Ming-yang Yang

Ming-yang Yang

Personal information
Date of birth	(1995-07-11) 11 July 1995
Place of birth	Basel, Switzerland
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Grasshoppers
Youth career
2001–2010	Fribourg
2011–2012	Neuchâtel Xamax
2012–2013	Lausanne-Sport
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013–2017	Lausanne-Sport	81	(1)
2017	FC Winterthur	3	(0)
2017–2020	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0	(0)
2018–2019	→ FC Jumilla (Loan)	29	(0)
2020–	Grasshoppers	0	(0)
International career‡
2010	Switzerland U16	4	(0)
2012	Switzerland U18	3	(0)
2013–2014	Switzerland U19	8	(0)
2014–2016	Switzerland U20	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 August 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 August 2020

Ming-yang Yang (born 11 July 1995) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Grasshoppers.

Early life

Yang was born in Basel, Switzerland to father Yang Zhihong, a professor of physiology at Fribourg University. His father originates from Wuhan, China and emigrated to Switzerland after he received a medical doctor's degree from Basel University in the 1990s. Yang began his football career with FC Fribourg youth team in 2001. He transferred to Neuchâtel Xamax in 2011 and moved to Lausanne-Sport in 2012.

Club career

Yang was promoted to Lausanne-Sport's first team squad in the summer of 2013. On 14 July 2013, he made his senior debut in a 2–0 away defeat against FC Luzern.

After a short spell with FC Winterthur, on 31 August 2017, Yang joined English Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.