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Li Weifeng
Personal information
Full name Li Weifeng
Date of birth (1978-12-01) December 1, 1978 (age 45)
Place of birth Changchun, Jilin, China
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 Tianjin Teda
Number 5
Youth career
1990–1995 Tianjin Locomotive
1996–1998 Shenzhen Youth
1998 Tianjin Locomotive
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2002 Shenzhen 92 (4)
2002–2003 Everton 1 (0)
2003–2005 Shenzhen 59 (4)
2006–2008 Shanghai Shenhua 49 (8)
2008 Wuhan Guanggu 2 (0)
2009–2010 Suwon Bluewings 48 (2)
2011– Tianjin Teda 24 (1)
International career‡
1998– China 114 (14)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  China
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Bangkok Football
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of November 2, 2011
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of November 15, 2011

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Li Weifeng (Chinese: 李玮峰Lǐ Wěifēng; born December 1, 1978 in Changchun, Jilin) is a Chinese football defender who currently plays for Tianjin Teda. He has represented the Chinese national football team over 100 times. He also played in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Li is a central defender and is known for his heading ability, which earned him the nickname "Da Tou" (Big Head). Aside from his soccer skills, Li is also involved in various off-the-field controversies, such as him earning two red cards for the Chinese team in the 2005 East Asian Invitation, as well as allegedly forcing out manager Chi Shangbin in Shenzhen Jianlibao, earning him the nickname "Qiu Ba" (soccer bully).[citation needed]

Club career

Li has previously played for Shenzhen Ping'an and had a short trial at English side Everton immediately after the 2002 World Cup, as part of an Everton deal with Chinese sponsor Kejian. However, Li was unable to convince the Everton coaching team for a permanent deal and returned to Shenzhen Jianlibao.

In the beginning of 2006, Li Weifeng left Shenzhen Jianlibao due to the club's financial difficulties, and followed many of his fellow stars out of the club. Shanghai Shenhua bought him for 6 million Renminbi Yuan, despite reported interest from Serie A team Fiorentina.

In 2008, Li transferred from Shanghai Shenhua to Wuhan Guanggu due to a lack of playing time in the Chinese Super League runner-up, reuniting him with manager Zhu Guanghu, who also coached him in the Brazil youth team, Chinese national team, as well as Shenzhen Ping'an. Soon after the 3.5 million transfer, however, Li was involved in an on field incident, which resulted in him being suspended for 8 games by the Chinese Football Association. Already on the verge of relegation, Wuhan Guanggu amounted protests against this ruling, which the club deemed to be unjust and extremely damaging to its chance to survive in the top flight. After its efforts were proven to be futile, Wuhan Guanggu withdrew from the league and was automatically relegated, and Li was without games for the rest of the season.

Because of Wuhan Guanggu's withdrawal, most of its non-local and highly paid players were put on the transfer list at the end of the season, Li among them. Because of his reputation, high wage demand, gigantic transfer fee, and the still unserved 8 game suspension, Li was a hard commodity to move despite being perceived as heads and shoulders above rest of the Chinese defenders. But the new AFC Champions League rule came to his rescue, as it allowed all tournaments participants to have one Asian foreign player. Attracting heavy interests from both the Japanese and Korean league, Li moved to Suwon Samsung Bluewings of K-League in January 2009, for a 2-years contract as reported $400,000 USD[citation needed], reuniting him with another one of his former manager. Some pundits suggested that Li moved on a free transfer because Wuhan Guanggu's withdrawal made all of its players free agents under FIFA rules (though not under Chinese rules); however, Wuhan Guanggu immediately released statements announcing its intention to obstruct the move if itlef was not at least partly remunerated,and media reports have stated that Li will pay his former club himself in order to play for the Korean outfit.[1][2]

Li was sent-off in his first game for Suwon Samsung Bluewings against Sparta Prague in Hong Kong[3] Li, however, redeemed himself in his second official game with the Suwon Samsung Bluewings in a AFC Champions League 2009 match against Kashima Antlers by scoring the opening goal. The game ended 4-1 for the Suwon Samsung Bluewings.

Li returned to China and signed a contract with Tianjin Teda on 18 January 2011.[4]

International career

Li made his first appearance for the China national football team on 22 November 1998, in a friendly match against Korea Republic.[5]

Li was promoted to team captain by the manager Arie Haan in 2003.

In September 2006, he was thrown of the Chinese national football team for hitting a player and hence earning his sixth red card in 14 months during an AFC Champions League game with Shanghai Shenhua. His captain position in the national team was later assigned to Zheng Zhi.

Club career statistics

As of 19 November 2011

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International goals

Results list China's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 December 12, 1998 Thailand Bangkok  Oman 5-0 6-1 1998 Asian Games
2 January 26, 2000 Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City  Guam 4-0 19-0 2000 AFC Asian Cup qualification
3 September 3, 2000 China Shanghai  Iraq 1-0 4-1 Friendly match
4 September 3, 2000 China Shanghai  Iraq 3-1 4-1 Friendly match
5 April 22, 2001 China Xi'an  Maldives 10-1 10-1 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
6 May 13, 2001 China Kunming  Indonesia 1-1 5-1 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
7 September 7, 2001 Qatar Doha  Qatar 1-1 1-1 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
8 September 15, 2001 China Shenyang  Uzbekistan 1-0 2-0 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
9 February 16, 2003 China Wuhan  Estonia 1-0 1-0 Friendly match
10 November 17, 2004 China Guangzhou  Hong Kong 7-0 7-0 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
11 February 22, 2006 China Guangzhou  Palestine 2-0 2-0 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification
12 October 21, 2007 China Foshan  Myanmar 7-0 7-0 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
13 May 25, 2008 China Kunshan  Jordan 2-0 2-0 Friendly match
14 November 15, 2011 Singapore Singapore  Singapore 2-0 4-0 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Club

Shenzhen Jianlibao

Shanghai Shenhua

Suwon Bluewings

Tianjin Teda

Country

China

References

  1. ^ "수원, 중국 대표팀 수비수 리웨이펑과 2년 계약" (in Korean). Yahoo!. 2009-01-22.
  2. ^ "Li Weifeng is Suwon bound". FIFA. 2009-02-12.
  3. ^ "거친 플레이 리웨이펑 '우려가 현실로?'" (in Korean). Yahoo!. 2009-01-27.
  4. ^ 李玮峰已正式加盟天津泰达足球俱乐部Template:Zh icon
  5. ^ "李玮锋106场国际A级比赛记录 102次首发进13球" (in Chinese). Titan24. 2008-07-28.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by China national football team captain
2003–2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Shanghai Shenhua F.C. captain
with Jiang Kun
2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by China national football team captain
2011– 		Succeeded by
Incumbent

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