Nguyen Quang Hai leads the race for the most beautiful goal of the AFC U23 Championship
(Baonghean.vn) - After the 2018 AFC U23 Championship ended with the championship belonging to the Uzbekistan U23 team, today (January 31), the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) held a vote for the most beautiful goal from 10 nominations.
Accordingly, midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai of U23 Vietnam alone has two nominations to be included in the top 10 with his equalizer goal to tie 2-2 against U23 Qatar in the semi-final and his direct free kick against U23 Uzbekistan to tie 1-1 in the "snow war" match.
Quang Hai's beautiful goal against U23 Qatar in the semi-finals.
Quang Hai's masterpiece in the match against U23 Uzbekistan.
Although the poll was just launched by AFC, both of Quang Hai's goals received very high votes. Up to now, Quang Hai's free kick against Uzbekistan in the final match on January 27th is leading with 64% of the votes (55,856 votes), far surpassing his opponents.
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Quang Hai leads the race for the most beautiful goal of the U23 Asian tournament |
The goal against U23 Qatar in the semi-finals is also in the runner-up position, accounting for 23% of the votes (19,818 votes).
Vote for Nguyen Quang Hai's two goalshere.

Panorama of Nghe An fans welcoming the U23 star back home
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