After two matches in Group B – 2022 Asian Women’s Qualifier, the Vietnamese women’s football team leads the rankings with 6 points after 2 very strong victories over Maldives (16-0) and Tajikistan (7-0). With this achievement, the Vietnamese women’s team has excellently entered the finals of the 2022 Asian Women’s Football Championship.
Female player on the Hanoi staff Pham Hai Yen (left) is temporarily leading the list of “Top scorer” – 2022 Asian Women’s Qualifier – Photo: VFF.
In these two matches, female player on the Hanoi staff Pham Hai Yen scored 8 goals. In particular, Pham Hai Yen scored 6 goals against Maldives and 2 goals in the match with Maldives and in the match with Tajikistan. With the goals of striker Hai Yen, the Vietnamese women’s team started the qualifying round with two wins and she temporarily led the list of “scorers”. After helping the Vietnamese women’s team win tickets to the finals of the 2022 Asian Women’s Football Championship, striker Pham Hai Yen has been praised by the official website of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) who expects here to help Vietnam participate in the World Cup.
Pham Hai Yen (12) is praised by the AFC and is expected to help Vietnam participate in the World Cup – Photo: AFC.
The AFC website also has an article praising the 26-year-old striker. “The pandemic has kept Hai Yen from scoring at the international tournament for nearly two years. But she did more in Dushanbe, with an impossibly strong comeback: two 135-minute kicks and eight goals.
As a substitute in Vietnam’s record 16-0 win over Maldives, she scored six goals herself in 33 minutes before scoring two more against Tajikistan to help the Vietnamese women’s soccer team win tickets to the final round.
She has long been considered a dangerous assassin in both domestic and international tournaments, Hai Yen will seek to make her mark in the highest arena on the continent. Perhaps she will lead Vietnam to more and more sublimation to participate in the first World Cup finals in history.”, AFC website writes about Hai Yen.
Pham Hai Yen was born in 1994, from Thuong Tin, Hanoi, currently the captain of the Hanoi women’s football club and a member of the Vietnam national team.
In Hanoi football club, Pham Hai Yen won the national championship in the years of 2011, 2013 and 2014, runner-up of 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2019, third place of 2017 and 2018, and runner-up of the National Cup 2019. With the national team, the girl born in 1994 won the bronze medal in SEA of 2011 and 2018; Silver medal in SEA Games 2016; gold medal in SEA Games 2019, Gold medal at SEA Games 2017 and 2019. In addition, Hanoi striker won the title of “National Championship’s Scorer” in 2015, 2018 and 2019; Excellent player scoring many goals in the National Cup 2019…, especially, “Vietnam Women’s Silver Ball” 2020.
In 2011, Pham Hai Yen was called to attend the national team and after the 2016 AFF Cup, Hai Yen became the mainstay of the Vietnamese women’s team. In 2017, Hai Yen attended the SEA Games for the first time and scored a very important goal against Thailand, helping the Vietnamese team win the gold medal. Hai Yen then continuously scored for the Vietnamese team in the 2018 Asian Cup’s qualifying arenas. 2019 was an impressive year for Hai Yen when she made a huge contribution to the Hanoi club’s runner-up position at the national championship with 17 goals, won the “Top scorer” award. At the national team level, she also made an important contribution to winning the 2019 Southeast Asian Championship. At SEA Games 30, Hai Yen scored the only goal in the women’s soccer final, helping Vietnam won the gold medal.
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