Deng Zhuoxiang (, born 24 October 1988) is a Chinese former

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who played as a

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. He is caretaker head coach of Wuhan Three Towns.

Club career

Deng Zhuoxiang started his football career in the 2005 league season playing for Wuhan Optics Valley; however, he would have to wait until the 2006 league season to make his debut against Tianjin Teda on 12 July 2006 in a 4–3 loss. Throughout the season, he would steadily establish himself within the squad by playing in 10 league games, though this was often as a substitute. By the 2007 league season, Deng would establish himself within the team and even score his first goal against Qingdao Jonoon in a 1–0 win on 27 March 2007. While now a regular starter for Wuhan, he found that they were controversially relegated then subsequently disbanded during the 2008 season after the club's management did not accept the punishment given to them by the

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after a scuffle broke out during a match against

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on 27 September 2008. Without a club, Deng would be loaned to the newly promoted Jiangsu Sainty by Hubei F.A. at the beginning of the 2009 league season. He would go on to play in 29 league games in the season, scoring five goals and providing six assists. On 4 December 2009, he was named as the Chinese Football Association Young Player of the Year and would then transfer to Shandong Luneng shortly after. He would go on to make his debut on 24 February 2010 against

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in an

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game that Shandong won 1–0. In his debut season for Shandong, he would have to fight for his position against Wang Yongpo; however, he quickly established himself as an integral member of the team and aid the club to the 2010 league title by the end of his first season. Deng transferred back to Jiangsu on 6 February 2012. However, Deng did not play during the 2012 season, missing out after doctors found fractured bone fragments in his knee. He was flown to Germany to get surgery and recover for most of the season. Deng finally made his debut for Jiangsu in the final game of the season, coming off the bench in a 1–1 draw against Guangzhou R&F. He would miss the beginning of the 2013 season with a fear of a possible leg inflammation. Deng returned in his first appearance of the season on 22 June 2013 in a 2–1 win against Shandong Luneng. He scored his first goal for Jiangsu on 19 October 2013 against Shandong in a 1–1 draw. On 16 February 2015, Deng transferred to fellow Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua. He made his debut for the club on 8 March 2015 in a 6–2 win against Shanghai Shenxin. Throughout the season Deng was limited to only three games after his 2012 knee injury made a recurrence. It was discovered that there was fragments of cartilage causing him discomfort and he needed more surgery on his knee. On 22 February 2017, Deng was loaned to China League One side Qingdao Huanghai until 31 December 2017. On 28 February 2018, Deng transferred to China League One side Beijing Enterprises Group. On 5 August 2020, Wuhan Three Towns announced his joining. In his first season with the club he would go on to aid them in winning the division title and promotion into the second tier. This would be followed by another division title win and promotion as the club entered the top tier for the first tine in their history. The following campaign he would be part of the squad that won the 2022 Chinese Super League title.

International career

Deng made his international debut on 18 July 2009 in a 3–1 win against

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. He would go on to be mainly used in friendlies until he was given a run of games in the 2010 East Asian Football Championship. On 10 February 2010, he scored his first goal in a 3–0 win against

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and help China beat them for the first time, ending the team's Koreaphobia. On 4 June 2010, Deng scored from a direct free kick in a 1–0 win against

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, condemning the latter to a shock defeat.

Career statistics

Club statistics

''Statistics accurate as of match played 11 January 2023.''邓卓翔
at sodasoccer Retrieved 2015-11-29

International goals

:''Results list China's goal tally first.''

Honours

Shandong Luneng * Chinese Super League:

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 ...

Wuhan Three Towns * Chinese Super League:

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

. * China League One:

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

* China League Two:

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

China U17 * AFC U-17 Championship:

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

China * East Asian Football Championship:

Individual *

Young Player of the Year:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

References

External links

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Player profile
at Sohu.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Deng, Zhuoxiang 1988 births Living people Footballers from Wuhan Chinese men's footballers China men's international footballers 21st-century Chinese sportsmen Wuhan Optics Valley F.C. players Jiangsu F.C. players Shandong Taishan F.C. players Shanghai Shenhua F.C. players Qingdao F.C. players Beijing Sport University F.C. players Wuhan Three Towns F.C. players 2011 AFC Asian Cup players Chinese Super League players China League One players Men's association football midfielders