Vietnamese football striker Le Cong Vinh was voted the best player in Southeast Asia in an online voting contest organized by sports online newspaper Goal, according to state-run Voice of Vietnam.

Vinh, who won Vietnam's Golden Ball award three times, beat 20 nominees from other Southeast Asian countries to win the award.

He got a total of 68.6 percent of votes in favor, far exceeding the second placed Khim Borey of Cambodia who just gained 29.3 percent of votes, and the third placed Shahril Ishak of Singapore with 1.2 percent of votes.

Vinh won great support from his fans after he signed a contract for his home FC Song Lam Nghe An team during this football season. He is now V-League's top scorer with 14 goals.

The 2012-2013 Southeast Asia Award is said to motivate Vinh to perform well in Japan under a loan contract with Japan's FC Consadole Sapporo in the last four months of the 2012-2013 J-League football season.

In 2009, Vinh played for Portugal's Leixoes FC but had little chance to appear in the lineup.