Ngoc Hoa played the best match of her career, becoming a hero to help Vietnamese women's volleyball make history at the Asian tournament.
Up to this point, Ngoc Hoa is still considered the best middle blocker in the history of Vietnamese women's volleyball. She has had many high-class performances in her career, but this can be considered Ngoc Hoa's best match.
Ngoc Hoa becomes a hero, helping Vietnamese women's volleyball team make history at the Asian tournament
Throughout Ngoc Hoa's nearly two-decade career, from club level to national team level, she has played countless excellent matches, won dozens of awards and noble individual titles from best blocker, top scorer, best middle blocker to best attacker, best serve...
Ngoc Hoa played so well that even experts felt confused when having to point out the most memorable performance in the legendary middle blocker's vast career. Almost every match she played well, with comprehensive offense and defense, playing intelligently, passionately, and with all her heart.
Her world-class performances have helped Ngoc Hoa win many awards and titles, and it's not easy to say which is the most prestigious award or title she has ever won.
*Ngoc Hoa's superb performance against Korea in the quarter-finals of the 2012 Asian Cup
Ngoc Hoa won the Vietnam Women's National Volleyball Championship 4 times with VTV Binh Dien Long An, the Thailand National Championship 2 times with Bangkok Glass, won the Asian Club Championship with Bangkok Glass 2015, and won many SEA Games women's volleyball silver medals with the Vietnam team.
However, among many high-class performances by Ngoc Hoa, many people still believe that the quarter-final match of the 2012 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup between Vietnam and Korea was the match of a lifetime for this legendary middle blocker.
At that time, Korea was still the third "big sister" in Asia, just behind China and Japan. Notably, in the Korean team's lineup in the match against Vietnam in 2012, there were 5 stars who had just participated in the 2012 London Olympics.
Against a very strong opponent that year, Ngoc Hoa still played like she was "possessed", scoring 31 points, accounting for nearly 1/3 of the total points that the entire Vietnamese women's volleyball team scored in that match (96 points), contributing decisively to helping us win a historic 3-2 victory after an unbelievable comeback to reach the semi-finals (top 4) of the Asian tournament for the first time.
To see how classy Ngoc Hoa is, it is necessary to know that the number of points Ngoc Hoa scored against Korea in the quarter-finals of the 2012 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup was nearly 3 times more than Kim Hue (11 points), more than 2 times more than main attacker Pham Thi Yen (13 points), and 4 times more than main attacker Do Thi Minh (8 points). Ngoc Hoa's score was considered equal to the total points of Kim Hue, Pham Thi Yen and Do Thi Minh combined. Horrible!
The "basket" of points scored by Ngoc Hoa combined with the superb saves of libero Ta Dieu Linh were the decisive keys that helped the Vietnamese women's volleyball team beat Korea 17-25, 25-23, 14-25, 25-22, 15-11 to enter the semi-finals of the Asian tournament for the first time in history.
That was the miracle of Vietnamese women's volleyball at that time and it took Thanh Thuy, Kieu Trinh and her teammates 10 years later to repeat this great achievement when they also entered the top 4 at the 2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup.
