Hai Ngoc Tran

Hai Tran
Personnel
Surname	Hai Ngoc Tran
birthday	January 10, 1975
place of birth	Saigon ,  Vietnam
size	168 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
1982-1992	Kongsvinger IL
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1992-1998	Kongsvinger IL	117 (0)
1997	→  LASK Linz  (loan)	4 (0)
1998-2001	Valerenga IF	54 (0)
2002	Kongsvinger IL	6 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1989-1990	Norway U-15	9 (0)
1990	Norway U-16	7 (2)
1990-1991	Norway U-17	12 (0)
1992-1994	Norway U18	11 (1)
1993	Norway U-20	3 (0)
1994-1998	Norway U-21	42 (0)
1999	Norway	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Hai Ngoc Tran (born January 10, 1975 in Saigon , Vietnam ) is a former Norwegian - Vietnamese football player . In 2002 he had to end his playing career at the age of 27 due to chronic back problems.

He was a member of Norway's "Second Golden Generation" , which came third at the 1998 U-21 European Football Championship in Bucharest . With 42 appearances to date (as of April 2011) he is the record player for the Norwegian U-21 national team.

Club career

Kongsvinger IL

Tran began his career at the age of seven in the youth of his home club Kongsvinger IL . At the age of fourteen, he was considered one of Norway's greatest playing talents, before making his debut on the KIL professional team at the age of sixteen . As a result, he was built by coach Per Brogeland to succeed Stig Inge Bjørnebye , who had migrated to Rosenborg Trondheim , on the left defensive side and developed into his model student. Over the years he was used in the consistently introduced 4-4-2 system of the trainer, despite his small size, in all defensive positions and matured into a high performer.

Under Brogeland, who relied almost exclusively on talent due to the financial inferiority of the small KIL, a group of unknown players, including Christer Basma , Vidar Riseth and Geir Frigård, three later national players, made the breakthrough and were profitably resold. This led to the annual rebuilding of the team, which therefore mostly, with the exception of the runner-up title in 1992, was to be found in the midfield of the league.

In 1996 Brogeland finally left the association in the direction of Lillestrøm SK , after which the Kongsvinger training association system stalled for a short time. From 1996 Tran was the last remaining "jewel" in the club and, due to consistently strong performances, a kind of guarantee for relegation.

LASK Linz

After the 1997 season he followed the call of his former mentor Brogeland and temporarily switched to his former club LASK Linz in Austria on loan . Brogeland introduced the back four at LASK (and thus also in Austria) at the start of the season . After an injury misery and the ad hoc failures of Brendan Augustine , Johann Kogler and Jürgen Panis , he had no player in the squad who could take the position of left defender for the final phase of the first half of the 1997/98 season.

However, since a system change was out of the question for Brogeland, he asked his former club Kongsvinger for a short-term loan from his model student Tran, which was made possible for him out of gratitude for his earlier services. LASK did not have to pay a loan fee, but had to insure the player's legs for an amount of 8 million schillings as a condition for the transfer . For the remaining four autumn championship games, Tran then completed the Norwegian quartet, consisting of his former teammates Frigard, Riseth and Rune Tangen at LASK. He played in all possible matches for the full 90 minutes before he went back to Norway during the winter break. The transfer for four games is still unique in the Austrian Bundesliga and brought several media scolding to those responsible for the club. The manager at the time, Max Hagmayr, justified himself by saying that Tran would have liked to have committed himself to the LASK, but after Frigard's and Riseth's commitments at the start of the season, his transfer fee would not have been paid.

As a result, Tran played one more season for Kongsvinger, in the course of which the club got into relegation battle for the first time in years, before it was surprisingly sold to newly promoted Vålerenga Oslo at the end of the season .

Vålerenga IF

After a strong U-21 European football championship , Tran could no longer be held by Kongsvinger. Already during the season the interest of the two big clubs Brann Bergen and Lillestrøm SK became public. It was followed by the English second division Ipswich Town , with whom Tran could not agree on the contractual terms and signed with Vålerenga due to the good development opportunities under coaching legend Egil Olsen . The change caused discord among the fans of both clubs, as VIF and KIL have been in great fan hostility to each other since an objection regarding the illegally deployed player Juro Kuvicek from 1995, who was punished with deducting points for VIF .

As a result, however, he made a strong start at his new club, established himself straight away as a regular player and was part of the team that celebrated a historic success for the club by making it into the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup . After that, with coach Olsen and the club's greatest talent, John Carew , two key personalities left the club, whereupon they slipped into the relegation battle.

Tran had to struggle for the first time over the entire season with back problems and could only complete one championship game. In the 2000 season he was fit again, but never reached the speed that had previously distinguished his game. Vålerenga was relegated to the Adeccoligaen as third from bottom despite a squad with prominent players such as Erik Hagen , Aki Riihilahti or Kjetil Rekdal . There he played another season and managed to get promoted again with the club as champions, before Rekdal, meanwhile promoted to player-coach, suggested a change. Tran had signed a high-value contract as a star buyer in 1998, but was no longer able to perform after his injury.

As a result, an amicable agreement was reached to terminate the contract, whereupon he moved to his home club KIL, which in the meantime had been relegated to the third division. In 2002 he then played six more games before he had to end his playing career early at the age of 27 due to chronic back problems. Before that, he scored his first and only goal in senior team football.

National team

In the course of his career he was used for every Norwegian national team. In addition, he is the record player for the U-21 national team with 42 international matches.

In 1993, at the age of 18, he was the youngest player in coach Bjørn Hansen's squad at the Junior World Cup in Australia . Norway was the last to be eliminated in the preliminary round behind Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Brazil, Tran played in the last group game in a 2-0 draw against Brazil over 90 minutes.

In the spring of 1998 he played with a U-23 / Olympic team (see note) from his country, in preparation for the U-21 European Championship, the invitation tournament "Cyprus Tournament", where he was used in three matches against senior national teams.

His greatest success on an international level came with third place at the U-21 European Football Championship in 1998 . The team with players such as Espen Baardsen , Steinar Pedersen , Eirik Bakke , Thorstein Helstad , Steffen Iversen , Erik Nevland , Trond Andersen or Frode Kippe , is still considered to be the “Second Golden Generation” of Norway, which has been in the picture for years A national team shaped. In contrast to the U-20 World Cup in 1993, Tran was this time the oldest player in coach Nils Johan Semb's squad at the age of 23 .

After eliminating France and Switzerland in the qualification / group stage, they rose to the semi-finals after a 1-0 victory over arch-rivals Sweden, where they, however, faced later European champions Spain with Juan Carlos Valerón , who was already established at their clubs , Míchel Salgado , Roger García and Guti were beaten 0-1. Norway kept the game open for the full 90 minutes before Víctor scored the decisive goal in extra time. In the game for third place against the Netherlands, they were then successful 2-0 thanks to a brace from Steffen Iversen. Tran formed the left defense with team-mate Knut Henry Haraldsen and played the full game distance in all matches.

On January 22, 1999, he and teammate John Carew made his debut in the Norwegian national team in a 3: 3 friendly match against Estonia . Coach Semb was promoted from the U-21 to the senior national team and was planning a change that Tran should also belong to. Due to his injury-related loss and his later form weakness, he was no longer called up.

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In 1998 the Norwegian federation set up a U-23 team called "Olympic Team Norway" to prepare for the U-21 European Championship. The background to this was the fact that the players were only allowed to not have exceeded the age of 22 at the beginning of the qualification for the final round and Norway thus had a squad with several U-23 players, including Tran. The team played a total of 5 test games against European A&B national teams, which are recognized by the association and counted as U-21 games.

After the active career

Since the end of his career, Tran has been running a pizzeria and the “Manis Shark Nightclub” in Kongsvinger . He has completely turned his back on football.

Others

Born in Saigon, Tran emigrated at the age of seven in 1981 with his family as boat people first to Malaysia , where they applied for asylum in Norway , which they were granted. Because of this history, he was briefly confronted with the accusation during his active career of not showing up under his correct date of birth. However, the claim turned out to be baseless.

In his native country, he enjoys great popularity due to his professional career, although he has not returned since his escape in 1981 to date (March 2011) .

successes

society

• 1 × champion 1st division : 2001
• 1 × runner-up in the elite series : 1992

National team

• 1 × U-21 European football championship : 3rd place in 1998

Web links

• Player profile on the official website of Vålerenga Oslo
• Hai Ngoc Tran in the database of FIFA (English)
• Player profile at fotball.no
• Player profile at altomfotball.no
• Player profile at fozzum.com
• International match statistics at home.no

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} VPN møter Hai Ngoc Tran (Norwegian) arkiv.vpn.no, accessed on April 7, 2011
2. ↑ Die Wikinger-Saga , Sportzeitung “Number 47 from November 18, 1997 Page 10 Section: Football
3. ^ New LASK Norwegian fled Vietnam as "Boat People" , Kronen Zeitung of November 12, 1997, page 45
4. ↑ LASK as a melting pot of nations , Kronen Zeitung of February 24, 1998, page 22
5. ↑ ^{a b} LASK puzzled! , Kronen Zeitung of January 28, 1998, page 46
6. ↑ ^{a b} The tenth legionnaire at LASK! , Kronen Zeitung of November 13, 1997, page 59
7. ↑ Ber Klanen glemme 14 år gammel krangel (Norwegian) vg.no, accessed on April 7, 2011
8. ↑ December 8th: Den utrolige snuoperasjonen (Norwegian)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fotball.aftenposten.no, accessed April 7, 2011  
9. ↑ Haraldsen får gå fra Vålerenga (Norwegian)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fotball.aftenposten.no, accessed April 7, 2011  
10. ↑ Tran tilbake til Kongsvinger (Norwegian)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fotball.aftenposten.no, accessed April 7, 2011  
11. ↑ Teams: Norway fifa.com, accessed April 6, 2011
12. ^ Norway-Brazil 0: 2 fifa.com, accessed April 6, 2011
13. ^ Cyprus Tournament 1998 rsssf.com, accessed April 6, 2011
14. ↑ 1998: Iván Pérez lets Spain cheer uefa.com, accessed April 6, 2011
15. ↑ Semb: - Norge har meget gode EM-sjanser (Norwegian) ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fotball.aftenposten.no, accessed April 6, 2011  
16. ↑ Friendly in Umm-al-Fahm, Israel, Norway-Estonia 3: 3 rsssf.no, accessed April 6, 2011
17. ↑ Første borteseier mot Estonia? (Norwegian)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fotball.aftenposten.no, accessed April 7, 2011  
18. ↑ U23 national team record rsssf.no, accessed 7 April 2011
19. ↑ Happy Manis Shark Nightclub. (Hai Ngoc Tran - 8 år etter) (Norwegian) ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. vpn.no, accessed September 7, 2010  
20. ↑ ^{a b} Forsker på vietnamesiske hedmarkinger (Norwegian) nrk.no, accessed on April 7, 2011