Viet Nguyen

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Viet Nguyen
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-08-06) August 6, 1975 (age 48)
Place of birth Dallas, Texas, United States
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Position(s) Forward
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1994–1998 Washington Huskies
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1999–2004 Seattle Sounders 153 (14)
2011 Tacoma Stars (indoor) 7 (2)
International career
1994 United States U20
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Viet Nguyen is a retired American soccer player who spent his entire professional career with the Seattle Sounders in the USL First Division. As of January 2019, Nguyen is the youth director for Pacific Northwest Soccer Club. [1]

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Club career

Nguyen was born in Dallas, Texas from Vietnamese parents. [2] He attended the University of Washington, playing on the men's soccer team in 1994 and 1995 and again in 1997 and 1998. He played sixty-nine games, scoring fifteen goals and adding eleven assists, during his four-year collegiate career. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology. In 1999, the Seattle Sounders selected Nguyen in the territorial round of the A-League draft. [3] Nguyen spent six seasons with the Sounders before retiring and entering the coaching ranks.

In 2011, he came out of retirement to play for the Tacoma Stars of the Professional Arena Soccer League. [4]

International career

In 1994, Nguyen played for the United States national under-20 team in the CONCACAF U-20 Tournament. The United States got eliminated in the group phase and failed to qualify for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.

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References

  1. ↑ "Club directors". PacificNorthwestSoccerClub.org. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "Thêm một cầu thủ nước ngoài muốn về khoác áo đội tuyển Việt Nam" (in Vietnamese). Cục Thể dục Thể thao. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  3. ↑ "United Soccer Leagues (USL)". Usl1.uslsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Tacoma Stars sign USL Sounder Nguyen and former Blackpooler Nowland". GoalWA.net. October 26, 2011. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
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