Kyaw Zin Lwin

Kyaw Zin Lwin (born 4 January 1993) is a Burmese professional footballer who plays as a defender for Myanmar club Ayeyawady United.

Kyaw Zin Lwin

Personal information
Date of birth	(1993-01-04) 4 January 1993
Place of birth	Pyuntaza, Bago, Myanmar
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position(s)	Right-back
Club information
Current team	Ayeyawady United
Number	12
Youth career
2011	Magwe Youth Team
2012	Mawyawadi Youth Team (Loan)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2014–2018	Magway	101	(?)
2019–	Ayeyawady United	14	(0)
National team^‡
2015	Myanmar U23	6	(2)
2016–	Myanmar	19[1][2]	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 April 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 November 2019

Early life

Kyaw Zin Lwin was born on 4 January 1993[3] in Pyuntasa, Nyaunglebin Township, Bago District, Bago Region, Myanmar.

Magway FC

When he was in junior team in 2011, he trained under the guidance of U Chit Naing whom he described as his first teacher in football. But he had to start his career as a ball boy and there was no playmates for him at that time. The son of the cook of Magway FC helped him in training. Ye Win Aung and Zaw Min Htun, both of whom called him little brother, encouraged him a lot and guided him at that time. They became his icons as they were hardworking footballers who spent much of their free time for training. After being allowed to play a year in junior team, he was considered not qualified to be in senior team and sent on loan to Mawyawadi FC. He became a line up player at that team and played about 13 games . At first he was paid 50,000 kyats per month. Later when he played in senior team, he asked for 1.5 lakh per month, and then 1 lakh per month as salary but the club offered him 80,000 kyats per month. Hein Zar Aung told him to come back to Magway FC. When he came back, Magway FC offered him to play as a senior team player but he denied and chose to stay in junior team where he played 21 games against many clubs except against Kambawza FC. After that, according to his in friendly against other teams and U Kyi Lwin's support, he signed his contract as a senior team player. He won 2016 General Aung San Shield with Magway FC on 17 August 2016.[4][5] Currently, he is playing as a defender in Magway FC.

Myanmar national team

At youth level

At first he was selected for Myanmar's Under-23 squad but not as a first line-up player. During 28th Seagames in Singapore, in match against Indonesia,[6] he came on as a substitute in the 65th minute and scored a goal.[7] Since then, he became a line-up player in matches against Singapore,[8] Philippines,[9] Cambodia,[10] Vietnam, and Thailand.[11] He won silver medal with Myanmar national team in 28th Seagames. His goal in match against Philippines was selected as one of the Top 10 goals in 28th Seagames.[12]

Outside football

Personal life

He left school when he were in the 8th Standard. Before he started his soccer career, he worked as an assistant for masons to get 2,000 kyats per day to help his mother who was a pedlar with many young children. When he was paid 50,000 kyats per month he send 40,000 kyats to his family.[13][14]

Kyaw Zin Lwin is in a relationship with Pann Nu.

Charity

He involved in charitable efforts in his hometown Pyuntasa.

Honors and achievements

Club

2016 General Aung San Shield

International

Silver medal 28th Seagames

References

1. Kyaw Zin Lwin at National-Football-Teams.com
2. Kyaw Zin Lwin at Soccerway
3. "Kyaw Zin Lwin". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
4. Phyo, Wai (18 August 2016). "GENERAL AUNG SAN SHIELD 2016 ခ်န္ပီယံဆုကို မေကြးအသင္း ပထမဆံုး အႀကိမ္ဆြတ္ခူး" [Magway FC won GENERAL AUNG SAN SHIELD for the first time]. Myanmar Media 7. Yangon. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
5. Hlaing, Kyaw Zin (18 August 2016). "Aung San Shield comes home to Magwe". MM times. Yangon. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
6. Football: Myanmar vs Indonesia 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 2 Jun 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
7. Lwin, Kyaw Zin (2 July 2015). "ျမန္မာယူ(၂၃) ေဘာလံုးအသင္းရဲ႕ ေနာက္တန္းကစားသမားေလး ေက်ာ္ဇင္လြင္". MCN Youth Programme (Interview). Interviewed by Hein Ko. MCN TV NEWS CHANNEL. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
8. Football: Singapore vs Myanmar 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 4 Jun 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
9. Football Philippines vs Myanmar (Jalan Besar stadium) 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 7 Jun 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
10. Football: Myanmar vs Cambodia 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 10 Jun 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
11. Football Final Thailand vs Myanmar 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
12. "Top 10 Goals Football Men - 28th SEA Games SINGAPORE 2015". WRITTENEPISODES.COM. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
13. "ေက်ာ္ဇင္လြင္ နဲ႕ၾကမ္းတမ္းလြန္းေသာ ေန႕ရက္ေတြ" [Kyaw Zin Lwin and Tough Times]. footballnewsmyanmar.blogspot.com. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
14. "Kyaw Zin Lwin - Myanmar U23 Footballer Tell About His Life on Facebook after successful campaign in Sea Games 2015 Singapore". PAPAWADY. Retrieved 27 November 2016.

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