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Wuhan F.C.
Wuhan Yangtze River Football Club, formerly Wuhan Zall Football Club (), was a Chinese professional Association football, football club that participated in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team was based in Wuhan, Hubei and their home stadium was the Dongxihu Sports Centre that has a seating capacity of 30,000. Their current majority shareholder is the investment company Wuhan Zall Development Holding Co. Ltd. The club was founded in 2009 after the withdrawal and then dissolution of its predecessor Wuhan Optics Valley. They entered at the start of the 2009 China League Two, 2009 league campaign at the bottom of the professional Chinese football league pyramid. The team won promotion to the 2013 Chinese Super League after coming runners-up in the 2012 China League One, and spent only one season in the top flight before being relegated back down. In 2018, the team won the 2018 China League One, League One again and earned their ...
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ...
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Shandong Luneng Taishan F
Shandong is a coastal province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural and religious center for Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism. Shandong's Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and a site with one of the longest histories of continuous religious worship in the world. The Buddhist temples in the mountains south of the provincial capital of Jinan were once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu was the birthplace of Confucius, and later became the center of Confucianism. Shandong's location at the intersection of ancient and modern north–south and east–west trading routes has helped establish it as an economic center. After a period of political instability and economic hardship beginning in the late 19th century, Shandong has experienced rapid growth in recent decades. Home to over ...
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Tang Yaodong
Tang Yaodong (; born 17 February 1962 in Shenyang, China) is a Chinese football manager and former Chinese international footballer. He mainly played as a centre forward for Liaoning FC. Playing career Club career Tang Yaodong began his football career playing for his hometown football club Liaoning's youth team and would later graduate to the senior team in the 1983 league season. After several seasons he would later rise to prominence when he would help them win the 1985 league title. This was to be the first of many trophies that were to follow and Tang Yaodong would play an integral part in a dominant Liaoning team that also saw them win the 1990 Asian Club Championship. Despite winning another league title he would transfer to a second tier Japanese club Otsuka Pharmaceutical in the 1992 league season. After only one season with them he would return to Liaoning FC until he retired. International career Tang Yaodong would make his senior debut in a friendly against Ko ...
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Ciro Ferrara
Ciro Ferrara (; born 11 February 1967) is an Italian former footballer and manager. Ferrara spent his playing career as a defender, initially at Napoli and later on at Juventus, winning seven total Serie A titles as well as other domestic and international trophies. His most recent position was as manager of Wuhan Zall. He had also previously coached Juventus and the Italy national under-21 team. As an assistant coach to Marcello Lippi, he won the 2006 FIFA World Cup with Italy. At international level, he earned 49 caps for the Italian national team and represented the team at the 1988 Summer Olympics, at two UEFA European Championships, in 1988 and 2000, and at the 1990 World Cup. Club career Napoli A native of Naples, Ferrara began his career with the youth system of hometown club Napoli in 1980. He graduated the ''primavera'' youth squad in 1984, and began to earn first team call-ups that season. He made 14 total appearances with the club in his first full season. Th ...
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Zheng Bin
Zheng Bin (; born July 4, 1977) is a Chinese football coach and a former international who played as a left midfielder or striker. As a player he represented Shenzhen Jianlibao, Wuhan Huanghelou and Wuhan Zall while internationally he played for the Chinese national team that participated in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup. Since retiring he moved into management, and gained his first head coaching position with Wuhan Zall. Club career Early career As with all the most promising young Chinese players Zheng Bin would quickly be included in the short-lived Chinese national youth team program to study football abroad in a training programme sponsored by Jianlibao and called the Chinese Jianlibao Youth Football Team. After graduating through the Jianlibao Youth Team he would return to his hometown to play for Wuhan Hongjinlong to start his professional football career. In his debut season he would play six games in his debut season. He would then go on to play in the majority of Wuh ...
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Dražen Besek
Dražen Besek (born 10 March 1963) is a Croatian football coach and a former professional football midfield player. As a player he spent most of his career playing for Croatian teams Varteks and Dinamo Zagreb before moving abroad and appearing for clubs in France, Denmark and Austria. After his playing career ended he went into management, and had several coaching spells at his hometown football club Varteks, before moving abroad again and joining Polish side Zagłębie Lubin, Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua and many others. Club career In Croatia, Besek played for Dinamo Zagreb in the Yugoslav First League and Varteks in the Croatian First Football League. In his international career, he played in French Stade de Vallauris, Danish Ikast FS (now called FC Midtjylland) and Austrian SV Casino Salzburg (now called FC Red Bull Salzburg) Coaching career Besek started his coaching career in his hometown football club of Varteks as a player-coach within the Croatian 1998–99 Pr ...
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Wang Jun (footballer, Born 1964)
Wang Jun may refer to: Political and military *Wang Jun (Jin dynasty) (王濬) (206–286), Chinese general of the Jin Dynasty *Wang Jun (Pengzu) Wang Jun (252 – 4 April 314), courtesy name Pengzu, was a military general and warlord who lived during the Western Jin dynasty of China. By the time of Sima Lun's usurpation of the Jin throne he was established as a military commander in You ... (王浚 (彭祖)) (252–314), Chinese general of the Jin Dynasty, and governor of Youzhou * Wang Jun (Tang chancellor) (王晙) (died 732), Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty * Wang Jun (Later Zhou chancellor) (王峻) (902–953), Chinese chancellor of the Later Zhou Dynasty * Wang Jun (politician, born 1952) (王君), Chinese politician, party chief of Inner Mongolia, former governor of Shanxi * Wang Jun (politician, born 1958) (王军), Chinese politician, director of the State Administration of Taxation Businessmen * Wang Jun (businessman) (王军) (born 1941), Chinese businessman ...
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Li Xiao (footballer)
Li Xiao is a Chinese football forward who played for China in the 1992 Asian Cup. He also played for Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the .... Career statistics International statistics External linksTeam China Stats {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Xiao 1967 births Living people Chinese men's footballers Chinese football managers Shanghai Shenhua F.C. players Wuhan Optics Valley F.C. players China men's international footballers Footballers from Shanghai 1992 AFC Asian Cup players Shanghai Shenxin F.C. managers Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Men's association football forwards Wuhan Yangtze River F.C. managers Footballers at the 1994 Asian Games 20th-century Chinese sportsmen Asian Games silver medalists i ...
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Li Jun (football Manager)
Li Jun or Jun Li may refer to: *Emperor Suzong of Tang (711–762), personal name Li Jun, emperor of the Tang dynasty * Li Jun (diplomat) (1892–1948), diplomat of the Republic of China * Li Jun (politician) (born 1962), Chinese politician, deputy party chief of Hainan * Jun Li (director) (born 1991), director of the 2021 film '' Drifting'' * Li Jun (director, born 1922) (1922−2013), Chinese director *Li Jun Li, American actress * Li Jun (geoscientist) (born 1982), Chinese geoscientist * Jun Li (mathematician), Chinese mathematician * Jun Li (chemist) (born 1966), distinguished professor of chemistry *Baoshu Li Jun (; born 1980), known by the pen name Baoshu (), is a Chinese science fiction and fantasy writer. One of his books, ''Three Body X'' (published as ''The Redemption of Time'' in English), is a sequel to '' Death's End'' by Liu Cixin. Baoshu ... (born 1980), born Li Jun, Chinese science fiction writer * Li Jun (''Water Margin''), fictional character from the novel ''Wa ...
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Yao Hanlin
Yao Hanlin (, born 16 April 1985 in Wuhan) is a retired Chinese professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent almost his entire playing career at his hometown Wuhan, first at Wuhan Guanggu from 2004 to their disbandment in 2008, and then Wuhan Zall from 2010 to 2022, where he served as long-time captain for the latter. Club career Yao Hanlin began his professional football career in 2004 when he was promoted to the senior team of second tier club Wuhan Guanggu by Head coach Pei Encai and was part of the squad that won the division title and promotion to the top tier. The following seasons he would gain more playing time and was often deployed as a substitute until the team were disbanded during the 2008 league season after the club had a dispute with the Chinese Football Association over their on-field behaviour after the club's management did not accept the punishment given to them by the Chinese Football Association after a scuffle broke out during a leag ...
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Chengdu Rongcheng
Chengdu Rongcheng Football Club () is a Chinese professional football club based in Chengdu, Sichuan, that competes in . Chengdu Rongcheng plays its home matches at the Phoenix Hill Football Stadium, located within Jinniu District. The club's founder and their majority shareholder is Chengdu Better City Investment Group Co., Ltd. The name ''Rongcheng'' derives from the Chinese expression literally translated as 'Hibiscus City', one of the nicknames for the city of Chengdu. History The club was founded as Chengdu Better City Football Club on 20 March 2018, by Chengdu Better City Investment Group Co., Ltd. on the ashes of the dissolved Chengdu Qbao. With the support of the Chengdu Football Association and the appointment of José Carlos Granero as their head coach, the club would start their journey playing within the Chengdu FA Champions League. After winning the division, the club would participate within the 2018 Chinese Champions League, where they came runners-up to Taizho ...
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Hebei China Fortune F
Hebei is a province in North China. It is China's sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It borders Shanxi to the west, Henan to the south, Shandong and Liaoning to the east, and Inner Mongolia to the north; in addition, Hebei entirely surrounds the direct-administered municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin on land. Its population is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and 0.3% Mongol. Varieties of Chinese spoken include Jilu Mandarin, the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, and Jin Chinese. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (771–226 BC), the region was ruled by the states of Yan and Zhao. During the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), the region was called Zhongshu. It was called North Zhili during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), and simply Zhili during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). The modern province of Hebei was created in 1928. Five UNESCO World Heritage Sites can be found in ...
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