Filip Nguyen has played for the Hanoi Police Club (CAHN) since the second phase of the 2023 V-League season. In the second half of the previous season and the first phase of the current season, this goalkeeper was registered as an overseas Vietnamese.
Currently, CAHN Club has submitted an application for Vietnamese citizenship for goalkeeper Filip Nguyen. If this application is approved, Filip Nguyen will become a domestic player in the V-League. At that time, this goalkeeper's performance for the reigning V-League champion team will be more favorable.
Goalkeeper Filip Nguyen is waiting to be granted Vietnamese citizenship (Photo: Manh Quan).
In addition, if Filip Nguyen has Vietnamese nationality, he will be eligible to wear the Vietnamese national team jersey to participate in the World Cup qualifiers, Asian Cup as well as other international tournaments.
Previously, this goalkeeper was called up to the Czech Republic national team a few times, but he has never played a single minute for the Eastern European team. According to FIFA regulations, a player who has not played for the national team or the U23 team of another country can play for the national team of the country of his nationality.
Currently, Filip Nguyen is eager to be granted Vietnamese citizenship and play for coach Philippe Troussier's team.
On the side of Coach Troussier, if there is an addition of goalkeeper Filip Nguyen to the Vietnam team, this will be a very valuable addition. Filip Nguyen is a goalkeeper of European class, good physique (1m92), and plays very consistently.
In addition, this goalkeeper is good at catching the ball with his hands and launching attacks with his feet, in the style of modern goalkeepers.
Filip Nguyen is a goalkeeper with high professional skills (Photo: Manh Quan).
It is expected that on November 6, the Vietnamese team will gather to prepare for the second qualifying round of the 2026 World Cup in Asia, against the Philippines on November 16 and Iraq on November 21.
If Filip Nguyen has time to obtain citizenship before the above dates, he will be able to participate in the first matches of the Vietnamese team in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
In case Filip Nguyen does not have time to obtain Vietnamese citizenship, he will continue to wait until the 2023 Asian Cup (taking place from January 12, 2024 to February 10, 2024, in Qatar), or wait for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers to return in March 2024.
Filip Nguyen is 31 years old this year. He was born in Slovakia (formerly Slovakia and the Czech Republic were one country, called Czechoslovakia), with a Vietnamese father.
Filip Nguyen grew up in Czech youth football, playing professionally for several Czech clubs such as Sparta Praha (from 2013 to 2015), Slovan Liberec (2018 to 2022), FC Slovacko (2022 to 2023), before returning to Vietnam to play for CAHN Club from June 2023.
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