Hai Ngoc Tran
Hai Ngoc Tran ( born January 10, 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam ) is a former Norwegian- Vietnamese football players. In 2002, he had to end his playing career due to chronic back problems at the age of 27 years.
He was a member of the "Second Golden Generation " of Norway, the finished in third place in Bucharest at the U- 21 Football Championship in 1998. With 42 missions he is to date (April 2011) Most games the Norwegian U -21 national team.
Club career
Kongsvinger IL
Tran began his career at the age of seven years in youth his home club Kongsvinger IL. At fourteen, he was considered one of the greatest players talents Norway, before he made his debut at sixteen in the first team of KIL. In consequence he was coached by Brogeland successor, the Rosenborg Trondheim migrated Stig Inge Bjørnebye, mounted on left-back and has become the model student. Over the years he came in consistently introduced 4-4 2 system of the coach, despite its small size, at all defensive positions used and matured to a service provider.
Under Brogeland which, almost exclusively relied on talent because of financial inferiority of the small KIL, managed in a row, a team of unknown players, including with Christer Basma, Vidar Riseth and Geir Frigård three subsequent national team, the breakthrough and were resold at a profit. This led to annual rebuilding the team, which was therefore mostly to find but the vice- champion title in 1992, in the middle of the league.
In 1996, Brogeland left the club towards Lillestrøm SK, after which the system training club Kongsvinger stalled shortly. As of 1996, Tran was the last remaining "jewel" in the club and due to constant strong performance a kind of guarantee for the league.
LASK Linz
After the 1997 season, he followed the call of his former mentor Brogeland and changed shortly on loan to the former club LASK Linz Austria. Brogeland had introduced early in the season the back four when LASK (and thus also in Austria ). After an injury crisis and the ad hoc failures by Brendan Augustine, Johann Kogler and Jürgen Panis, he had for the final phase of the first round in 1997/98 no more players in the squad who could assume the position of left-back.
Since a change in the system for Brogeland but not out of the question, he asked summarily his former club Kongsvinger a short-term lending his star pupil Tran, made possible to him in gratitude for his earlier services. The LASK had to pay no rental fee, but had to be insured as a support for the transfer of the legs of the player in the amount of 8 million shillings. For the remaining four Fall Series games Tran completed then the Norwegian quartet, consisting of his former players Frigard, Riseth and Rune Tangen at LASK. He played all in all possible encounters over the full 90 minutes before he again went into the winter break back to Norway. The transfer for four games represents today is a rarity in the Austrian Bundesliga and brought the person in charge of the club a number of media scolding. The then manager Max Hagmayr justified himself in a row so that you would also like to fix Tran obligation would have been not to lift his transfer fee in accordance with the obligations of Frigard and Riseth start of the season for the LASK.
As a result Tran still played one season for Kongsvinger, during which the club for the first time came for years in the relegation battle, before he was sold to the end of the season surprising about the climber Vålerenga Oslo.
Vålerenga IF
After a strong U -21 Football Championship Tran was no longer tenable for Kongsvinger. During the season, the interest of the two major clubs SK Brann Bergen and Lillestrøm SK became public. This was followed by the English second division side Ipswich Town, with the Tran but could not agree on contract terms, and signed to the good development opportunities under legendary coach Egil Olsen at Vålerenga. The change caused in a row at the fans of both clubs for discord, since VIF associated with KIL since an objection regarding the illegally employed Player Juro Kuvicek of 1995, which was punished with points deduction for VIF, in large Fanfeindschaft each other.
However, in consequence, he started strongly at his new club, established himself at once as a regular player and was part of the team that was able to celebrate a historic success for the club with the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup. Then left with coach Olsen and the biggest talent of the club, John Carew, two key personal the club, then you slipped into the relegation battle.
Tran had to fight for the first time over the entire season with back problems and was only able to complete a championship game. In the 2000 season he was fit again, but never reached more the speed, had previously awarded, among others, his game. Vålerenga rose despite a squad with prominent players such as Erik Hagen, Aki Riihilahti or Kjetil Rekdal as Third to last in the Adecco Ligaen from. He played one more season with the club and managed as master its chances of promotion before Rekdal, meanwhile, went up to player-coach, him suggesting a change. Tran had signed in 1998 as Star Shopping a highly doped contract, but could not bring the appropriate power after his injury.
As a result, it was agreed by mutual agreement to terminate the contract, whereupon he said to his original club KIL who was staying in the meantime to the Second Division, changed. In 2002, he then received six more games before he had his playing career at the age of 27 years, due to chronic back problems, prematurely. Previously, he still galang his first and only goal in the A- team football.
National
In the course of his career he came for each Norwegian national selection team to use. It also includes 42 international appearances record player in the U -21 national team.
In 1993, he was the youngest player in the squad of coach Bjørn Hansen at the Junior World Cup in Australia at age 18. Norway resigned as Last behind Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Brazil in the preliminary round, Tran came in their final group game at 0-2 against Brazil over 90 minutes to use.
In the spring of 1998, he played with a U-23/Olympiaauswahl (see note) of his country, for the purpose of preparing for the U -21 European Championship, the invitational tournament " Cyprus Tournament," where he came against national A in three games for use.
His biggest success at the international level, he reached the third place in the U -21 Football Championship in 1998. The team with players like aspen Baardsen, Steinar Pedersen, Eirik Bakke, Thorstein Helstad, Steffen Iversen, Erik Nevland, Trond Andersen or Frode dump, is still regarded as "second golden generation " of Norway, the years shaped the image into the senior team in a row. Contrary to the U- 20 World Cup in 1993, Tran was the age of 23, this time the oldest player in the squad of coach Nils Johan Semb.
After already was off France and Switzerland in qualification / group phase, one rose after a 1-0 victory over archrival Sweden on the semi-finals, where, however, the eventual champions Spain, with already established at that time in their clubs Juan Carlos Valeron, Michel Salgado, Roger García and Guti, was beaten 0-1. Norway was able to make the meeting on the 90 minutes open before Víctor in stoppage time scored the decisive goal. In the third place match against the Netherlands, one was then successfully 2-0 with a brace from Steffen Iversen. Tran made with teammate Knut Henry Haraldsen left-back and came in all encounters over the full distance to use.
On January 22, 1999, he celebrated together with team-mate John Carew in the 3-3 friendly win against Estonia made his debut in the Norwegian national team. Coach Semb had risen from the underground to the A- 21 national team and was planning a break, which also Tran should belong. Because of his injury-related failure and its later form weakness but he was not called then.
1998 the Norwegian Association to prepare for the U -21 European Championship U -23 team a specially that occurred under the name " Olympic Team Norway ", was launched. The background to this was the fact that the players only the start of qualifying for the finals the age of 22 were not allowed to have passed and Norway thus a squad with several U- 23 players, including Tran had. Overall, the team completed five test matches against European A & B teams, but these are recognized by the Association and is evaluated as U -21 games. Even under deduction of five test matches Tran would be with 37 games still record holder in his country.
After the active career
Since his career, Tran runs a pizzeria and the " Manis Shark Night Club" in Kongsvinger. He has completely turned her back on the football.
Others
Born in Saigon, Tran emigrated at the age of seven years in 1981 with his family as boat people first to Malaysia, where they ansuchten asylum in Norway, which was granted them. Based on this history, he faced during his playing career short with the accusation, not aground under his real birth date. However, the claim proved to be unfounded.
In his native country because of his professional career, he enjoys great popularity, though he ( as of March 2011 ) did not return since his escape in 1981 to date.