Zang Haili ( zh, c=臧海利, p=Zāng Hǎilì; born 19 December 1978) is a Chinese assistant

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coach and a former professional player.

Club career

Zang Haili was born in

Changchun Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin, Jilin Province, China, on the Songliao Plain. Changchun is administered as a , comprising seven districts, one county and three county-level cities. At the 2020 census of China, Changchun ha ...

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. He graduated through the youth system of

Bayi Football Team The Bayi or August First Football Team (), known fully as the People's Liberation Army Bayi Football Club (), was a football team under the sport branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that played in China's football league system between 19 ...

and would break into the senior team during the 1997 league season. While he was establishing himself within the team, he saw them relegated at the end of the 1998 league season, however he stayed with the team to aid them in their promotion at the end of the 2000 league season back to the top tier. He continued to be a vital member for Bayi until they disbanded at the end of the 2003 league season. Without a club he would join

Liaoning FC Liaoning Football Club (), officially known as Liaoning Hongyun (), was a professional association football club with a long history in Chinese football. The club can predate their formation to 1953, when Shenyang government sports body joined ex ...

where he immediately made himself a regular within their defence for the next several seasons, however at the end of the 2008 league season he was unable to help them fight off relegation. While Zang Haili was tempted to return to his hometown and join

Changchun Yatai F.C. Changchun Yatai Football Club () is a Chinese professional football club based in Changchun, Jilin, that competes in . Changchun Yatai plays its home matches at the Changchun Stadium, located within Nanguan District. The club's founder and main i ...

he decided to stay with the club and help the team to win the second tier title.

Club career stats

Honours

Liaoning FC *

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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

1978 births Living people Footballers from Changchun Chinese men's footballers Chinese football managers Liaoning F.C. managers Bayi Football Team players Liaoning F.C. players Chinese Super League players China League One players 21st-century Chinese sportsmen Men's association football defenders {{PRChina-footy-defender-stub