Kyaw Zin Lwin

Kyaw Zin Lwin (born 4 January 1993) is a Burmese professional footballer who plays as a right back for Myanmar club Ayeyawady United.

Kyaw Zin Lwin
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-01-04) 4 January 1993
Place of birth Pyuntaza, Bago, Myanmar
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Right back
Team information
Current team
 Shan United
Youth career
2011 Magwe Youth Team
2012 Mawyawadi Youth Team (Loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2018 Magway 101 (2)
2019–2020 Ayeyawady United 24 (0)
2021– Shan United 45 (2)
International career‡
2015 Myanmar U23 6 (2)
2016– Myanmar 37[1][2] (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 October 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 Sep 2023

Early life

Kyaw Zin Lwin was born on 4 January 1993[3] in Pyuntaza, Nyaunglebin Township, Bago District, Bago Region, Myanmar.

Magway FC

When he was in junior team in 2011, he trained under the guidance of U Chit Naing whom he described as his first teacher in football. But he had to start his career as a ball boy and there was no playmates for him at that time. The son of the cook of Magway FC helped him in training. Ye Win Aung and Zaw Min Htun, both of whom called him little brother, encouraged him a lot and guided him at that time. They became his icons as they were hardworking footballers who spent much of their free time for training. After being allowed to play a year in junior team, he was considered not qualified to be in senior team and sent on loan to Mawyawadi FC. He became a line up player at that team and played about 13 games . At first he was paid 50,000 kyats per month. Later when he played in senior team, he asked for 1.5 lakh per month, and then 1 lakh per month as salary but the club offered him 80,000 kyats per month. Hein Zar Aung told him to come back to Magway FC. When he came back, Magway FC offered him to play as a senior team player but he denied and chose to stay in junior team where he played 21 games against many clubs except against Kambawza FC. After that, according to his in friendly against other teams and U Kyi Lwin's support, he signed his contract as a senior team player. He won 2016 General Aung San Shield with Magway FC on 17 August 2016.[4][5] Currently, he is playing as a defender in Magway FC.

Myanmar national team

At youth level

At first he was selected for Myanmar's Under-23 squad but not as a first line-up player. During 28th Seagames in Singapore, in a match against Indonesia,[6] he came on as a substitute in the 65th minute and scored a goal.[7] Since then, he became a line-up player in matches against Singapore,[8] Philippines,[9] Cambodia,[10] Vietnam, and Thailand.[11] He won silver medal with Myanmar national team in 28th Seagames. His goal in a match against Philippines was selected as one of the Top 10 goals in 28th Seagames.[12]

Outside football

Personal life

He left school when he WAS in the 8th Standard. Before he started his football career, he worked as an assistant for masons to get 2,000 kyats per day to help his mother who was a pedlar with many young children. When he was paid 50,000 kyats per month he send 40,000 kyats to his family.[13][14]

Kyaw Zin Lwin is in a relationship with Pann Nu.

Despite the similar name, he is not related to either Kyaw Zin Htet or Kyaw Zin Phyo.

Charity

He involved in charitable efforts in his hometown Pyuntasa.

International
As of match played 30 December 2022
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Myanmar 201550
201660
201750
201840
201950
202120
202270
202330
Total370

Honors and achievements

Club

2016 General Aung San Shield

International

Silver medal 28th Seagames

References
  1. Kyaw Zin Lwin at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. Kyaw Zin Lwin at Soccerway
  3. "Kyaw Zin Lwin". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  4. Phyo, Wai (18 August 2016). "GENERAL AUNG SAN SHIELD 2016 ခ်န္ပီယံဆုကို မေကြးအသင္း ပထမဆံုး အႀကိမ္ဆြတ္ခူး" [Magway FC won GENERAL AUNG SAN SHIELD for the first time]. Myanmar Media 7. Yangon. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  5. Hlaing, Kyaw Zin (18 August 2016). "Aung San Shield comes home to Magwe". MM times. Yangon. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  6. Football: Myanmar vs Indonesia 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 2 Jun 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  7. Lwin, Kyaw Zin (2 July 2015). "ျမန္မာယူ(၂၃) ေဘာလံုးအသင္းရဲ႕ ေနာက္တန္းကစားသမားေလး ေက်ာ္ဇင္လြင္". MCN Youth Programme (Interview). Interviewed by Hein Ko. MCN TV NEWS CHANNEL. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  8. Football: Singapore vs Myanmar 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 4 Jun 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  9. Football Philippines vs Myanmar (Jalan Besar stadium) 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 7 Jun 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  10. Football: Myanmar vs Cambodia 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 10 Jun 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  11. Football Final Thailand vs Myanmar 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  12. "Top 10 Goals Football Men - 28th SEA Games SINGAPORE 2015". WRITTENEPISODES.COM. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  13. "ေက်ာ္ဇင္လြင္ နဲ႕ၾကမ္းတမ္းလြန္းေသာ ေန႕ရက္ေတြ" [Kyaw Zin Lwin and Tough Times]. footballnewsmyanmar.blogspot.com. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  14. "Kyaw Zin Lwin - Myanmar U23 Footballer Tell About His Life on Facebook after successful campaign in Sea Games 2015 Singapore". PAPAWADY. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
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