Phan Văn Tài Em

Phan Văn Tài Em
Personal information
Full name	Phan Văn Tài Em
Date of birth	April 23, 1982 (age 39)
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	Long An
2011–2012	Navibank Sài Gòn
2012–2013	Sài Gòn Xuân Thành
2013–2017	Long An
Total
National team‡
2003–2008	Vietnam U23
2002–2011	Vietnam
Teams managed
2017	Long An (assistant)
2018	Sài Gòn
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and 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 Đồng Tâm 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, Em, along with Nguyễn Minh Phương, captained Vietnam to win the 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup.

He spent most of his career in Gach Đồng Tâm Long An, but he had considered a move to Navibank Sài Gòn F.C.^[1]

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

In September 2016 Văn Tài Em announced that he was retiring from football.^[2]