Aung Thu (footballer)

Aung Thu (Burmese: အောင်သူ; born 22 May 1995) is a Burmese professional footballer who plays as forward for Buriram United and Myanmar national team. He has represented Myanmar internationally at under-17, under-20, under-23, and senior level. Representing Myanmar at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2015, he scored his debut goal against New Zealand.[1]

For the minister, see Aung Thu (minister).

Aung Thu
Aung Thu at Police Tero F.C. 2018
Personal information
Full name Aung Thu
Date of birth (1995-05-22) 22 May 1995
Place of birth Pyinmana, Myanmar
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Buriram United
Number 77
Youth career
2011–2013 Mandalay Football Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2020 Yadanarbon 69 (31)
2018 → Police Tero (loan) 31 (11)
2019 → Muangthong United (loan) 13 (3)
2020– Buriram United 2 (1)
National team‡
2011 Myanmar U16 4 (4)
2013–2017 Myanmar U20 19 (12)
2017–2018 Myanmar U23 16 (5)
2015– Myanmar 41 (9)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 December 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 November 2019

Club career

Early career

In 2009, at the age of 13, Aung Thu represented Pyinmana in U-19 Division Tournament with 3 goals. He would attend the Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay).

Yadanarbon

Yadanarbon signed Aung Thu from Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay). He showed an impressive talent in Yadanarbon FC that increased his value to the whole team by achieving a less than anticipated goal count by assisting other teammates in making goals.

At the 2016 and 2017 MNL Awards Night, he was recognized as the MNL Best Player of the Year.

Police Tero (loan)

In November 2017, Aung Thu signed on as a loan for Thailand club Police Tero formally known as BEC Tero Sasana for the 2018 season. He scored goals and assisted others in theirs; he was recognized as the league player of the month.[2] His goal during the Thai League Week 11 against Sukhothai FC is considered one of the top 5 goals of the round.[3]

Muangthong United (loan)

Aung Thu joined Muangthong United on loan for the 2019 season with options.[4]

Buriram United

In December 2020, Aung Thu signed for Thai League Giant Club Buriram United for US$ 50,000.[5] On 26 December 2020, he made his debut in 2-0 away win against Chonburi [6]

International career

Youth

Aung Thu debuted in national U-16 team that took part in 2011 AFF U-16 Youth Championship.

In 2014, his crucial goal against U-19 Vietnam at the Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy tournament in Brunei and Myanmar would led to his debut crowned champion. He immediately became a Myanmar Fans' favourite striker. His performance led to the international participation of Myanmar and the U-19 Myanmar National team participation to the FIFA U-20 World Cup, international participation last experienced in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.[1] He was noted for his powerful shots and intelligent runs in FIFA technical study book of 2015 U-20 World Cup.[7]

Senior

He made his international debut on 28 August 2015 against United Arab Emirates in a friendly. His debut goal was scored against Laos, 3–1 in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.

International
As of match played 6 June 2019

Age ( 19 years 03 months 06 days )

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Myanmar 201561
2016123
201773
201861
201991
Total409

International goals
Scores and results list Myanmar's goal tally first.[8]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.13 October 2015Supachalasai Stadium, Bangkok  Laos3–13–12018 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.29 March 2016Saida International Stadium, Sidon Lebanon1–01–1
3.20 November 2016Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon  Vietnam1–11–22016 AFF Championship
4.23 November 2016  Cambodia3–13–1
5.5 October 2017Mandalarthiri Stadium, Mandalay  Thailand1–21–3Friendly
6.10 October 2017Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon  Kyrgyzstan1–22–22019 AFC Asian Cup qualification
7.9 November 2017Olympic Stadium, Phnom Penh  Cambodia2–12–1Friendly
8.16 November 2018New Laos National Stadium, Vientiane  Laos1–13–12018 AFF Championship
9.14 November 2019Mandalarthiri Stadium, Mandalay Tajikistan3–14–32022 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Club

Yadanarbon

Individual
  • AFF Youth Player of the Year: 2015
  • Myanmar Player of the Year: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Myanmar National League Player of the Year: 2015, 2016, 2017

International

Myanmar U20

Personal life

Aung Thu married Burmese actress Poe Ei Ei Khant on 31 May 2018;[9] the wedding ceremony was held on 26 March 2019 at the Western Park.[10] They gave birth to their first son Thwin Oo Han on 19 July 2019.[11]

References
  1. "Myanmar v. New Zealand - Match Highlights FIFA U-20 World Cup New Zealand 2015". 5 June 2015.
  2. Murphy, Paul (23 November 2017). "Myanmar striker Aung Thu signs with Police Tero in Thailand". ESPN FC. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. "Thai League Week 11: Top 5 goals of the week – Agree or disagree?". FOX Sports Asia. 23 April 2018.
  4. "Super Big Deal - SCG Muangthong United are proud to introduce Aung Thu".
  5. "Yadanabon striker Aung Thu joins Buriram United".
  6. "Buriam United 2-0 Choiburi".
  7. "AFC U-19 Championship results". AFC. 11 October 2014. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014.
  8. "Thu, Aung". National Football Teams. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  9. "အောင်သူနဲ့ လက်ထပ်ထားတာ(၉)လကျော်သွားပြီဆိုတဲ့ ပိုးအိအိခန့်" (in Burmese). Duwun. 6 March 2019.
  10. "အောင်သူနဲ့ Game ကစားရင်း ဖူးစာဆုံခဲ့တာပါ ဆိုတဲ့ ပိုးအိအိခန့်". Duwun (in Burmese). 26 March 2019.
  11. "ပထမဆုံး ရင်သွေး သားဦးလေး ပိုင်ဆိုင်ခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ အောင်သူနဲ့ ပိုးအိအိခန့်". Yangon News (in Burmese). 20 July 2019.
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