Li Wei (footballer, born 1975)

Li Wei (Chinese: 李伟; pinyin: Lǐ Wěi; Mandarin pronunciation: [lì wèɪ]; born May 5, 1975) is a Chinese football coach and former international player who played as a goalkeeper.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.
Li Wei
李伟
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-05-05) 5 May 1975
Place of birth Xi'an, China
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Shanghai Shenxin (goalkeeper coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1997 Foshan Fosti
1998–2004 Xiamen Lanshi 110 (0)
2005–2006 Guangzhou Pharmaceutical 29 (0)
2008 Anhui Jiufang 6 (0)
International career
2000 China 1 (0)
Managerial career
2009 Anhui Jiufang (goalkeeper coach)
2010–2014 China women's national team (goalkeeper coach)
2015– Shanghai Shenxin (goalkeeper coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

As a player he represented Foshan Fosti, Xiamen Lanshi before moving to Guangzhou Pharmaceutical and Anhui Jiufang. Since retiring he would move into goalkeeping coaching where he is now the goalkeeping coach at the Shanghai Shenxin of Chinese Super League.

Football career

Li Wei began his football career with second tier football club Foshan Fosti who was taken over by Xiamen Lanshi in the 1998 league season. At Xiamen he would go on to establish himself as the team's first choice goalkeeper and aid the team to win promotion to the top tier as well as the division title in 1999.[1] His impressive performances was considered good enough to be called up to the Chinese national team in 2000 by the Head coach Bora Milutinović who gave him his debut appearance on March 25, 2000 against Yugoslavia in a 2-0 defeat, this was to be his only international cap .[2] By the end of the season Xiamen were relegated, despite this Li Wei remained as team's first-choice goalkeeper for the next several seasons and aided the team to another second tier title in 2002 before leaving in 2005 for Guangzhou Sunray Cave in exchange for Han Feng.[3] He spent two seasons with them where he was unable to achieve promotion before ending his career with Anhui Jiufang.

Coach career

When the 2008 league season ended Li Wei announced his retirement from football, he decided to stay with Anhui Jiufang to become their goalkeeping coach.[4]

He was appointed as the goalkeeping coach of China women's national team on 29 August 2010.[5]

He became the goalkeeping coach of Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenxin in January 2015.[6]

Honours

As a player

Xiamen Lanshi

  • Chinese Jia B League: 1999,[1] 2002

References
  1. "China 1999". RSSSF. 2 Jul 2001. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  2. "China PR 0-2 Yugoslavia". teamchina.freehostia.com. 2000-05-25. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  3. "日之泉买人赚钱两不误 前国门"嫁妆"竟有50万". sports.sina.com.cn. 2005-01-29. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  4. "安徽备战09赛季提前冬训 悍将退役主力实力将提升". sports.sina.com.cn. 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  5. "新女足正式敲定守门员教练 米卢时代国门主入". sports.sina.com.cn. 2010-08-30. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
  6. "2015中超联赛上海申鑫30人报名名单". sports.qq.com. 2015-03-06. Retrieved 2015-03-30.
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