Hao Haidong

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Hao Haidong
郝海东
Personal information
Full name Hao Haidong
Date of birth August 25, 1970 (1970-08-25) (age 41)
Place of birth Qingdao, Shandong, China
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Striker
Youth career
1986 Bayi FC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1986–1996 Bayi FC 48 (19)
1997–2005 Dalian Wanda 130 (78)
2005–2007 Sheffield United 0 (0)
Total 178 (97)
National team
1992–2004 China 103 (37[1])
Teams managed
2004 Dalian Shide (Caretaker)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Hao.

Hao Haidong (simplified Chinese: 郝海东; traditional Chinese: 郝海東; pinyin: Hǎo Hǎidōng; born August 25, 1970) is the current chairman of Tianjin Songjiang F.C. and a former Chinese international football player who was widely regarded as the best striker China has ever produced. Hao holds the record for being China's all-time leader in goals scored. He would predominantly gain the majority of his goals during his time with top tier side Dalian Wanda where he would see the club dominate Chinese football and win six Chinese league titles while personally winning the Chinese Football Association Golden Boot three times. Internationally, his goals would be crucial to China in which the country qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup for the first time and became runners-up in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup. While still playing he would also take on the management position at Dalian as a caretaker before moving to English club Sheffield United for a short time before he retired.

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[edit] Club career

[edit] Bayi FC

Hao Haidong would make a name for himself rising through the ranks with Bayi FC and would personally see his career flourish with the advent of full professionalism within China where he would sharpern his skills as a prolific striker. While his personal performances with Bayi remained impressive for the team the club were not genuine title contenders and he would transfer to reigning league champions Dalian Wanda at the beginning of the 1997 league season for a club record fee of 2.2 million Yuan at the time.[2]

[edit] Dalian Wanda

His move would be a huge success and he would win the 1997 league title and Chinese Super Cup as well as also personally winning the Chinese Football Association Golden Boot and Golden Ball award.[3] The following season would continue to add to his medal collection with another league title, more personal awards and justed missed out winning the 1997–98 Asian Club Championship as well.[4] While Hao would be applauded for his football achievements and even start to be compared to the "Chinese Alan Shearer", he would also show a darker aspect of his game by being fined 1000 USD for attacking a player on March 15, 1998 and was suspended for two games, this would also be followed by a year suspension by the Asian Football Confederation for spitting at a referee during an Asian Cup Winners' Cup tie.[5] Due to the suspension Hao would miss much of the 1999 league season, however this wouldn't hinder him at all and his prolific goalscoring would continue to see him win several more league titles, a Chinese FA Cup and a 2000–01 Asian Cup Winners' Cup runners-up medal.[6] His stature within Dalian would be so high that when the clubs manager Milorad Kosanović left the club in 2004 Hao was immediately brought in as a caretaker to manage the team.

[edit] Sheffield United

On January 2005, Hao was nearing the end of his career and had a chance to go abroad to second tier English Football League Championship football club Sheffield United who were increasingly interested in gaining access to the Far East's potentially lucrative footballing market and saw Hao as a symbolic first step in achieveing this. Dalian would release him as a gesture of goodwill following his record of good service towards the club, Sheffield United as a sign goodwill decided to make the transfer symbolic when Hao joined them for a record fee for being the cheapest ever transfer fee, joining from Dalian Shide for a pound in 2005.[7] This record was broken in 2007, when Chelsea paid a symbolic 1€ buy-out clause to purchase Brazilian defender Alex from PSV, where he was playing until he could get a work permit to play in England. Although transferred to the Sheffield outfit in January 2005, he made little impact, suffering from injury, and worked mainly as a coach at the Academy. Sheffield United Football Club would take a step further in their interests in Chinese football by purchasing Chengdu Blades and Hao returned back to China with them, however this move was mainly for coaching, which saw Hao decide to retire from playing.

[edit] International career

He played over 100 times, including the 2002 FIFA World Cup for the Chinese national team, and is the record goalscorer with 37 goals for his country. Hao is known for his extraordinary pace and goal scoring instincts as a striker. He is widely considered to be the best striker in China in the past two decades.

[edit] International goals

Scores and results list China's goal tally first.
* Disputed goal or may not be officially recognized as FIFA-sanctioned matches.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Club

Dalian Shide

[edit] Country

[edit] Individual

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/hao-intlg.html
  2. ^ http://sports.163.com/special/00052G99/dongdonghao.html
  3. ^ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/china97.html
  4. ^ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/ascup98.html
  5. ^ http://www.runsky.com/homepage/english/spor/vip/userobject1ai421802.html
  6. ^ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/ascup01.html#cwc
  7. ^ http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/24/content_403004.htm

[edit] External links

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