Kyaw Min Oo

Kyaw Min Oo (Burmese: ကျော်မင်းဦး; born 16 June 1996) is a Burmese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Myanmar U-23 football team and Ayeyawady United. He has represented Myanmar at Under-17, Under-20, Under-23, and full international level. In 2015, Kyaw represented Myanmar at the FIFA U-20 World Cup.[2]

Kyaw Min Oo
Personal information
Full name Kyaw Min Oo
Date of birth (1996-05-16) 16 May 1996
Place of birth Oktwin, Myanmar
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position(s) Central midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Yangon United
Number 77
Youth career
2010 Yangon Sport College
2011–2013 Mandalay Football Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 Ayeyawady United 10 (2)
2016–2019 Yangon United
National team‡
2011 Myanmar U-16 4 (0)
2013–2015 Myanmar U-19[1] 12 (0)
2013–2019 Myanmar U-23 6 (0)
2014–2019 Myanmar 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 October 2014
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 May 2018

Biography

Kyaw Min Oo was born in Oktwin Township, Bago District. He studied in Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay) for about three years. In 2014, Ayeyawady United signed Kyaw Min Oo. Kyaw Min Oo played two years for Ayeyawady United and then he moved to Yangon United at the end of his contract. Kyaw Min Oo first appeared in national under-16 team that took part in 2011 AFF U-16 Youth Championship before gradually rising to all levels of national teams.[3] He is a playmaker with good passing, tackling, good vision. He played an important role in Myanmar under-20 national team for 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. He retired in early 2019, citing several injuries from 2016.[4] In May 2019, he healed his injuries by help of Zaw Zaw and returned to the club.[5]

Honours

References
  1. "AFC U-19 Championship results". AFC. 11 October 2014. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014.
  2. "Singin' in the rain". The Myanmar Times. 16 October 2015.
  3. "Kyaw Min Oo returns to action despite fine". The Myanmar Times. 19 October 2015.
  4. "Myanmar national team star retires at the age of 22". FOX Sports Asia. 14 January 2019.
  5. "ကွင်းလယ်ကစားသမား ကျော်မင်းဦးနှင့် ဇေယျာနိုင်တို့၏ ဒူးဒဏ်ရာခွဲစိတ်ကုသမှု အောင်မြင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 16 May 2019.
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