Y Êli Niê (born 8 January 2001) is a Vietnamese

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...

for

V.League 1 The V.League 1 (), also called LPBank V.League 1 for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional football league in Vietnam, controlled by the Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF). It is contested by 14 clubs who play each ...

club

Thanh Hóa Thanh Hóa () is the capital of Thanh Hóa Province. The city is situated in the east of the province on the Ma River (Sông Mã), about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of capital Hanoi and 1560 kilometers (969 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh Cit ...

and the Vietnam national under-23 team.

Early life

Y Êli Niê was born as the fifth child of seven. He is part of the Rade ethnic group, who assign surnames matrilineally (contrary to Vietnamese convention). Despite sharing a surname, he is not related to

H'Hen Niê H'Hen Niê ( ; born 15 May 1992) is a Vietnamese people, Vietnamese model and beauty pageant titleholder. After winning Miss Universe Vietnam 2017, she represented Vietnam at Miss Universe 2018, and reached the Top 5 finalist, the current best p ...

. He started playing football aged 10. He won the National U11 Championship with the Dak Lak U11 team.

Honours

Thanh Hóa *

Vietnamese Cup Vietnamese National Football Cup (), commonly recognized and branded as the National Cup (), is a Vietnamese football competition. It is one of the most important club competitions in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Cup was first held in 1992. Cảng S ...

: 2023–24 Vietnam U23 *

AFF U-23 Championship The ASEAN U-23 Championship (formerly AFF U-23 Championship) is an international football competition contested by the national under-23 teams of the member nations of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). The inaugural edition was held in 2005. ...

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 ...

References

External links

*
Y Eli Niê
at vpf.vn 2001 births Living people Rade people People from Đắk Lắk province Vietnamese men's footballers 21st-century Vietnamese sportsmen Men's association football goalkeepers Daklak FC players Hoang Anh Gia Lai FC players Thanh Hóa FC players V.League 2 players V.League 1 players Vietnam men's youth international footballers {{Vietnam-footy-bio-stub