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Dat Tan Nguyen (/ ˌ d æ t ˈ w ɪ n /; Vietnamese: Nguyễn Tấn Đạt, pronounced [ŋʷjə̌ˀn tə̌n ɗàːt]; born September 25, 1975) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for seven seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL).
Ed Wang was the first full-blooded Chinese player to both be drafted and to play in the NFL [16] after the AFL–NFL merger, Edward was a former American football offensive tackle and played college football at Virginia Tech and was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the 2010 NFL Draft.
In 2021, former player and assistant coach Eugene Chung said he was told in an interview for a coaching job that Asian Americans were “not the right minority" to lead the NFL, even though the ...
And yet, in 2019-20, players of Asian descent made up only 0.7% of NCAA Division I women’s basketball players; 0.4% of Division I men’s basketball players; and 0.3% of Division I football players.
Younghoe Koo (Korean: 구영회; RR: Gu Yeonghoe; [1] pronounced / ˈ j ʌ ŋ w eɪ /; YUNG-way; [2] born August 3, 1994) is a South Korean-American professional football placekicker for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was named to the Pro Bowl in 2020 after leading the league in scoring that year.
They were part of the Nesser Brothers, one of American football's most famous families of the early 20th century. [7] Canadian Tommy Hughitt, player-coach for the Buffalo All-Americans. A star quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines football team before joining the NFL, he was named to the 1922 All-Pro Team by George Halas. [8]
He is the first Asian-American head coach in any of the four major North American sports leagues. [89] [90] 2010: Rich Cho becomes the first Asian-American general manager of an NBA team, the Portland Trail Blazers. [91] 2019: Jeremy Lin becomes the first Asian-American NBA Champion. [92]