Xu Yang (footballer, born 1979)

Xu Yang
徐洋
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-06-05) 5 June 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder, Defender
Youth career
1994–1998 Shenyang Haishi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2007 Shenyang Haishi 103 (3)
2008–2010 Shanghai Shenhua 15 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 January 2010
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 January 2010
In this Chinese name, the family name is Xu.

Xu Yang (Chinese: 徐洋; pinyin: Xú Yáng) (born 5 June 1979 in Shenyang, Liaoning) is a former Chinese footballer who mainly played for Shenyang Haishi as a defender.

Club career

Shenyang Haishi

Xu Yang started his football career playing for was his local youth team Shenyang Haishi and would graduate to their senior team in the 1999 league season to begin his professional football career.[1] He would slowly establish himself as a squad regular until the 2001 league season when he played in 13 league games to establish himself within the squad.[2] The following seasons would see him as a first choice regular able to play as a defensive midfielder or a centre-back and when the club moved away from Shenyang to Changsha as well as renaming themselves Changsha Ginde, he would join them.

Shanghai Shenhua

After eight seasons with his previous club Xu would transfer to top tier football club Shanghai Shenhua as a reliable replacement for existing centre-back Li Weifeng half-way through the 2008 league season.[2] At the beginning of the 2009 league season the manager Jia Xiuquan would decide to make Du Wei and Yanko Valkanov as the preferred first choice centre back pair after they were chosen together in the club's debut game of the season against Singapore Armed Forces FC on 11 March 2009 in the 2009 AFC Champions League.[3] As the season progressed Xu would only make a handful appearances before being dropped to the reserve team in the 2010 league season before leaving.

References

  1. ^ "徐洋". data.sports.163.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Xú, Yáng". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  3. ^ "MATCH SUMMARY: SHANGHAI SHENHUA 4-1 SINGAPORE ARMED FORCES FC" (PDF). the-afc.com. 11 March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.