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Dung crucial to team at AFC Women’s Cup

Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Thi Tuyet Dung is one of the eight important players at the upcoming Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cup Jordan 2018.
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Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Thi Tuyet Dung (left). (Photo: the-afc.com)


Hanoi (VNA) -Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Thi Tuyet Dung is one of the eight importantplayers at the upcoming Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian CupJordan 2018.

This was announced on AFC’sofficial website, the-afc.com.

Before the event kicks offin April, the website took a look at the players who will play a pivotal rolefor their respective teams.

The website described Dungas a winger blessed with pace and skill, who regularly pulled the creativestrings and added four goals of her own as Vietnam ran riot to find the net 27times in four qualifying matches.

Dung won the Vietnam Playerof the Year award in 2014 and was a runner-up in 2015 and 2017.

Besides Dung, the websitementions Maysa Jbarah of Jordan, Wang Shuang of China, Kanjana Sung-Ngoenof Thailand, Sara Castaneda of the Philippines, Saki Kumagai of Japan, Sam Kerrof Australia, and Ji So-yun of the Republic of Korea.

At the AFC event, Vietnam are inGroup B, together with the continental powerhouses of defending champions Japan, theRepublic of Korea and Australia.

Vietnam will play againstJapan on April 7, followed by Australia on April 11, and the Republic of Koreatwo days later.-VNA
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