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Wanting to keep hopes of playing in Vietnam for Filip Nguyen, the representative has arranged for the 1992-born goalkeeper not to play for the Czech Republic in the Nations League on September 7.
Filip Nguyen trained with the Czech national team before the match against Scotland on 9/7. Image: Czech RP.
“Filip Nguyen was supposed to start the game against Scotland. But his representative has spoken with the Czech Football Federation to facilitate them, to help maintain hope of joining the Vietnamese team later.” The Czech team is also ready to support, because they know that this is only a second team and this call-up is an unexpected result, “shared Mr. Nguyen Minh, father of Filip Nguyen. VnExpress 9/9 in the morning. “In the near future, the family will continue to find ways to apply for Vietnamese citizenship for Filip Nguyen, in the hope that one day I will have the dream of playing for my homeland team.”
Filip Nguyen is Slovan Liberec Club’s number one goalkeeper, having played 34 matches and kept nine clean sheets in the 2019-2020 season. The previous season he won the title of Outstanding Goalkeeper of the Czech national championship. However, the goalkeeper of a Vietnamese father and Czech mother is not respected in the national team. He was only cited last weekend, when some of the team’s top players were quarantined for being in close contact with two nCoV-infected medical staff.
According to FIFA regulations, if he enters the game against Scotland, Filip Nguyen will not be allowed to use any other equipment. With the intervention of the representative, the goalkeeper born in 1992 sat on the bench of Ales Mandous, the goalkeeper of the 11th selection of the Czech national championship, Sigma Olomouc. “Filip loves Vietnam very much. His current girlfriend also mixes with Vietnamese – Czech, so he has more motivation to return and contribute to Vietnam,” added Mr. Nguyen Minh. “Joining the Czech team recently is a must. Filip is a Czech citizen, lives and works here, so he has an obligation to serve this country when called.”
Four years ago, Filip Nguyen intended to naturalize in Vietnam, but had to cancel the plan due to the limitations of Czech regulations. But recently, the country has changed its law and allows citizens to have dual citizenship.
According to Mr. Nguyen Minh, Filip Nguyen’s naturalization procedure was blocked due to the Covid-19 epidemic, so he was unable to return home to apply for a green card. He explained: “If he returns now, Filip Nguyen will be quarantined for 14 days and when he returns to the Czech Republic as well. This will greatly affect Filip’s work at the Slovan Liberec club, he may even lose his arrest.” It is precisely because the new season of the Czech Republic Championship is taking place. We will study how to specifically apply, apply and apply at the Vietnamese embassy in Czech Republic. “
Filip Nguyen tried a job at Thanh Hoa in 2016 but couldn’t sign a contract because Thanh’s team didn’t want to lose a foreigner fee for the goalkeeper position. He was also on the list of promising Vietnamese players presented by the VFF to Coach Park Hang-seo.
Lam Tho
