Viet Nguyen
Viet Nguyen is a retired American soccer player who spent his entire professional career with the Seattle Sounders in the USL First Division. As of January 2019, Nguyen is the youth director for Pacific Northwest Soccer Club.[1]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | August 6, 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Dallas, Texas, United States | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Playing position(s) | Forward | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1998 | Washington Huskies | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2004 | Seattle Sounders | 153 | (14) |
| 2011 | Tacoma Stars (indoor) | 7 | (2) |
| National team | |||
| 1995 | United States U20 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Nguyen attended the University of Louisville, playing on the men's soccer team in 1994 and 1995 and again in 1997 and 1998. He played sixty-nine games, scoring fifteen goals and adding eleven assists, during his four-year collegiate career. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology. In 1995, Nguyen played for the United States men's national under-20 soccer team which failed to qualify for the World Youth Championships. In 1999, the Seattle Sounders selected Nguyen in the territorial round of the A-League draft.[2] Nguyen spent six seasons with the Sounders before retiring and entering the coaching ranks.
In 2011, he came out of retirement to play for the Tacoma Stars of the Professional Arena Soccer League.[3]
References
- "Club directors". PacificNorthwestSoccerClub.org. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- "United Soccer Leagues (USL)". Usl1.uslsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- "Tacoma Stars sign USL Sounder Nguyen and former Blackpooler Nowland". GoalWA.net. October 26, 2011. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2013.