Hồ Văn Lợi (born 5 April 1970) is a Vietnamese
football
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manager and former footballer. Trần spent his entire playing career with Vietnamese side
TPHCM worked as manager after retiring from professional football.
Career
At the age of 17, Lợi joined the
Ho Chi Minh City football academy and was eliminated right from the "parking lot" because of his low physical. However, he was asking to join the club as a
janitor
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and then get accepted.
Lợi finally joined
Ho Chi Minh City FC
Ho Chi Minh City Football Club (HCMC FC, ), simply known as TP Hồ Chí Minh, and commonly known as TPHCM, is a professional football club based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The club competes in the V.League 1, the highest level of Vietnamese ...
after called up by coach
Phạm Huỳnh Tam Lang and made his debut in the
1991 season.
In the
2001-02 season, he was the top scorer with 9 goals, became the first Vietnamese top goalscorer in
V.League.
On 11 May 2006, Lợi and
Huỳnh Hồng Sơn were temporarily detained in Hanoi and received a decision to prosecute them for bribery in the
2000-01 season Sông Lam Nghệ An case.
At the end of 2009, Văn Lợi retired at the age of 39.
References
1970 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Ho Chi Minh City FC players
Vietnamese men's footballers
Sportspeople from Huế
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