Quế Ngọc Hải (born 15 May 1993) is a Vietnamese professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Becamex Bình Dương and is the

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of Vietnam national team. He is considered one of the best defenders in

history. Ngọc Hải represented Vietnam at under-19 and under-23 level before making his full international debut in September 2014.

Club career

Trần Anh Khoa incident

In the 25th round of the 2015 V-League between

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and SHB Đà Nẵng, SHB Đà Nẵng midfielder Trần Anh Khoa was fouled by Quế Ngọc Hải of

. Hải two-footed Khoa, hitting him in the knee. Khoa was unable to continue playing and was taken off the field on a stretcher. Khoa's injury was diagnosed as very serious and he had to travel to

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for surgery. Doctors estimated that he would need to rest for one year and had only a 50% chance of returning to the field. After the match, Hải was penalized by the VFF: he was banned from playing for six months and was ordered to pay for all of Khoa's medical expenses. The amount that Hải had to pay Khoa was around 800 million đồng. On December 17, 2015, after SHB Đà Nẵng provided detailed costs of Anh Khoa's surgery, travel, medicine, etc., totaling 834 million đồng, Quế Ngọc Hải and a representative of Sông Lam Nghệ An handed over the money in cash to Anh Khoa. Of the above money, 400 million đồng was donated by Đoàn Nguyên Đức (Bầu Đức), 70 million đồng came from donations from the

fan club, and the rest was provided by the sponsors of

. This foul effectively ended Trần Anh Khoa's professional football career.

International career

International goals

U-23

Vietnam

:''Scores and results list Vietnam's goal tally first.''

Personal life

Ngọc Hải was born in Diễn Châu District. At an early age, due to financial difficulties, he moved to

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, where his parents made a living as fruit sellers. Ngọc Hải and his older brother Ngọc Mạnh are very close and attended the Sông Lam Nghệ An football academy together. Ngọc Mạnh suffered a serious knee injury however, and with little money the family had to rely on Ngọc Hải to work hard and become professional, both to provide for his family and pay for his brothers surgery. After scoring the opening goal against Indonesia in the

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Ngọc Hải lifted his shirt to reveal a picture of Nguyễn Hữu Thắng to thank his former coach for the opportunities he gave him.

Honours

Club

Sông Lam Nghệ An *

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 ...

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Viettel *

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International

Vietnam *

AFF Championship The ASEAN Football Federation Championship (less formally the AFF Championship or AFF Cup), currently known as the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup for sponsorship reason, is the primary association football tournament organized by the ASEAN Football ...

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; runners-up:

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* AYA Bank Cup:

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* VFF Cup:

Individual

All-time XI: 2021 *

Best XI:

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Best XI: 2019

References

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* * 1993 births Living people Vietnamese men's footballers Vietnam men's international footballers Sportspeople from Nghệ An province Song Lam Nghe An FC players The Cong-Viettel FC players Becamex Binh Duong FC players V.League 1 players Men's association football defenders Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games 2019 AFC Asian Cup players SEA Games bronze medalists for Vietnam SEA Games medalists in football Competitors at the 2015 SEA Games Asian Games competitors for Vietnam Hoa people {{Vietnam-footy-bio-stub