Nguyễn Cao Cường

Nguyễn Cao Cường
Personal information
Full name Nguyễn Cao Cường
Date of birth (1954-10-27) 27 October 1954
Place of birth Hanoi, North Vietnam
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position Second striker
Youth career
1970–1973 Thể Công
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1973–1990 Thể Công 332 (127)
Total 332 (127)
International career
1982–1985 Vietnam 5 (8)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nguyễn Cao Cường (born 1954) is the retired Vietnamese footballer who played from 1970 to 1990 as a second striker for Thể Công and Vietnam. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of the Vietnamese greatest-ever footballer in all-times. He once won the Vietnam Football Championship four times, once won the title of Top-scores breaking the 1982-1983 season with 22 goals and twice was voted the typical Vietnamese athlete in 1981 and 1983.