Van Toan will rest until the end of 2025

Player Nguyen Van Toan has just had surgery to completely treat his injury and needs about 6 months to recover.

Van Toan will rest for the rest of this year - Photo: NGOC LE

On August 13, Nam Dinh FC announced that Nguyen Van Toan had undergone knee cartilage surgery in Ho Chi Minh City. The surgery lasted more than 1 hour and went smoothly.

Nam Dinh Club head coach Vu Hong Viet called to encourage Van Toan. He said the team is ready to create the best conditions for this striker to return to training with the team soon.

According to the club's doctors, it is expected that Van Toan will need about 5-6 months to return to competition. Toan is staying in Ho Chi Minh City for doctors to monitor him for the next few days, before being discharged from the hospital to return home.

Thus, Van Toan will miss the first leg of V-League 2025 - 2026 with Nam Dinh Club.

Previously, the team from Thanh Nam also confirmed that they would not be able to have Xuan Son in the next period, so the team had to recruit many new players to fill the two important positions left behind.

Van Toan will also miss 3 matches with the Vietnamese team this year. In October and November, coach Kim Sang Sik's team will play 3 matches against Nepal and Laos in Group F of the 3rd qualifying round of the 2027 Asian Cup.

Nam Dinh FC informed that Van Toan suffered an injury while playing for the Vietnam national team in the 2024 ASEAN Cup. Since then, Toan has continued to play in the V-League but his performance has been greatly affected. Therefore, he decided to undergo surgery to completely treat the injury.

Van Toan, born in 1996, from Hai Duong , is one of the elite strikers trained by Hoang Anh Gia Lai. He is a member of the "Thuong Chau heroes" generation, a backup player of coach Park Hang Seo in the U23 Vietnam and the Vietnam national team in the period 2018 - 2022.

When the Vietnamese team transferred to the time of coach Philippe Troussier and Kim Sang Sik, Van Toan still regularly participated in many important arenas such as the Asian Cup and World Cup qualifiers.

At the ASEAN Cup 2024, Van Toan only played 4 group stage matches before having to rest due to a torn knee ligament.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/van-toan-nghi-het-nam-2025-20250813195126955.htm