Phan Văn Tài Em

Phan Văn Tài Em
Personal information
Full name	Phan Văn Tài Em
Date of birth	April 23, 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Châu Thành, Long An, Vietnam
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1998–2002	Long An
Senior career*
Years	Team
2002–2011	Dong Tam Long An
2011–2012	Navibank Sai Gon
2012–2013	Sai Gon Xuan Thanh
2013–2017	Long An
Total
International career‡
2003–2008	Vietnam U23
2002–2011	Vietnam
Managerial career
2017	Long An (assistant)
2018	Sai Gon
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 June 2017; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 December 2015

Phan Văn Tài Em (born April 23, 1982, in Châu Thành District, Long An) is a retired Vietnamese footballer who last played as a midfielder for Dong Tam Long An. He was a member of the Vietnam national football team. He was awarded as the Vietnamese Golden Ball in 2005.

Discovered by Henrique Calisto in 2002, he, since then, became a regular starter in the national team. He has played for the U-23 Vietnam in the 2005 Southeast Asian Games and 2007 Southeast Asian Games. In 2007, he was chosen to play for the national team in the 2007 Asian Cup.

In 2008, Tài Em, along with Nguyễn Minh Phương, captained Vietnam to win the 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup.

He spent most of his career in Gach Dong Ta Long An, but he had considered a move to Navibank Sai Gon^[1]

After the retirement of Nguyễn Minh Phương, Phan Văn Tài Em was handed the captain band of the Vietnam national football team by the new coach Falko Goetz.

In September 2016 Phan Văn Tài Em announced his retirement from football.^[2]

International goals

No	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	21 December 2002	Jakarta,Indonesia	Indonesia	1–1	2–2	2002 AFF Championship
2.	18 February 2004	Hanoi,Vietnam	Maldives	1–0	4–0	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
3.	18 February 2004	Hanoi,Vietnam	Maldives	3–0	4–0
4.	8 September 2004	Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam	South Korea	1–0	1–2