Chencho Nio
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Chencho Nio | ||
| Date of birth | 2 October 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Thimphu, Bhutan | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Luangmual F.C. | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2004 | Druk Star | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2011 | Yeedzin | ||
| 2011–2012 | Royal Wahingdoh | 18 | (4) |
| 2012– | Luangmal | 10 | (1) |
| National team | |||
| 2009– | Bhutan | 10 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Chencho Nio (born 2 October 1985) is a Bhutanese international footballer, who currently plays for Luangmual in the I-League 2nd Division, the second tier of football in India. Having played in Bhutan for a number of years, he became the first Bhutanese player to become a full-time player when he moved to Royal Wahingdoh in 2010. He made his first appearance for the Bhutan national football team in 2009.
Chencho began his playing career at the age of seventeen for Druk Star in the Bhutan A-Division in 2002. Druk Star had two mediocre seasons while Chencho was playing for them finishing fifth in 2003 following an unknown placing the previous season.
He moved to Yeedzin in 2004. In his first four seasons with Yeedzin, the club was very much a mid table team during a period in which Transport United dominated domestic football in Bhutan. in 2008 Yeedzin produced their best performance to that point and Chencho was part of the team that won both the league and cup. They finished the league season unbeaten, four points ahead of runners-up Transport United, dropping points in only two games, including a 1-1 draw with Choden FC, the Bhutan U-19 team whilst also beating Rigzung 20-0 in the second half of the season. They won the 2008 A-Division Knock-Out Tournament, beating Royal Bhutan Army 4-3 in the final.
The following season, despite scoring more goals than any other team and more than the bottom half of the table managed combined and with scorelines of 10-2, 20-0 and 16-1 against Rigzung and Druk Athletic twice respectively, they were unable to retain their league title in the 2009 season, losing three games throughout the course of the season and finishing five points behind Druk Star, who ended the season unbeaten. They were equally unfortunate in the Club Cup Championship. Despite beating Nangpa 12-0 in the quarter finals and Choden 4-1 in the semi-finals, they lost 0-1 to Druk Star in the final as the mirrored what Yeedzin had achieved the previous season.
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