Nguyễn Tuấn Anh

HAGL - Arsenal JMG Academy

In 2007, Tuấn Anh passed the try-out for HAGL – Arsenal JMG Academy, he was one of only 14 players that got accepted into the academy out of about 7 thousand candidates from all over the country in the first selection. In June 2010, Tuấn Anh and Nguyễn Công Phượng were the only 2 players from HAGL JMG Academy that were invited to a 15 days oversea training program in Mali, It was a training program for top players of JMG Academy from all over the globe. Tuấn Anh was praised and highly rated by the academy's director Jean-Marc Guillou during the training program. In November 2012, Tuấn Anh along with Nguyễn Công Phượng, Lương Xuân Trường, Trần Hữu Đông Triều were four of the players from the academy received the invitation to train with Arsenal F.C. U-17 team. In the letter, Arsenal's performance supervisor, Steve Morrow stated that coach Arsène Wenger was impressed with the academy's players when they beat Arsenal U-17 team in January. After the training end, Tuấn Anh was the player impressed coach Arsène Wenger the most, he even introduced Tuấn Anh to a Greeks football club for a trial. Unfortunately Tuấn Anh missed the trial opportunity as he suffered from a serious ligament injury in early 2012 that took him 6 month to recover. He was sent to a hospital in Paris that specialize in treating injures for sport athlete for the knee operation. Tuấn Anh was voted as player of the tournament at 2014 International U-21 Thanh Niên Newspaper Cup…

Vietnam U19

Tuấn Anh first played for Vietnam U-19 team at 2013 AFF U-19 Youth Championship. He captained his team in the final as they lost to the host Indonesia U-19 in the penalty shoot-out. Tuấn Anh was voted as the player of the tournament. Throughout 2013 to 2014, Tuấn Anh was an important part of the U-19 team he played in all of their competitions such as: 2014 AFC U-19 Championship qualification where his team came out as Group F winner after they shockingly beat Australia U-19 (5-1), 2014 AFF U-19 Youth Championship where they finished second, and 2014 AFC U-19 Championship.

Vietnam U23

Tuấn Anh was called to the Vietnam U-23 team in March 2015 to play in 2016 AFC U-23 Championship qualification. He played at the opening game in which his team beat host Malaysia U-23 (2-1) before missed out the last match again Macau U-23 due to injury. After the Vietnam U-23 team qualified, he played in the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship and scored one goal against UAE-U-23.

Senior

On March 24, 2016, Nguyen Tuan Anh made his first appearance for the Vietnam national team against Chinese Taipei in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification round for Asia, which Vietnam won 4-1. He scored his first goal for the Vietnam national team in the 5-2 victory over North Korea in a friendly on October 6, 2016.

On May 27, 2019, he was called up for the 2019 King's Cup, which took place in Buriram, Thailand. On August 22, 2019, Tuan Anh was named in the preliminary list of…

National team

As of 6 June 2024. Statistics count only matches at FIFA national team and international friendly matches

International goals

U-19

Scores and results list Vietnam's goal tally first.

U-23

Scores and results list Vietnam's goal tally first.

Vietnam

Scores and results list Vietnam's goal tally first.

Tuấn Anh was born on 16th May 1995 in Mai Trang, An Quý, Quỳnh Phụ district, Thái Bình province to Nguyễn Văn Dung, a doctor, and Nguyễn Thị Loan. He's the second child in a family of two siblings, he has an older sister named Quỳnh Mai. His father, Nguyễn Văn Dung is the deputy director of Phụ Dục general hospital in Quỳnh Phụ, Thái Bình, he wanted his son to become a doctor but Tuấn Anh expressed that he loves football more than anything. Tuan Anh's family was later persuaded by his enthusiasm for football and allowed him to follow his dream. Tuấn Anh was a part of Thái Bình province U-11 football team that won the second place in 2004 national youth football tournament in Khánh Hòa province when he was 9. His performance caught the attention of staffs from Thái Bình province's football talent school and he was offered a place at the school. After 7 months of living there, his parents withdrew him from the school due to their concern about living standard there even though the school highly rated Tuấn Anh and really wanted to keep him.