Vancouver Whitecaps Acquire Lee Nguyen Through Weighted Lottery – SBNation.com

The Vancouver Whitecaps have won the lottery to acquire winger/forward Lee Nguyen, who most recently played professional football in Vietnam. Ngyuen won three caps with the United States men’s national team in 2007, playing in one friendly and two Copa America matches while contracted to PSV Eindhoven. Nguyen then moved on to play for Randers FC in Denmark for one year before moving to Vietnam.

Nguyen scored almost once every other game while playing in the V-League, but the standard of play is not exceptionally high. While Nguyen is generally regarded as a quick and technically skilled player, he’s small even by the standards of modern football wingers and does not have extensive experience in professional leagues at or above the level of MLS. Sources tell SB Nation that Nguyen will be making less than $60k this season. Vancouver had a 47.6 percent chance of landing Nguyen in the lottery, the best odds of all of the teams who participated.

Nguyen will join Long Tan and newly acquired Lee Young-pyo as the other asians on the team. Vancouver will open the MLS season on March 10, 2012 against the expansion team Montreal Impact.

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