Lang Zheng (; born 22 July 1986) is a retired

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footballer.

Club career

Lang Zheng started his football career when he joined

Beijing Guoan Beijing Guoan Football Club (), known in AFC competitions as Beijing FC, is a Chinese professional football club based in Beijing, that competes in . Beijing Guoan plays its home matches at the Workers' Stadium, located within Chaoyang Distr ...

in the 2006 season and would eventually make his debut against

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on 15 October 2006 in a 1–0 win, coming on as a late substitute. By the 2007 league season, he would continue to further establish himself within the team when he started his first league game on 16 June 2007 against

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, which Beijing lost 1–0. He would remain a squad regular until the 2009 league season when he would eventually break into the first team and help Beijing win the league title as well as also scoring his first goal against

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on 26 September 2009 in a 1–0 victory. After spending several seasons behind Xu Yunlong and Zhang Yonghai in the defense, then manager

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would promote youngsters

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and Yu Yang into the senior squad and after making only three appearances for the team during the 2011 league season, Lang was allowed to go on loan to

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during the season. Lang was brought in to help the club fight off relegation and he would go on to make his debut against

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on 10 July 2011 where he came on as a late substitute in a 1–0 win. He would make several further appearances for Nanchang and even scored a goal against

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in a 3–1 win on 23 October 2011 to help the club stay in the top tier. On 13 January 2017, Lang transferred to his hometown club Hebei China Fortune with his teammate Zhang Chengdong. He was then loaned to

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for the 2017 season on 22 January 2017. He made his debut for Liaoning on 3 March 2017 in a 1–1 away draw against

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. Lang returned to Hebei China Fortune in 2018 but failed to play for the club due to lingering injury. On 8 March 2019, Hebei China Fortune announced Lang's retirement and appointed him as the head of club's disciplinary committee.

International career

On 26 March 2011, Lang made his international debut in a 2–2 draw against

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in an experimental team that also saw

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, Lü Peng,

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, Ye Weichao and Zhang Xizhe make their first appearances.

Career statistics

Honours

Club

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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

Player profile
at Beijing Guoan website
Player stats
at Sohu.com * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lang, Zheng 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Baoding Chinese men's footballers Footballers from Hebei Men's association football midfielders China men's international footballers 21st-century Chinese sportsmen Beijing Guoan F.C. players Shanghai Shenxin F.C. players Hebei F.C. players Liaoning F.C. players Chinese Super League players