Vietnamese footballer
Tô Văn Vũ (born 20 October 1993) is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a right winger or right-back for V.League 1 club Thép Xanh Nam Định.
Club career
Tô Văn Vũ was born in Quảng Xương District, Thanh Hóa.[1][2] After finishing high school, Tô Văn Vũ and his mother, Mrs. Cao Thị Tuyết, moving to Đồng Nai.[3][4][5]
At the age of 20, Văn Vũ was invited by a friend to try out for the U-21 Đồng Nai side due to a shortage of players for the Vietnamese U-21 Championship.[6] After a week of trial, he was signed by the ckub and officially began his football career at the age of 20.[7] In 2014, despite the difficulties faced by the Đồng Nai club following a match-fixing scandal involving several players, Tô Văn Vũ decided to stay and train with the youth team.[6]
The 2016 V.League 2 season was Văn Vũ's first professional season. He regularly started and scored 2 goals.[6] However, Đồng Nai failed to secure promotion after losing to Nam Định in the promotion play-off game.
After the dissolution of Đồng Nai, Tô Văn Vũ followed coach Trần Bình Sự to Becamex Bình Dương.[8] There, he played in V.League 1. At the end of the 2022 season, Tô Văn Vũ announced his departure from Becamex Bình Dương after six years with the club.[9] During his time at the club, he made a total of 106 appearances and scored 8 goals in the V.League 1.
On 4 January 2023, Công An Hà Nội announced that they had successfully recruited player Tô Văn Vũ.[10][11][12][13] By 9 October, 2023, Thép Xanh Nam Định announced that they had signed a three-season contract with Văn Vũ,[14] starting from the second phase of the 2023 V.League 1, during which he previously played on loan.
International career
In February 2022, coach Park Hang-seo called up Văn Vũ to the Vietnam national team to prepare for the match against China in the third round of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.[15][16]
Honours
- Becamex Bình Dương
- Công An Hà Nội
- Thép Xanh Nam Định
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