AFC U-20 Championship. He started in all three group stage matches but Vietnam failed to reach the quarter-finals despite having won two out of their three matches. Later in the same year, he was included on Vietnam under-22's 20 men squad for the

2023 Southeast Asian Games The 2023 Southeast Asian Games ( km, ការប្រកួតកីឡាប្រជាជាតិអាស៊ីអាគ្នេយ៍២០២៣), commonly known as the 32nd Southeast Asian Games, or the 32nd SEA Games, and commonly know ...

. In June 2023, Đức Phú was called up to the

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senior squad for the first time, for friendly game against

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

in Nam Định.

Honours

PVF Football Academy *

: 2020, 2021 PVF-CAND *

runner-up:

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Vietnamese National Cup Vietnamese National Football Cup ( vi, Giải Bóng đá Cúp Quốc Gia Việt Nam), now officially recognized as the BaF Meat National Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a Vietnamese football competition. It is one of the most important club compet ...

third place :

Vietnam U23 * SEA Games: Bronze medal:

References

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