Ahead of EACC Summer 2022, KenhTinGame had the opportunity to sit down with Bae, the captain of the ProGamer team, to listen to his sharing about himself as well as the upcoming goals of the whole team.
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Hi Bae, can you introduce yourself a little bit?
My name is Nguyen Vu Anh, 1987. The captain of ProGamer, nickname Bae. My main job is currently an engineer. I have a brother named Kun. And the word “Ba E” is also the first call when my child can speak, so I set it as my competition nickname.
What brought you to FO4 and what do you remember most from your career?
The football game is my passion. I’ve been playing since I was 5 years old. Experiencing a process of growing up with study, career, love and passion that continues with each year of growing up. Before, I used to play PES with my friends. When growing up, friends with wives / children / careers / families can no longer have off-kicks like before, that joy gradually fades.
So I wandered the internet and found Fifa Online as a way to rekindle my passion. And I follow from Fifa Online 3 until now. My football game life is also 30 years old.
The most memorable memory is probably the victory against TT Dimash, the game that brought the whole ProGamer team to EACC for the first time, which is EACC 2020.
Can you share about your formation and your forte? Tips to help rank up gamers can improve their rankings if using a squad like yours?
The diagram I often use is a very common diagram, 4-2-2-1-1 or 4-2-3-1. His forte kicking style is to hit the wing. However, now I’m playing with other ways of kicking, which are small bounces, long shots and brain-hacking dribbles. Because in the past, my kicking style messed up the opponent too much, so now people have taken the card to cross, just kick another one.
The trick is small but enough for everyone to improve their level, I honestly say this game is not difficult. You just don’t know how to improve. This game wants to buff the player, you should buff the player. The public is up to each person’s thinking, and the player in this game is True and False. You players are Right, you can’t lose. As for how you want to play correctly, watch how you play and change numbers.
Who is your favorite player (in game and in real life)?
My favorite player in the game is Pavel Nedved (always the 1st slot I pick in tournaments). In real life, I like Messi, of course, 1987 generation. However, in the game, they can’t build a monster player like Messi in real life, so Messi in the game is a bit lost.
Can you share your journey to EACC Summer 2022? Which match gives you the most unforgettable feeling?
The journey to EACC Summer 2022 is actually a relatively simple and easy journey, except for one match. I simply said that because my team had a training schedule and prepared carefully when it came to this season, it was natural to win, I was not surprised.
And the most difficult match, the new match Mercenary Gaming. MerG is actually ProGamer 2, a team of you also under ProGamer. It’s because we trained together a lot, so that match we were behind and I thought we had to break up here.
Honestly, that game was the final game of the last FVPL. I believe that if my junior MerG wins, they will also be the champion.
How have you prepared for EACC Summer 2022? More specifically, what is the process of training as well as studying the opponent?
Team ProGamer is a confident team that can beat any opponent despite being underrated. I watched Thai, Korean and Chinese selections. I found Thailand to be the teams with the most annoying kicking style – ball control + defense. Korea is the attacking team and China is the opposite – defensive team.
ProGamer is still researching and will come up with a reasonable plan when confronting each certain opponent. I know rival teams are still researching the VN selection tournament and researching ProGamer, but ProGamer coming to EACC Summer 2022 is an upgraded ProGamer version :D.
At the last EACC Spring, the Vietnamese representatives were not able to go as far as expected. What do you think is missing to help FO4 Vietnam rise up in the international arena?
What’s missing is that people don’t have the confidence to play like what they’ve been doing in Rank/Vietnam. But I see that the level of international friends is the same as that of Vietnam, not much different.
If we follow FO4 at the recent SEA Games, we can all agree that Thailand is extremely strong, especially Faze Clan. How do you rate their gameplay as well as their personnel? Can the representative of Vietnam take revenge in this tournament?
You can review EACC 2020, how ProGamer defeated FaZe Clan (Faze Clan is the defending international champion team for many recent seasons). And it seems that ProGamer is the only Vietnamese team to beat Faze in a survival match.
As I said above: ProGamer will overcome all, no matter how underrated the opponent. Faze is of course the top 1 team of fifa online, their level is one level above other teams. But to meet ProG is to lose :D.
What are your goals in this EACC tournament?
Champion, of course. Let’s see ProGamer as a model once for Vietnamese teams to see, international championship is not difficult.