Đinh Thế Nam (born 30 April 1965) is a Vietnamese

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manager and former footballer who currently is the head director of the Hanoi FC youth academy.

Early life

He is a native of

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, Vietnam.

Career

He mainly operated as a midfielder and has been described as "plays skillfully, intelligently and is considered a "passing machine" for the strikers above". He had been a regular member of the Vietnam national team between 1985 and 1995. In January 2022, he was named as the caretaker manager of the Vietnam U23 team. He helped the team win the

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Personal life

He has been nicknamed "Nam 'chợ'".

Honours

Player

Thể Công * V.League:

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

Haiphong Police *

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: 1995

Manager

Vietnam U23 *

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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

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