Chen Jianlong (; born 14 May 1989) is a professional Chinese footballer who currently plays as a defender for Meizhou Kejia in the

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Club career

Chen Jianlong would play for the Guangzhou Pharmaceutical youth team before going on loan to third-tier club

Guangdong Sunray Cave Shaanxi Wuzhou Football Club () was a Chinese professional football club based in Xi'an, Shaanxi which last played in the China League One division. The club was originally formed on February 5, 2007, as Guangdong Sunray Cave F.C. and was once ow ...

to being his senior career in the 2007 Chinese league season. With Guangdong, he would soon go on to establish himself as a regular within their side and by the 2008 league season he was already the captain of the team that won promotion to the second tier after the club came runners-up within the 2008 Chinese League Two division. By his third season, he had lost his captaincy to Joel, but established the club as mid-table regulars before he returned to Guangzhou in December 2009 after three seasons. Back at Guangzhou he would make his debut for them on 3 April 2010, in a 3–1 home win against

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. With Guangzhou, he would be part of the squad that won the 2010 Chinese League One division and promotion where he also won the

2011 Chinese Super League The 2011 Chinese Super League (also known as Pirelli Chinese Super League for sponsorship reasons) was the eighth season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, the eighteenth season of a Professional sports, professional association ...

title, however throughout this he would mainly play a small part as a squad player. To gain more playing time, Chen was loaned to

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side Shanghai Shenxin on 5 January 2012. Chen moved to

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side Meizhou Kejia in 2013.

Honours

Guangzhou Evergrande Guangzhou Football Club (), previously Guangzhou Evergrande (), was a Chinese professional football club based in Guangzhou, Guangdong. Historically, Guangzhou FC played its home matches at various grounds in their home city, most notably at T ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Meizhou Kejia *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Jianlong 1989 births Living people Chinese men's footballers Footballers from Maoming Guangzhou F.C. players Shaanxi Wuzhou F.C. players Shanghai Shenxin F.C. players Meizhou Hakka F.C. players Chinese Super League players China League One players 21st-century Chinese sportsmen Men's association football defenders