Le Huynh Duc

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Personal information
Lê Huỳnh Đức
Full name	Lê Huỳnh Đức
Date of birth	April 20, 1972 (1972-04-20) (age 36)
Place of birth	Saigon, South Vietnam
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Da Nang FC
Number	10
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1999-2001 2001 2002-2003 2004-present	CA TPHCM Chongqing Lifan NHDA Da Nang FC	? (?) 4 (1) ? (?) ? (?)
National team²
	Vietnam	63 (30)
Teams managed
2007-	Da Nang FC
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 April 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 28 April 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Lê Huỳnh Đức (born April 20, 1972 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese footballer currently coaching Da Nang FC of the V-League. Đức is a former member of the Vietnam national football team, with whom he has over 60 caps (a national record) as well as its top scorer.

1 Clubs
2 Honours
- 2.1 Club:
- 2.2 Personal honours
3 Trivia

[edit] Clubs

During his long career, Đức has played for 7th Army Division Football Club, Ho Chi Minh City Police Football Club (where he is best known for), East Asian Bank, Chongqing Lifan, and Da Nang FC where he stays now as a player/coach.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Club:

V-League: 1 with Ho Chi Minh City Police Football Club (1995)

[edit] Personal honours

The only player to participate in 3 SEA Games football competition in a row (1995,1997,1999).
The only player to participate in 5 Tiger Cups (1996,1998,2000,2002,2004).
Vietnamese Golden Ball: 1995, 1997, 2002.
Tiger Cup all-time topscorer.
Le Huynh Duc is the best forward Vietnamese Football has ever produced after the unification of the country. He has all the qualities required to be the best such as leadership, height, and footballing skills. Some people might argue that Nguyen Cao Cuong is better than him but since Cao Cuong had retired long before Huynh Duc began to explode in the South East Asian footballing events, therefore it is difficult to compare them. However Cao Cuong had always failed to make any impact in any FiFa regulated games whereas Huynh Duc had made great impacts in many games such as the one against China in the World Cup 2002 qualification game in which he scored a goal for Viet Nam and performed excellently. Considering that Chinese Football Team at that time was one of the big brothers in Asian Football, Duc's goal agaisnt them was considered a big achievement. Jealous of Huynh Duc's success, Cao Cuong commented that Huynh Duc was not a good footballer. When asked why he said that, he said that Huynh Duc did not have leadership skills and he was not an important player of the team. However all of coaches who had been with the Vietnamese national team, said that Huynh Duc's leadership is not questionable. They even went as far as saying that Huynh Duc was the best striker they had ever coached. Tavares, a former coach of Vietnamese National Football Team, said at the press conference after he signed the contract with the team, that he would build the team around Duc because Duc had all the qualities that a footballer needed.

[edit] Trivia

Đức is 179 cm tall and weighs 72 kg.
Position: Striker.
For every club he played for, he always wore the legendary no.10.
He is married and has two kids. He now resides in Da Nang City, a city that he considers his second home because of the friendliness and respect shown by the locals toward him.
He once was the highest-paid footballer in Vietnam.
He is idolized by many youngsters.
His football talent was discovered by a scout from 7th Army Division Football Club when he played football for his school.
He is well known in Viet Nam for his striking ability. He could kick the ball accurately while running at high speed. He was mostly used by many coaches as a prey to lure his markers out of their positions so that his teammates could exploit the open space to score.