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Phạm Hải Yến
Vietnamese association football player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Phạm Hải Yến (born 9 November 1994) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a forward and serves as captain for Hanoi I FC and plays as a forward in the Vietnam women's national team.
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She was born in Hà Tây, a former province in northern Vietnam. After Hà Tây was merged into Hanoi, she joined and progressed through the youth academy of Hà Nội Club. With Hà Nội's U19 side, Hải Yến won the national U19 championship twice. She then graduated to the senior team, where she has claimed three national league titles and finished runner-up in the National Cup once. Individually, she was top scorer in the National Championship three times and top scorer in the National Cup once. In recognition of her achievements, she was appointed club captain ahead of the 2019 season.
Internationally, Hải Yến helped Vietnam's U16 team to third place at the 2009 AFF U-16 Youth Championship. She was spotted and called up to the senior national team by coach Trần Vân Phát in 2011, making her debut in the qualifiers for the 2012 London Olympics at just 17. She has since completed the full set of regional honours, winning one AFF Women's Championship and two SEA Games gold medals. Fans particularly remember her thunderous header against Thailand in the 2019 SEA Games final, which secured Vietnam's sixth-ever women's football gold in SEA Games history.
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Personal life
She was born on November 9, 1994, in Nghiem Xa Village, Nghiem Xuyen Commune, Thuong Tin District of the former Ha Tay Province in northern Vietnam. Nghiem Xa was once a renowned scholarly village in the Thuong Tin prefecture of the Son Nam administrative region, having produced seven Confucian doctorate laureates during the feudal era,[4] Today it sits on the outskirts of Hanoi, about 30 km south of the city center.[5]
Nghiem Xuyen Commune is a low-lying floodplain along the lower Nhuệ River and marks the intersection of Thuong Tin, Thanh Oai, and Phu Xuyen districts. Hai Yen comes from a hardworking farming family with no prior involvement in professional football. Her father is Pham Van Muoi and her mother Pham Thi Phuong, and she has one younger brother.[5][6]
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Club career
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Phạm Hải Yến was born and raised in Hà Tây, a province with a strong women's football movement, which helped nurture her early passion for the sport. In her village of Nghiêm Xá, there was a local women's football team coached by teacher Dương Khắc Kiểm. Thanks to this, Hải Yến had daily opportunities to train under his guidance alongside older teammates.
In eighth grade, the young girl from Nghiêm Xá was accepted into the youth team of Hà Tây's women's club. She then moved to Hà Đông to train and pursue professional football. That youth cohort also included another future national team player, defender Hoàng Thị Loan from Thanh Oai district.
After Hà Tây was merged into Hanoi, Hải Yến continued her training with Hanoi's youth team and helped the U19 side win back-to-back national championships in 2012 and 2013.[7] At the 2013 national U19 championship, she matched Tuyết Dung's 2011 feat by not only winning the trophy but also earning a double individual honor: Best Player and Top Scorer, with 7 goals.
Hanoi
2011–2014: First championships
Starting in the 2011 season, Phạm Hải Yến was promoted to the first team of Hanoi Trang An 1 (now known as Hanoi) to compete in the National Championship. Wearing the number 19 shirt under coach Giả Quảng Thác (假廣搨), and won her first national title in her debut season, although she didn't yet contribute significantly to the team's success.
In the 2012 season, she scored her first goal in the national championship during Round 6 in a match against city rivals Hanoi II.[8] Then in Round 10, she netted a dramatic 88th-minute winner to secure a 3–2 victory over hosts Phong Phú Hà Nam, in front of an astonishing crowd of 12,000 ,an extremely rare turnout for a women's league match. That goal was pivotal, pushing Hanoi I past Hà Nam into second place and ending the season as runners-up.[9]
In the 2013 season, Hải Yến switched to jersey number 12,a number that would become closely associated with her career. In the opening match against Hanoi II, she scored the team's first goal of the season, helping Hanoi I get off to a strong start.[10] She later added another goal in the return fixture, sealing a 2–0 victory. At season's end, she celebrated her second national championship, marking Hanoi I's ninth overall title.
The 2014 season saw Hải Yến take further strides, scoring 4 goals, just two behind top scorer Nguyễn Thị Muôn and playing a key role in Hanoi I's 10th national championship. At age 20, she was seen as a worthy successor to Hanoi I's strikers like Minh Nguyệt, Nguyễn Thị Muôn, and Nguyễn Thị Hòa.
2015–2016
In the 2015 season, Hải Yến showcased significant progress and claimed the league's top scorer title with 10 goals.[11] Despite her success, Hanoi lost the championship to Ho Chi Minh City, trailing by a single point in a thrilling title race that came down to the wire. One of the most dramatic moments was the 2–2 draw between the two teams in the final round: Hanoi I led from the first half until the last 15 minutes, when HCMC struck twice in six minutes to flip the score. Nguyễn Thị Xuyến then reignited Hanoi's hopes with a stoppage-time equalizer in the 91st minute. The final three minutes of added time were tense, with Hanoi I desperately pushing for a winner.
Thanks to her impressive performance in 2015, Hải Yến was nominated for the Vietnam Golden Ball awards. It was her first time appearing on the preliminary shortlist of ten female footballers and also one of three finalists for Best Young Female Player, as announced by the Sài Gòn Giải Phóng newspaper.
In 2016, Hải Yến maintained steady form, helping Hanoi I finish at the top of the standings with a 14-match unbeaten run across two rounds. Based on the rules of previous seasons, this record should have secured Hanoi I their 11th championship. However, starting that year, the organizers introduced a knockout round for the top four teams to decide the champion, adding unpredictability to the season's outcome.
In the semifinals against Than Khoáng Sản Việt Nam (Vietnam Coal and Minerals), Hải Yến delivered a dazzling performance, netting two goals in the first 11 minutes to help Hanoi I cruise into the final.[12] However, in the final against their long-standing rival, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi had their only defeat of the season, conceding twice in the first half.the loss left Hanoi bitterly disappointed once again at the hands of coach Kim Chi and captain Kiều Trinh's squad.[13]
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International career
On 20 October 2011, she scored her first hat-trick against Indonesia at the 2011 AFF Women's Championship.
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.Scores and results are list Vietnam's goal tally first
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