Nguyễn Hữu Thắng (footballer, born 1972)

Nguyễn Hữu Thắng (born July 1972 in Vinh, Vietnam) is a retired Vietnamese football player, who used to play and manage Sông Lam Nghệ An in Vinh. He is now the current coach of the Vietnamese national team.
He was a member and captain of the Vietnam national football team in his playing days. He went to Sông Lam Nghệ An in 2005.

Early life

Hữu Thắng was born July 1972 in Vinh, Nghệ An but his origin is in Đức Thọ, Hà Tĩnh. His family moved from Đức Thọ to live in Vinh. His parent worked at Nghệ An Print Company (his mother died).

Thanks to the talent and enthusiasm, he attended football talent in Sông Lam Nghệ An early (high school, in the 1980s). At that time, Sông Lam Nghệ An is not known, until 1989 when the National A1 Group B championship, is exceptional to rank teams. Because of his poor family and because of our passion for round ball, his academic results not very prominent.

Club career

Sông Lam Nghệ An

Hữu Thắng played for Sông Lam Nghệ An as a player. He retired from being a footballer in 2005.

International career

He had capped Vietnam national football team to attend the regional tournament as the 1996 Tiger Cup, 1998 Tiger Cup, 2000 Tiger Cup, the football tournament at 1995 SEA Games, 1997 SEA Games.

Even he has been played for national team at the qualification of FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup.

Manager

Hữu Thắng served as manager for several clubs before being appointed as manager of Sông Lam Nghệ An in 2010. Sông Lam Nghệ won the National Cup in 2010 and the V-League and the Super Cup in 2011 under his guidance.

In February 2016, it was announced that Hữu Thắng will be the new manager of the Vietnam national team. On the 4 March 2016 he signed a new contract for two-years.

Honors

Club

Sông Lam Nghệ An

• Super Cup:2011 (manager)
• National Cup:2010 (manager)
• V-League: 2000 (footballer), 2011 (manager)

• SLNA vô địch V-League 2011