The most famous in Vietnam, HAGL still has no title: Sadness belongs to everyone!

The V-League 2024-2025 Awards Gala held on July 1 was without the stars from HAGL. Many fans still hope that one day the mountain town team will be honored with collective and individual titles, because HAGL is still the most popular team.

Achievements do not match the name

Since Cong Phuong, Tuan Anh, Xuan Truong, Van Toan, Hong Duy, Van Thanh… started playing in V-League about ten years ago, HAGL has made the hearts of many Vietnamese football fans flutter. However, titles have always eluded them.

During the aforementioned period, HAGL has not won any collective titles. The last time they came close to winning the V-League championship was in 2021, under coach Kiatisak. That year, the mountain town team led the V-League for a long time, but in the end, the tournament was canceled midway due to the Covid-19 epidemic, so HAGL was not recognized as champions.

HAGL Club has not had many collective or individual titles in V-League

Photo: Minh Tran

As for individual titles, apart from a few rare occasions when HAGL players won small awards, such as Tran Minh Vuong being voted the best young player of V-League 2014, or Nguyen Cong Phuong being voted the best young player of Vietnamese football in 2015, HAGL players have not had any bigger titles.

That is a low note for the famous HAGL. Mr. Duc is passionate about building a generation of talented players to serve Vietnamese football. If V-League 2021 had not been canceled due to the Covid-19 epidemic, HAGL would not only have won the collective title, but also in that year, there is a high possibility that someone from HAGL would have won the individual title. At that time, who knows, there might have been a player from the mountain town team voted the best player of the season, or won the prestigious Vietnam Golden Ball award.

Well, that is also unfortunate for HAGL and for the generation of Cong Phuong, Tuan Anh, Xuan Truong, Van Toan, Van Thanh, Hong Duy...

Fans are still waiting for the day HAGL is honored

Football is a team sport , individual achievements cannot be separated from team achievements. No matter how good Cong Phuong, Tuan Anh, Van Toan, Xuan Truong, Hong Duy, and later Minh Vuong, Chau Ngoc Quang are, it is still difficult for them to be honored with individual titles, once they lack team titles at HAGL.

Minh Vuong left HAGL with only 1 title of best young player of V-League 2014, too little for a talent.

Photo: HAGL FC

That is also what Vietnamese football fans are eager to see HAGL change. Sports in general, and football in particular, are places where there must be competition for achievements to create attraction. Without achievements, there will be no basis for ranking high and low among teams and players.

A football team and a training center that specializes in producing great talents like HAGL but has not had a title for the past ten years, the regret is even greater. If one day, HAGL has a star honored on the V-League award podium, for the most important categories (champion team, best player, top scorer...), then that will certainly be the moment that many Vietnamese football fans are waiting for.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/noi-tieng-bac-nhat-viet-nam-hagl-van-trang-song-danh-hieu-noi-buon-khong-cua-rieng-ai-185250702135600221.htm