Brightness in 2014
Vo Huy Toan is a special case of Vietnamese football, because he has only shined once as the head coach of the national team. More precisely, it was the peak of the Da Lat midfielder's career.
In the following period, along with Mr. Toshiya Miura leaving Vietnam, Huy Toan also unfortunately slipped due to consecutive injuries.
Returning in 2014, Huy Toan appeared for the first time in the first team of SHB Da Nang club. His ability to dribble at high speed on the left wing and his breakthrough shots helped him become a beauty by experts: "The child of the wind god".
Witnessing the 21-year-old player playing steadfastly and confidently in the V.League at that time, coach Miura immediately included him in the Vietnam Olympic team to attend the ASIAD in Incheon, South Korea.
In the first match at the Asian Games, the Vietnamese Olympic team created an "earthquake" when they beat Iran with a score of 4-1. Vo Huy Toan is one of the players who put his name on the scoreboard.
He once proudly recounted: "It was my first goal in my international career, even at a young level.
After the bright performance at ASIAD 2014, Huy Toan became a reliable choice on the left wing corridor of the Japanese military leader, from U23 to the Vietnamese team. Responding to the opportunities that Mr. Miura gave him, the player born in 1993 continuously scored at the 2014 AFF Cup, SEA Games 2015 and U23 Asian qualifiers 2016.
The image of Huy Toan with a Mohawk head running towards the corner of the court, reaching out his arms and laughing brightly when celebrating the goal became familiar to Vietnamese fans at that time. Those were also the most beautiful moments of this midfielder, before the continuous injury.
It's a pity for a talented player
From an impressive player in the period of 2014 - 2015, Huy Toan gradually disappeared from the list of the Vietnam national team. Even in the V.League, he did not appear regularly in the Da Nang shirt.
The departure of coach Toshiya Miura - who maximized Huy Toan's abilities - is just one of the reasons for the impact. The key is that this player is constantly injured, which affects his fitness and performance.
At the end of 2015, Huy Toan actually thought about saying goodbye to football. A disc herniation injury at that time prevented him from walking normally, let alone performing high-intensity activities.
Huy Toan's family took him to many places for treatment, wherever there were good doctors to treat disc herniation, Huy Toan " knocked on the door" to find a way to treat it. His perseverance was rewarded with finding a helpful teacher. After 8 months of focusing on treatment, Huy Toan has returned to the field.
But luck did not smile on this midfielder. After a herniated disc, he often had to take a long break due to knee, groin and muscle pain. Huy Toan's career at the club was also unfinished when he had to leave Da Nang because he could not find a common voice, even though he still had 2 years left on his contract.
In 2020, Huy Toan was unexpectedly given the opportunity to join the Vietnam national team by coach Park Hang-seo. Ironically, a muscle tear during training forced him to say goodbye to the team. Since then, no one has mentioned Huy Toan's name in the campaign of the Vietnam national team under the next coaching era.
Huy Toan himself is no longer indifferent to "eating rice on the team". This player choked up as he wished: "Just hope that from now until retirement, injuries will not come to me anymore!".
