Win Naing Tun
Win Naing Tun (Burmese: ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း; born 3 May 2000) is a Burmese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Indonesian club Borneo Samarinda. He is considered the most promising striker in Burmese football.[2] He won a bronze medal at the 2019 SEA Games.[3][4]
 Naing Tun with Myanmar U23 in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Win Naing Tun | ||
| Date of birth | 3 May 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Depayin, Myanmar | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Borneo Samarinda | ||
| Number | 99 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2011–2015 | Myanmar Football Academy | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2019 | Yadanarbon | 24 | (11) |
| 2020 | Ayeyawady United | 5 | (2) |
| 2021–2023 | Yangon United | 14 | (14) |
| 2023– | Borneo Samarinda | 10 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2017 | Myanmar U18 | 6 | (7) |
| 2016–2019 | Myanmar U20 | 33 | (25) |
| 2018–2023 | Myanmar U23 | 18 | (10) |
| 2021– | Myanmar | 31 | (2) |
Medal record | |||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 October 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 October 2023 | |||
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Early life
Win Naing Tun was born on 3 May 2000 in Saipyingyi Village, Depayin in Sagaing Region. He went to the Myanmar Football Academy.
Career
In 2017, Yadanarbon signed Win Naing Tun from the Myanmar Football Academy.[5][6] He scored his first time ever goal for Yadanarbon against Shan United.
In December 2018, he received the best player award at the Thanh Niên Newspaper International U-21 Football Tournament held in Vietnam.[7] He won the Player of the Month for January at the 2019 Myanmar National League (MNL).[8]
In 2020, he signed for Ayeyawady United.[3][9][10]
He joined Yangon United in 2021, but the league was cancelled for the year. Win Naing Tun played his first match against Shan United but got sent off in the first ten minutes. He scored his first Lions goal against Mahar United, and scored five in a 10-0 battering against relegation-candidates Rakhine United.
In addition to his club successes that year, Win Naing Tun represented Myanmar in the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup. However, he failed to make an impact, missing a penalty in the opening match against Malaysia and failing to make an appearance for the match against Vietnam.
Borneo FC Samarinda
Ahead 2023–24 season, Win Naing Tun decided to go abroad for the first time to Indonesia and joined Liga 1 side Borneo Samarinda.[11] He became the first Myanmar professional footballer to play in Indonesia.[12]
Career statistics
| Club team | Year | Apps | Goals | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yadanarbon | 2018 | 9 | 1 | - |
| 2019 | 15 | 10 | 2 | |
| Total | 24 | 11 | 2 | |
| Club team | Year | Apps | Goals | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayeyawady United | 2020 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 5 | 2 | 1 | |
| Club team | Year | Apps | Goals | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yangon United | 2021–2022 | 10 | 9 | 2 |
| 2022–2023 | 4 | 5 | 1 | |
| Total | 14 | 14 | 3 | |
| Club team | Year | Apps | Goals | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borneo Samarinda | 2023 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 10 | 0 | 1 | |
International
- As of 17 October 2023
Age First Cap:
- ( 21 years 25 days 28-5-2021 vs. Japan 0-10 )
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myanmar | 2021 | 9 | 0 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 10 | 1 | |
| Total | 31 | 2 | |
International goals
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 14 June 2022 | Dolen Omurzakov Stadium, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan |  Singapore | 1–3 | 2–6 | 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualification |
| 2. | 11 September 2023 | Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar |  Nepal | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
Honours
National Team
- Tri-Nation Series (India)
Runners-up (1):2023
Myanmar U-23
- Southeast Asian Games bronze medal: 2019
Myanmar U-19
- Runners-up (1):2018
Individual
- 2018: Best Player of the Thanh Niên Newspaper International U-21 Football Tournament
- AFF U-19 Youth Championship Top scorer: 2018
References
- Yangon United F.C. [@YangonUnitedFC] (8 January 2021). "We are delighted to confirm the signing of Myanmar National U-23 and Ayeyawady United striker Win Naing Tun with a three-year contract for the preparation of upcoming seasons" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 10 July 2021 – via Twitter.
- "မန်မာU 18 အသင်းရဲ့ဂိုးသွင်းစက် ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 9 August 2017.
- "Ayeyawady United signs Myanmar international forward Win Naing Tun". Myanmar DigitalNews. 9 January 2020.
- "ဧရာဝတီအသင်းတိုက်စစ်မှူးသစ် ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်းနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 10 January 2020.
- "၁ ... ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း ပြည့်စုံနိုင် နှင့် မြတ်ကောင်းခန့် တို့အား ရတနာပုံ အသင်းတရားဝင် ခေါ်ယူခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်". Yadanarbon. 2017.
- "Win Naing Tun's late goal gives Yadanabon draw to Shan United". Myanmar DigitalNews. 20 January 2019.
- "Win Naing Tun named best player in Viet Nam football tourney 297". The Global New Light of Myanmar. 20 December 2018 – via Free For Readers.
- "ဇန်နဝါရီအတွက် MNL အကောင်းဆုံးဆုကို ဦးအောင်ကျော်မိုးနှင့် ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း ရရှိ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 3 February 2019.
- "ဖိလစ်ပိုင်ဆီးဂိမ်းစ်တွင် Super-Sub အဖြစ် ခြေစွမ်းပြခဲ့သည့် တိုက်စစ်မှူး ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်းကို ဧရာဝတီအသင်း ခေါ်ယူ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 8 January 2020.
- "တိုက်စစ်မှူး ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်းကို ဧရာဝတီယူနိုက်တက်ခေါ်ယူ". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 10 January 2020.
- "Datangkan Win Naing Tun dari Yangon United dengan Sistem Transfer". www.borneofc.id (in Indonesian). 27 May 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
- "Mengenal Win Naing Tun, Top Skor AFF dan Pemain Myanmar Pertama di Liga Indonesia". www.indosport.com (in Indonesian). 28 May 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
External links
- Win Naing Tun at Soccerway