Ludovic Casset | |
Birth Date: | 10 July 1978[1] |
Birth Place: | France |
Height: | 1.81 m |
Position: | Defensive midfielder |
Youthclubs1: | FC Sens |
Youthyears1: | 1988– |
Youthclubs2: | Auxerre |
Years1: | –2002 |
Clubs1: | Auxerre II |
Years2: | 2003–2006 |
Clubs2: | Đà Nẵng |
Ludovic Casset (born 1978), who has also gone by the Vietnamese name Mã Trí, is a French-Vietnamese former footballer.
Casset was a youth member of FC Sens (France) and played at U15, winning the National Cup in 1994, and at U17 at the national level. At age 20, Casset injured his anterior cruciate ligament. In 2002, he signed for AJ Auxerre and played mostly with the reserve teams.
In 2004, he was invited by the Vietnam Football Federation and became the first overseas Vietnamese to train with the Vietnam national football team, ahead of the 2004 Tiger Cup. However, he could not obtain his nationality in time and was not selected for the final squad.
Shortly after training with the Vietnam national team, he received an offer from V.League 1 club Đà Nẵng FC, where he participated in the AFC Champions League and remained until 2006. After returning to France for trials, he injured his other knee and concluded his career as a player.
Casset is now based in Singapore and, since 2012, has been the director of Étoile FC.