Kyaw Zin Lwin
Kyaw Zin Lwin
Kyaw Zin Lwin
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.
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]
Despite the similar name, he is not related to either Kyaw Zin Htet or Kyaw Zin Phyo.
Charity
Club
International
References
1. Kyaw Zin Lwin (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/60242.html) at National-
Football-Teams.com
2. Kyaw Zin Lwin (https://int.soccerway.com/players/zin-lwin-kyaw/420186/) at Soccerway
3. "Kyaw Zin Lwin" (http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.kyaw.zin-lwin.265588.en.h
tml). footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
4. Phyo, Wai (18 August 2016). "GENERAL AUNG SAN SHIELD 2016 ခ်န္ပီယံဆုကို မေကြးအ
သင္း ပထမဆံုး အႀကိမ္ဆြတ္ခူး" (http://myanmarmedia7news.com/news/1373) [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" (http://www.
mmtimes.com/index.php/sports/22029-aung-san-shield-comes-home-to-magwe.html). MM
times. Yangon. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
6. Football: Myanmar vs Indonesia 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (https://m.youtube.com/w
atch?v=p4fURjfjdgI) (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 2 Jun 2015. Retrieved
27 November 2016.
7. Lwin, Kyaw Zin (2 July 2015). "ျမန္မာယူ(၂၃) ေဘာလံုးအသင္းရဲ႕ ေနာက္တ န္းကစားသ
မားေလး ေက်ာ္ဇင္လြင္" (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tmvOjtSZk). 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 (https://m.youtube.com/
watch?v=GO_9oCvYmxs) (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
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EQcH63x1ees) (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport
Singapore. 7 Jun 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
10. Football: Myanmar vs Cambodia 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (https://m.youtube.com/
watch?v=UmKQaslfzCo) (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. 10 Jun 2015.
Retrieved 27 November 2016.
11. Football Final Thailand vs Myanmar 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 (https://m.youtube.co
m/watch?v=TLlyLz01da0) (Motion picture). Singapore: Sport Singapore. Retrieved
27 November 2016.
12. "Top 10 Goals Football Men - 28th SEA Games SINGAPORE 2015" (http://www.writtenepiso
des.com/watch-video/lpUkQFGwoE4/Top%2010%20Goals%20%7C%20Football%20Men%
20-%2028th%20SEA%20Games%20SINGAPORE%202015/). WRITTENEPISODES.COM.
Retrieved 27 November 2016.
13. "ေက်ာ္ဇင္လြင္ နဲ႕ၾကမ္းတမ္းလြန္းေသာ ေန႕ရက္ေတြ" (http://footballnewsmyanmar.
blogspot.com/2015/06/blog-post_835.html?m=1) [Kyaw Zin Lwin and Tough Times].
footballnewsmyanmar.blogspot.com. 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" (http://www.papawady.com/2015/06/kyaw-zin-lwi
n-myanmar-u23-footballer.html?m=0). PAPAWADY. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
External links
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