Runze Hao ( zh, 郝润泽, born 3 May 1997) is a Chinese

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a defender. The last team that he played for was Radnički Niš in the

Serbian SuperLiga The Serbian Super League (), also known as Mozzart SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Serbia and the highest level of the Serbian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a sys ...

. He is the son of

Hao Haidong Hao Haidong (; born 9 May 1970) is a Chinese former international footballer. He currently holds the record for being China's top goalscorer. As a player he represented Bayi Football Team, Dalian Shide and Sheffield United in a career that ...

, who is the all-time top scorer of the Chinese national team.

Career

Born in

Dalian Dalian ( ) is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang ...

, he played in the youth team of

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 ...

before he moved abroad in 2013 and joined the youth team of Spanish side

Albacete Albacete ( , , ) is a city and municipality in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, and capital of the province of Albacete. Lying in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, the area around the city is known as Los Llan ...

where he played two seasons. In 2015, he joined Croatian side

NK Lokomotiva Zagreb Nogometni klub Lokomotiva Zagreb (), commonly known as Lokomotiva Zagreb or simply Lokomotiva, is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. It competes in the Croatian First Football League, the country's top division. Founded in 19 ...

where, after spending a season playing with youth team, he was upgraded to the main team, but failed to make a debut. In 2017, he signed with Spanish side

Recreativo Granada Club Recreativo Granada is a Spanish football team based in Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1947, it is the reserve team of Granada CF and currently plays in , holding home games at ''Estadio Miguel Prieto'', with a ...

playing most of the time with their reserves team while there. He also spent half season on loan with Portuguese side

Louletano D.C. Louletano Desportos Clube is a Portugal, Portuguese club from Loulé, founded on 6 June 1923. The association football team currently play in the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores (Portuguese fourth level), D series. The club plays at the Estádio ...

in 2019 before returning to Granada and being signed in summer 2019 by Serbian side Radnički Niš. He made his debut in the

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on 31 May 2020, with a goal. Hao started for Radnički Niš in the

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quarter final against

FK Čukarički Fudbalski klub Čukarički () is a Serbian professional football club from Belgrade, more precisely from the Čukarica municipality, that currently plays in the Serbian SuperLiga, the top tier of Serbian football. Founded in 1926, the club spe ...

on 4 June 2020. He was replaced by Uroš Miloradović at half time.FK Čukarički - FK Radnički Niš
at SofaScore Radnički Niš lost the game 2-3. On 9 June 2020, it was confirmed that Hao was released by Radnički Niš. Amid media speculations that Hao was released due to

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from China, Radnički Niš denied the speculations and claimed that Hao left the club after his contract expired on May 30 despite appearing in two matches the following days after.

References

1997 births Living people Footballers from Dalian Chinese men's footballers Chinese expatriate men's footballers 21st-century Chinese sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Beijing Guoan F.C. players NK Lokomotiva Zagreb players Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia Albacete Balompié players Club Recreativo Granada players Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Louletano D.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal FK Radnički Niš players Serbian SuperLiga players Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia {{PRChina-footy-midfielder-stub