Viet Nguyen

Viet Nguyen is an American retired 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.

Club career

Nguyen was born in Dallas, Texas from Vietnamese parents. He attended the University of Washington, 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 assists, during his four-year collegiate career. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology. 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.

International career

In 1994, Nguyen played for the United States men's national under-20 [soccer team|United States national under-20 team] in the CONCACAF U-20 Tournament. The United States got eliminated in the group phase and failed to qualify for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.