Vietnam's Golden Ball winner's cheek hurts from celebrating too much

After the Ho Chi Minh City Women's Club's unbelievable 5-4 comeback win over Abu Dhabi Country on the evening of March 22, foreign player Aubrey Goodwill happily celebrated, accidentally hurting the 2025 Vietnamese Women's Golden Ball - Tran Thi Thuy Trang.

Thuy Trang suffered a sore cheekbone due to a strong collision with her opponent at the end of the match. Aubrey Goodwill then chose to gently hug his teammate to celebrate.

In this match, Ho Chi Minh City Women's Club was behind 0-3 after the first half and then rose up, successfully coming back to win 5-4 with the first goal shortened by K'Thua (11). After the match, the girl born in 2003, a Co Ho ethnic, said she was very happy to have a new nickname "Khong Thua".

At the end of the match, the whole team ran onto the field to celebrate together emotionally.

The audience at Thong Nhat Stadium also stayed to share the joy with the girls who wrote a new page in history for Vietnamese football at the club level in the Asian arena.

Deputy coach Doan Thi Kim Chi smiled with the whole team and the audience of Ho Chi Minh City.

Overseas Vietnamese midfielder Chelsea Le (number 20) was praised by coach Nguyen Hong Pham for his professional skills and fiery fighting spirit, which has greatly helped the playing style of the Ho Chi Minh City Women's Club.

After the match, Mr. Tran Anh Tu (in blue shirt) representing the Ho Chi Minh City Football Federation's leadership awarded 200 million VND and the Vietnam Football Federation awarded 500 million VND to the Ho Chi Minh City Women's Club.

Currently, the total prize for the girls of Ho Chi Minh City is more than 6 billion VND , including fixed prizes of 220,000 USD (more than 5.6 billion VND ) for the teams entering the quarterfinals and semi-finals from the organizing committee.