Zou Jie (; born January 17, 1981, 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 ...

) is a former Chinese football player.

Club career

Zou Jie began his professional football career for Dalian Shide in the 2000 league season, making two appearances. He rose to prominence in the 2001 Chinese season when he played in 20 games, scoring 8 goals, playing a vital part in the title winning team and would personally win the Young player of the year award. Establishing himself as a first-choice regular within the team, he would win several more league titles and

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with Dalian, with the 2005 season being his most prolific when he scored 15 goals in 23 appearances. In the 2008 league season Dalian Shide would have an extremely unproductive season, which saw them flirt with relegation and this saw Xu Hong to come in as head coach, where he viewed Zou Jie as surplus to requirements, eventually leading to a loan deal to second-tier club Shenyang Dongjin during the 2009 league season. Zou returned to professional football in March 2017, joining

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club Hainan Boying.

International career

Zou Jie was called up to the senior national team on June 19, 2005, in a friendly against

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in a 2–2 draw. After several further friendlies Zou Jie would play his first competitive game against

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in an

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qualifier on February 22, 2006, that China won 2–0. This was then followed by another Asian Cup qualifier game against

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where China lost 2–1 on March 1, 2006. The Chinese Head coach Zhu Guanghu would deem Zou Jie's performances as unsatisfactorily and did not recall him in any further squads.

Honours

Club

Dalian Shide *

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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Individual

* CFA Young Player of the Year: 2001

References

External links

Player profile
at Sina.com *
Player stats
at Sohu.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Zou, Jie 1981 births Living people Chinese men's footballers Footballers from Dalian China men's international footballers 21st-century Chinese sportsmen Shaoxing Keqiao Yuejia F.C. players Dalian Shide F.C. players Shenyang Dongjin F.C. players Hainan Boying F.C. players Chinese Super League players China League One players Men's association football forwards