Chen Yongbin (; born 21 January 1999) is a Chinese
footballer
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currently playing as a
midfielder
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for
Qingdao Red Lions.
Club career
Having played amateur football in
Dezhou
Dezhou () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the southeast, Liaocheng to the southwest, Binzhou to the northeast, and the province of Hebei ...
and
Qingdao
Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...
, including playing
five-a-side football
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, Chen joined professional side
Qingdao Red Lions in 2018.
In October of the following year, he joined Australian side
Adelaide United
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on loan, being assigned to their youth team.
[ The move came under scrutiny from Australian media, who accused Adelaide United of ]tokenism
In sociology, tokenism is the social practice of making a perfunctory and symbolic effort towards the equitable inclusion of members of a minority group, especially by recruiting people from under-represented social-minority groups in order for th ...
, as they did not believe Chen was good enough to ever play for the side, as he had never played professionally before.
Chen's move to Australia was delayed, and he only arrived in early December 2019, nearly fifty days after the signing had been announced. He made his debut for Adelaide's youth team as a substitute in the Y-League
A-League Youth, formerly known as the National Youth League and Y-League is a defunct Australian national soccer youth developmental and under-21s league, founded by Football Federation Australia and later run by the Australian Professional Le ...
later in the same month, but only managed a further two substitute appearances, for a total of thirty-six minutes.[
He returned to China and the Qingdao Red Lions in October 2020, and went on to make his debut in the ]China League Two
The Chinese Football League 2 (), or China League Two, is the third-tier association football league of the People's Republic of China. The league is under the auspices of the Chinese Football Association and operated by the Chinese Professional ...
the following month, coming on as a second-half substitute for Deng Yu'nong in a 2–1 loss to Nanjing City
Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400.
Situated in the Yang ...
on 15 November.[
]
Career statistics
Club
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Yongbin
1999 births
Living people
Footballers from Qingdao
Chinese men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
China League Two players
21st-century Chinese sportsmen
Qingdao Red Lions F.C. players
Adelaide United FC players
Chinese expatriate men's footballers
Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Australia
Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia