Yang Chen (footballer, born 1974)

Not to be confused with Yang Chen (footballer, born 1991).
For the footballer surnamed Chen, see Chen Yang (footballer).
Yang Chen
杨晨
Personal information
Full name Yang Chen
Date of birth (1974-01-17) 17 January 1974
Place of birth Beijing, China
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Striker / Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Guizhou Renhe (assistant manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1997 Beijing Guoan 55 (7)
1998 → SV Waldhof Mannheim (loan) 0 (0)
1998–2002 Eintracht Frankfurt 94 (21)
2002–2003 FC St. Pauli 20 (2)
2003–2005 Shenzhen Jianlibao 49 (4)
2006–2007 Xiamen Lanshi 51 (4)
National team
1995–2004 China 35 (11)
Teams managed
2009–2010 Jiangsu Sainty (assistant)
2011–2013 Jiangsu Sainty (assistant)
2014 Beijing Renhe (assistant)
2015- Beijing Enterprises (assistant)（guidetrainer）

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang.

Yang Chen (simplified Chinese: 杨晨; traditional Chinese: 楊晨; pinyin: Yáng Chén; born 17 January 1974 in Beijing) is a former professional football player who is predominantly remembered for being the first Chinese player to play in the Fußball-Bundesliga and for representing the Chinese football team in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Club career

Beginning his professional football career with Beijing Guoan he would gradually establish himself within their team during his time with them, however it was only once he had a short loan period with lower league German SV Waldhof Mannheim in 1998 did he show his potential as a striker. This saw Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt interested in him and were willing to make a transfer of 1,000,000 DEM for his services.[1] Being the first Chinese footballer to play in the Bundesliga he would personally thrive within the league and score eight goals to helped the team to avoid relegation to 2. Bundesliga.[2] Yang Chen would go on to be viewed as a trailblazer for Chinese footballers for his ability to score in one of the five major European football leagues and would personally go on to win the Chinese Footballer of the Year in 2000. While his time with Frankfurt was viewed as a success when new manager Felix Magath came in during the 2000–01 season Yang Chen did lose favour within the team and would have to fight back for his position before deciding to move to 2. Bundesliga team FC St. Pauli to ensure his place within the Chinese football team in preparation for the FIFA World Cup.

Yang Chen went back to his home country to play for Shenzhen Jianlibao where under the manager Zhu Guanghu his career would thrive once more and he would go on to win the 2004 Chinese Super League title. Once Zhu Guanghu left to take over the Chinese national team and Chi Shangbin came in to replace him Yang Chen and several other players immediately took a disliking to him. Throughout the 2005 league season there were numerous accusations between the management and the players. The club would decide to let the management go and several players including Yang Chen were sold off. He would go on to join Xiamen Lanshi until they disbanded in 2007 and he decided to retire.

In 2011, Jiangsu Sainty appoint Yang as an assistant coach.

In January 2015, Yang accepted the invitation of Beijing Enterprises and became the guidetrainer and an assistant coach.

International career

Yang Chen also played for China at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He is the Chinese player to have come closest to scoring in the World Cup when his volley ricocheted off the post in the 3–0 loss to Turkey in group stage.

International goals

Scores and results list China's goal tally first.
Goal DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
12 December 1998Bangkok, Thailand Cambodia4–11998 Asian Games
22 December 1998Bangkok, Thailand Cambodia4–11998 Asian Games
32 December 1998Bangkok, Thailand Cambodia4–11998 Asian Games
410 December 1998Bangkok, Thailand Oman6–11998 Asian Games
57 October 2000Amman, Jordan Jordan1–01–1Friendly International
616 October 2000Tripoli, Lebanon Indonesia3–04–02000 AFC Asian Cup
723 October 2000Beirut, Lebanon Qatar3–03–12000 AFC Asian Cup
826 October 2000Beirut, Lebanon Japan2–12–32000 AFC Asian Cup
922 April 2001Xi'an, China Maldives7–010–12002 FIFA World Cup qualifier
1013 May 2001Kunming, China Indonesia2–15–12002 FIFA World Cup qualifier
1110 December 2003Kanagawa, Japan Hong Kong3–03–12003 EAFF East Asian Cup

Honours

Shenzhen Jianlibao

References

  1. ↑ "姓名：杨晨（Yang Chen）" (in Chinese). sina.com.cn. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Yang, Chen" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/26/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.