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Xuan Son cannot compete for the 2024 Vietnam Golden Ball

PV (synthesis) January 10, 2025 10:56

It is difficult to find a better Vietnamese football player than Nguyen Xuan Son in 2024, but he cannot win the 2024 Vietnam Golden Ball award.

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Nguyen Xuan Son has not yet competed for the Vietnam Golden Ball award.

It is difficult to find a better Vietnamese football player than Nguyen Xuan Son in 2024. However, this striker certainly cannot win the Golden Ball award at the upcoming 2024 Vietnam Golden Ball award ceremony.

The reason is that at the time the nomination list was announced, Nguyen Xuan Son was still considered a foreign player. Xuan Son became a Vietnamese citizen in October, but it was not until December that he was eligible to wear the Vietnamese national team jersey, due to FIFA regulations.

Xuan Son will play most of 2024 as a foreign player. He is on the list of nominees for the best foreign player of the year category of the 2024 Vietnam Golden Ball award. In this category, no player has made a better impression than the 28-year-old striker.

Having just joined the Vietnam national team, Nguyen Xuan Son scored 7 goals and had 2 assists in his first 4 appearances. The striker of Nam Dinh club won 2 individual awards at the AFF Cup 2024 as the best player and top scorer. Xuan Son is also one of 6 members of the Vietnam national team to be awarded the Third Class Labor Medal.

In 2024, Nguyen Xuan Son surpassed his colleagues at the club level as well as the national team. The striker born in 1997 set a record for scoring in a V.League season (31 goals), and was in the top 10 players with the most goals in the world in the calendar year 2024.

The list of nominees for the Men's Golden Ball category (honoring the best Vietnamese player of the year) has 30 names. Of these, only 13 are players from the Vietnamese national team. This list was announced in early November, before the time the Vietnamese national team gathered to prepare for the AFF Cup 2024.

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Xuan Son cannot compete for the 2024 Vietnam Golden Ball