{"id":57667,"date":"2021-03-05T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=57667"},"modified":"2021-03-05T04:58:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:58:42","slug":"nguyen-thi-ngoc-hoa-volleyball-pioneer-of-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/nguyen-thi-ngoc-hoa-volleyball-pioneer-of-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"NGUYEN THI NGOC HOA: VOLLEYBALL PIONEER OF VIETNAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>She became first Vietnamese volleyball player to compete for a foreign club<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit: vietnamnews.vn, webthethao.vn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bangkok, Thailand, March 5, 2021 &#8211; At the 2020 Vietnam National Volleyball Championship in Ha Tinh Province, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa could&#8217;t stand still\u00a0throughout a match. She walked along the court and screamed, telling players to take the right positions and what shots to make. Sometimes it looked as if she wanted to jump onto the court to compete with her players.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57672\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/8730e136b2735b2d0262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/8730e136b2735b2d0262.jpg 665w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/8730e136b2735b2d0262-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/8730e136b2735b2d0262-600x418.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hoa enjoyed her debut as deputy head coach of the VTV B\u00ecnh Dien Long An club and it turned out to be a new chapter in the career of\u00a0one of the best volleyball players Viet Nam has ever produced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A volleyball talent<\/strong><br \/>\nBorn in 1987 in Long An Province, Hoa was scouted to be a volleyball player at the age of 12. As the youngest member of the Long An team (now VTV B\u00ecnh Dien Long An), Hoa had to work hard to catch up with her older teammates. However, the talented girl soon proved she was better than anyone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57675\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC02487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC02487.jpg 665w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC02487-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC02487-600x397.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She not only quickly secured a spot in the first team of the club but just needed four years to make her name in the national team and the 16-year-old joined the Vietnam&#8217;s lineups at the 22nd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Ha Noi in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>From that milestone, Hoa became the key middle blocker for her club and the country for\u00a015 years, setting records with\u00a0four National Championship titles, seven SEA Games silvers and one bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Hoa was not only a good attacker but also a smart blocker. She was a master of reading the game.<\/p>\n<p>She was named Best Middle Blocker in the 23rd SEA Games in 2005. At the 2007 Asian Women\u2019s Club Championship on home soil, Ngoc Hoa played for Sport Centre 1 team and took the Best Blocker and Best Scorer awards.<\/p>\n<p>Her presence on the court always made her teammates more confident, thanks to her playmaking ability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoa is a rare talented player of Vietnam. She has reached Asian level,\u201d said former national coach Nguyen M\u1ea1nh Hung.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen Quoc Vu, head coach of B\u00ecnh Dien Long An, said it is impossible to account for what his skipper has contributed to the club during her more one and a half-decade period there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57670\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3.png 580w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A volleyball statue<\/strong><br \/>\nHoa had been retired from competition\u00a0for more than two years but her name still carries weight in volleyball locally and regionally.<\/p>\n<p>The former national captain has been called the\u00a0woman who introduced Vietnamese volleyball to the world.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, four-time national champion Hoa made a turning point in not only her career but also in Vietnam\u2019s history as she became the first Vietnamese volleyball player to compete for a foreign club.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57671\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/953bb9967eda9c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/953bb9967eda9c.jpg 660w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/953bb9967eda9c-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/953bb9967eda9c-600x459.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After Ngoc Hoa, other players followed her successful steps to have since received offers from international clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Hoa was offered a one-year deal to play for Ayutthaya A.T.C.C of Thailand and she helped the club finish in third place overall and was voted the best middle blocker of the Thailand Volleyball League in 2014-2015. The team came up with much better form to win the Thai-Denmark Super League trophy in the same period.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57669\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2-1-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2-1-600x393.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She later moved to Bangkok Glass where she and many Thailand national team members including star spiker Pleumjit Thinkaow lifted the Thailand Volleyball League for two consecutive times in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57677\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ngoc-hoa2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ngoc-hoa2.jpg 915w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ngoc-hoa2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ngoc-hoa2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ngoc-hoa2-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hoa made a unique achievement as\u00a0the only Vietnamese volleyball player to win two national titles of two different countries.<\/p>\n<p>As the Thailand League champions, Bangkok Glass represented the country at the 2015 Asian Women\u2019s Club Championship in Ha Nam, Vietnam, where they took the top podium, making Hoa the first Vietnamese ever to capture an Asian gold medal apart from the Best Middle Blocker title of that top-flight competition.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"[BGVC] 22 points by Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HnnTCKLOnGM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The victory secured Bangkok Glass a slot in the 2016 FIVB Women&#8217;s\u00a0Club World Championship in the Philippines, making the 1.83m-tall Hoa the first and only Vietnamese at that global tournament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57678\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed.jpg 512w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bangkok Glass finished in seventh position but with her impressive performances, Hoa, coming from an unfamiliar country to world of volleyball, was mentioned repeatedly by FIVB commentators alongside\u00a0world stars during the event.<\/p>\n<p>With her contribution to the Thailand League, Hoa was one of two Vietnamese listed as best foreign female players by SMMSPORT, a Thailand-based sports channel that broadcasts sports news, highlights and live matches from around Thailand and Asia, in an article years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57673\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/93900_ngoc-hoa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/93900_ngoc-hoa.jpg 640w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/93900_ngoc-hoa-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/93900_ngoc-hoa-600x396.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SMMSPORT described Hoa as a player with excellent playing skills in both back and front rows with good blocks. She helped Ayutthaya VC win the 2014 Thai-Denmark Super League and\u00a0became a leading player of the league with a key role in Bangkok Glass\u2019s consistent wins (Thailand League and Super League, both in 2015 and 2016).<\/p>\n<p>2018 was the last season Hoa played for the national team. A year later, she finally called it a day \u201cto leave room for younger and more talented players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have prepared everything to become a coach. I am really interested in and excited with the new job,\u201d said Hoa who refused to play again despite kind requests from her club and the national team. \u201cMy life is all for volleyball and I will do my job the best way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<br \/>\nAVC Website: click www.asianvolleyball.net<br \/>\nAVC Facebook: click www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<br \/>\nAVC Twitter: click: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<br \/>\nAVC Instagram: click: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<br \/>\nAVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<br \/>\nAVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She became first Vietnamese volleyball player to compete for a foreign club Credit: vietnamnews.vn, webthethao.vn Bangkok, Thailand, March 5, 2021 &#8211; At the 2020 Vietnam National Volleyball Championship in Ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-volleyball-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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