Qiu Li

Qiu Li
邱礼
Personal information
Date of birth	6 June 1981 (age 42)
Place of birth	Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder / Striker
Team information
Current team	Balestier Khalsa
Youth career
1996–1999	Changchun Yatai
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000	Changchun Yatai
2001–2004	Liaoning Zhongyu
2005	→ Sinchi FC (loan)
2006	Young Lions
2007	Home United
2008–2010	Tampines Rovers
2011–2012	Home United
2013-	Balestier Khalsa
International career‡
2008–	Singapore
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of Feb 4, 2013; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of Feb 4, 2013

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Qiu Li (Chinese: 邱礼, born June 6, 1981 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China) is a naturalised Chinese-Singaporean professional association football player. He currently plays as a midfielder/striker for the Balestier Khalsa in the S. League.

Football career

Qiu started his senior career in Changchun Yatai and transferred to Liaoning Zhongyu in 2001. He was released by the club in 2005 as he was surplus to requirements.

Qiu was brought to Singapore to play for the now defunct S. League club, Sinchi FC. After the club decided to pull out of the S-league for the 2006 season, he stayed in Singapore and agreed on a contract with the Young Lions where he excelled with 19 goals from 25 matches played.^[1] He joined Home United FC in 2007 but failed to find his form and joined Tampines Rovers FC in 2008. Impressive displays in his debuting two seasons earned him Singapore citizenship. In 2011, he joined Home United again and in 2013 he joined Balestier Khalsa after being released by Home United.

Qiu made his debut for the national team on 28 May 2008, in a friendly against Bahrain.

However, on the 24th of November 2008, FIFA banned Qiu from playing for Singapore because he did not meet the new criteria stating that a new citizen needs to reside in his new country for five years. Qiu Li had only lived in Singapore for 3 years. Thus he would be only eligible for international football come 2010.^[2]

On 23 July 2011, Qu Li scored his first goal for Singapore in the first leg of the World Cup Qualifier against Malaysia played at a sold out crowd at Jalan Besar Stadiums. Singapore won 5–3.

Honours

International

Singapore

AFF Championship: 2012

References

^ [1]^{[dead link]}
^ National footballer Qiu Li gets tackled from behind by new FIFA law « Red Sports. Always Game. Redsports.sg. Retrieved on 2011-08-15.

3. http://news.asiaone.com/news/sports/qiu-li-still-looking-make-mark

4. http://news.asiaone.com/news/sports/home-uniteds-lee-kwan-woo-shoo-s-league-player-year-award

External links

Qiu Li at National-Football-Teams.com
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[2] National footballer Qiu Li gets tackled from behind by new FIFA law « Red Sports. Always Game. Redsports.sg. Retrieved on 2011-08-15.

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