Vũ Hồng Việt

Vũ Hồng Việt (born 16 March 1979) is a Vietnamese football manager and former footballer who is currently the head coach of Thép Xanh Nam Định.

Playing career

Hồng Việt started his football career in 1997 at Hà Nội FC (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 V.League 1 titles with the club in 2003 and 2004. He retired in 2009, with his lats club being Hòa Phát Hà Nội.

Coaching 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 2017 AFF U-15 Championship.

He coached V.League 1 side Quảng Nam from 2018 and 2020 before resigning in June 2020 after the club dropped into a relegated spot. Thereafter, he served as coach Park Hang-seo assistant at the Vietnam national team until August 2022, after accepting the offer to coach Thép Xanh Nam Định. There, he helped the club win the 2023–24 V.League 1, thus achieving also the first league title in his coaching career.

Honours

As player

Hoàng Anh Gia Lai

• V.League 1: 2003, 2004
• Vietnamese Super Cup: 2003, 2004

As manager

Vietnam U15

• AFF U-16 Championship: 2017

Vietnam U19

• International Thanh Niên Newspaper Cup: 2017, 2018

Thép Xanh Nam Định

• V.League 1: 2023–24

References