19-year-old won the Golden Ball, helping Vietnam beat Korea for the first time, but recklessly holding 20 million to participate in the sale, what is the “prodigy” of Nghe Van Quyen now?
The “prodigy” of Nghe and the chance to come to football
Pham Van Quyen, originally from Nghe An, from the moment he was born, he did not know his father’s face. Growing up in the arms of his mother and grandparents, Van Quyen still receives full love. However, because life was too difficult, he soon had to follow his mother to the field to help her with buffalo herding, cutting grass, and meals in childhood were sometimes hungry and full.
At that time, the joy of a round ball both helped Van Quyen play with friends near his house and was a life-changing opportunity that he did not know. In 1996, he was accepted into the amateur football class by Song Lam Nghe An football team. Initially, he was “targeted” at the full-back position, but coach Dinh Van Dung observed that this is a player with good technique but lazy to run, unable to kick the full-back, so he pushed it to the striker position.
In 1998, the SLNA team (Song Lam Nghe An) won the National Youth Football Championship with a crisp 4 – 0 victory over the team from Khanh Hoa province. That season, Van Quyen scored 7 goals, only 1 goal behind the top scorer. In 1999, at the national U16 football tournament, SLNA won a silver medal and Van Quyen “carried” the title of the best player of the tournament.
Therefore, in 2000, he was called up to the national U16 team. At the final round of the U16 Asia Championship held in Da Nang that year, the Vietnamese team ranked 4th and Van Quyen was voted the best player in the tournament, even considered one of the young football talents. Asia’s most promising.
However, there have been 3 foreign coaches who directly eliminated Van Quyen because they thought that this player was undisciplined and had a star disease. In 2002, he was called up by coach Henrique Calisto for the Tiger Cup with the following results: winning bronze for the whole team.
In 2003, the name Van Quyen continued to shine in the V.League. And the most brilliant achievement, not to mention the goal of his life on October 19, 2003 helped Vietnam beat South Korea 1-0 in the 2004 Asian Cup qualifiers.
Thanks to his outstanding performance in the 22nd SEA Games, the Nghe “prodigy” won the Vietnam Golden Ball title in 2003 when he was only 19 years old and became the youngest player to win the Golden Ball title at that time. . Therefore, fans put more and more hope on Van Quyen in the 23rd SEA Games sports event held in the Philippines.
However, in December 2005, with the scandal related to receiving money to change the result of the match against Myanmar of the U23 Vietnam football team in the group stage of the 23rd SEA Games, Pham Van Quyen was arrested and arrested. prosecute.
On January 26, 2007, the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City sentenced this player to 2 years in prison, but suspended the sentence; VFF alone has decided to suspend this player from all tournaments organized by the Federation for 4 years (from March 20, 2007).
Unforgettable bass notes
Follow Police, a leader of Song Lam Nghe An club said that Van Quyen was extremely impulsive when he agreed to participate in the match. Even later, when told later, he did not know the details of the incident, but only nodded because many people also … nodded in agreement like me. He also thinks that playing football will definitely win, holding a little more money to have fun, it doesn’t matter even though he was warned in advance.
Previously, Van Quyen received a contract of VND 240 million within 2 years, but just before signing, he received information that he only received VND 180 million without knowing why. Therefore, he flatly refused, the contract was cancelled.
However, the amount of money to fix the match results was only 20 million VND. When the police came to search the house, the money was still in his wardrobe. Van Quyen had to pay a heavy price, more than that, his grandfather – who raised him from a young age – passed away during his detention. His mother even took the car to Hanoi with the wish that her son light an incense stick for his grandfather, but it did not work.
All his life he only knew about football, so that low note made him wake up and rearrange his life. Van Quyen has a cousin who also follows a football career, Ho Tuan Tai.
Once, when he was having fun with friends, suddenly heard that his cousin’s father had passed away, Van Quyen rushed back to Nghe An but couldn’t make it in time. When standing in front of the altar of the deceased, he made a promise to himself that he would guide his junior to success and never go down the same path.
Stumbling, changing and new life
After continuing to play in SLNA’s shirt with a 2-year contract, Van Quyen was asked by this club to reduce his sentence. On January 23, 2009, VFF officially decided to allow him to compete in tournaments organized by the Federation (except for international tournaments) and be challenged until the end of 2009. V-League 2013 season He joined the Ninh Binh football team and won a number of achievements. At the end of 2014, Van Quyen officially retired.
It is known that after retiring, Van Quyen graduated with a C-class head coach degree and was assigned to coach Song Lam Nghe An’s youth teams. After that, he was an effective assistant for teammate Phan Nhu Thuat in the U15 team, or helped senior Le Ky Phuong in the U17 team, contributing to winning the national championship for 2 consecutive years in 2019, 2020.
According to Dan Viet, in March 2021, U21 Dong Thap successfully recruited Van Quyen as head coach after he helped U17 SLNA win the National Championship for 3 consecutive years. After stumbling blocks in her career, Quyen Fat used her mind to bring young talents to their dreams.
Regarding his personal life, in 2014, he officially married his wife Nguyen Thanh Hang after 3 years of dating. The couple currently has 2 daughters. Outside of work, Van Quyen spends a lot of her time taking care of her home, making up for the wounds from her childhood for her children.
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