Hoa volleyball
She then moved to Bangkok Glass where she and many Thai national team members lifted the Thai League in 2014-16. Hoa was offered a one-year deal to play for Ayutthaya A.T.C.C of Thailand and she helped the club finish in third place overall and was voted as the best middle blocker of the Thai League. In 2013, four-time national champion Hoa made a turning point in not only her career but also in Việt Nam’s history as she became the first Vietnamese volleyball player to compete for a foreign club.įollowing her, other players have since received offers from international clubs. The former national captain has been called the woman who introduced Vietnamese volleyball to the world. Hoa has been retired from competition for more than one year but her name still carries weight in volleyball locally and regionally. She is good not only on attack but also in defend. Head coach of Bình Điền Long An Nguyễn Quốc Vũ said it is impossible to account for what his skipper has contributed to the club during her more one and a half-decade period there.Ĭaptain Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hoa in the national team jersey. She has reached Asian level,” said former national coach Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng. “Hoa is a rare talented player of Việt Nam.
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Her presence on the court always made her teammates more confident thanks to her playmaking ability. In 2007, she was Best Blocker and Best Scorer at the Asian Women’s Club Volleyball Cup. She was named Best Middle Blocker in the 23rd SEA Games in 2005. Hoa was not only a good attacker but also a smart blocker and was a master of reading the game. She not only quickly secured a spot in the first team of the club but just needed four years to make her name in the national team and the 16-year-old was one of Việt Nam's at the 22nd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Hà Nội in 2003.įrom that milestone, Hoa was the key middle blocker for her club and country for 15 years, setting records with four national championship titles, seven SEA Games silvers and one bronze. However, the talented girl soon proved she was better than anyone. As the youngest member of the Long An team (now VTV Bình Điền Long An), Hoa had to work hard to catch up with her older teammates. Hoa is enjoying her debut as deputy head coach of the VTV Bình Điền Long An club, a new chapter in the career of Việt Nam’s best volleyballer.īorn in 1987 in Long An Province, Hoa was scouted to be a volleyballer at the age of 12. Sometimes it looks like she wants to jump onto the court to compete with her players at the ongoing National Volleyball Championship in Hà Tĩnh Province. She walks along the court and screams, telling players to take the right positions and what shots to make. HÀ NỘI - Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hoa can't stand still throughout a match.
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Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hoa (No 20) plays under the jersey of Bangkok Glass during the 2016 FIVB Women's Club World Championship.