Vũ Hồng Việt (born 16 March 1979) is a Vietnamese

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manager and former footballer who is currently the head coach of

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club Thép Xanh Nam Định.

Playing career

Hồng Việt started his football career in 1997 at

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(who later become Hà Nội ACB). The peal of his playing career was between 2003 and 2004, while he played for Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and managed to win two

titles with the club in 2003 and 2004. He retired in 2009, with his lats club being Hòa Phát Hà Nội.

Managerial career

After his retirement, Hồng Việt started his coaching career at Hà Nội reserves and youth side in 2011, where he remained for 8 years. As a manager, his "philosophy is to play small possession, short and attacking". From 2017 to 2018, he took charge of Vietnam's under-15s and under-19s and won the

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. He coached

side Quảng Nam from 2018 and 2020 before resigning in June 2020 after the club dropped into a relegated spot. Thereafter, he served as assistant under

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with the Vietnam national team until August 2022, after accepting the offer to coach

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. There, he helped the club win back-to-back league title, the 2023–24 V.League 1, thus achieving also the first league title in his coaching career and the following season, the

2024–25 V.League 1 The 2024–25 V.League 1, known as the 2024–25 LPBank V.League 1 () for sponsorship reasons, was the 42nd season of the V.League 1, the highest division of Vietnamese football and the 25th as a professional league. The season began on 14 Sept ...

title.

Honours

As player

Hoàng Anh Gia Lai *

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

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: 2003, 2004

As manager

Vietnam U15 * AFF U-16 Championship:

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Vietnam U19 * International Thanh Niên Newspaper Cup:

, 2018 Thép Xanh Nam Định *

: 2023–24, 2024–25

References

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