Striker Nguyen Tien Linh officially launched the Ho Chi Minh City Police Club.
On the morning of August 6, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Club announced that he successfully recruited striker Nguyen Tien Linh. “To prepare for the 2025/2026 season, Ho Chi Minh City Police Club has successfully recruited striker Nguyen Tien Linh. With experience, bravery used to play in the V.League arena and in the Vietnamese team shirt, Vietnam Golden Ball 2024 promises to help the home team shine in the coming time,” the home team of the police team wrote.
Earlier, despite 1 year of contract, Tien Linh reached an agreement to soon break up with Becamex Ho Chi Minh City (Binh Duong). Tien Linh will wear the No. 22 shirt at the new team and the No. 1 striker of Vietnam Tel will now be ready to become the leading ship on the attack of Ho Chi Minh City Police in the upcoming challenging season.
Tien Linh was born in 1997, grew up from Binh Duong training. The original Hai Duong striker has started to launch team 1 in 2017 and has become the most important pillar of the current Thu land team. Tien Linh scored 71 goals after 147 matches in the V.League arena for Becamex Ho Chi Minh City Club. He had 2 times “the top scorer” in the 2018 and 2024/25 season.
Tien Linh is currently the only Vietnamese player in the history that once won the title of the AFF Cup scorer. Excellent form in 2024 helped Tien Linh win the Golden Ball.
In addition to Tien Linh, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Club also added a number of other factors such as Pham Duc Huy, Dang Van Nhe, Pham Van Luan, Nguyen Duc Phu, Duong Van Hao, Khong Minh Gia Bao and Le Quang Hung. On the foreign side, Ho Chi Minh City Police also brought back the quality rookies. In particular, the most notable is Samuel Bastien. The former Congo player played in Serie A, the Premier League and the leading Belgian clubs. He also appeared in the Burnley squad to win the Championship season 2022/23 to win tickets to play in the Premier League. The 1996 midfielder was expected to significantly increase the quality of the middle line of Ho Chi Minh City Police.
In addition to Bastien, the unified team also added center -back Maheus Santos, the “rock” of 1.86 meters high from Brazil. This player used to wear many traditional rich teams in Samba, promising to reinforce the defense.
According to the schedule, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Club will open the new season with the match against Hanoi FC at home in the first round on August 16.