Viet Nguyen
Viet Nguyen is a retired American soccer player who spent his entire professional career with the Seattle Sounders in the USL First Division. As of January 2019, Nguyen is the youth director for Pacific Northwest Soccer Club.
Nguyen attended the University of Louisville, playing on the men's soccer team in 1994 and 1995 and again in 1997 and 1998. He played sixty-nine games, scoring fifteen goals and adding eleven *ists, during his four-year collegiate career. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology. In 1995, Nguyen played for the United States men's national under-20 soccer team which failed to qualify for the World Youth Championships. In 1999, the Seattle Sounders selected Nguyen in the territorial round of the A-League draft. Nguyen spent six seasons with the Sounders before retiring and entering the coaching ranks.
In 2011, he came out of retirement to play for the Tacoma Stars of the Professional Arena Soccer League.
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- '95 Blue – Viet Nguyen