Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 30 October 1983 | ||
Place of birth | Shanghai, China | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Kitchee | ||
Number | 19 | ||
Youth career | |||
1998–2000 | Shanghai Shenhua | ||
2000 | São Paulo | ||
2000 | Portuguesa | ||
2000–2005 | Shanghai Shenhua | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005–2006 | Shanghai Shenhua | 0 | (0) |
2005–2006 | → Shanghai Qunying (loan) | 24 | (0) |
2011– | Kitchee | 63 | (2) |
National team‡ | |||
2005 | China Universiade | 6 | |
2012– | Hong Kong | 33 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 June 2012. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 October 2016 |
Huang Yang | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 黃洋 | ||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 黄洋 | ||||||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Huáng Yáng |
Yue: Cantonese | |
Jyutping | wong4 joeng4 |
Huang Yang (Chinese: 黄洋, born 30 October 1983) is a professional Hong Kong footballer and also the Hong Kong Footballer of the Year in 2013. He currently plays for Kitchee in the Hong Kong Premier League.
Huang Yang played for Shanghai Shenhua's youth academy when he was about 15. He was a member of the team that trained in Brazil with São Paulo FC and Portuguesa. He played for China as captain in the 2005 Summer Universiade Then he was loaned by Shenhua to Shanghai Qunying.
He attended Donghua University and played football at the same time. When he graduated he gave up professional football to start work. A year later Donghua's university football team re-called him as an alumnus when Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU) arrived in Shanghai for a friendly. At the time the HKPU wanted to recruit Chinese students with football talent and Huang Yang thus joined to study at HKPU. In the three years since he joined, Hong Kong Polytechnic University won the University Sports Federation of Hong Kong's soccer competition twice, including in 2011, when Huang Yang was captain and scored the winning penalty. After that Huang Yang completed his second degree and decided to join Kitchee to complete his unfinished dream.
He finished his studies in summer 2011 and Kitchee recruited him for the 2011-12 Hong Kong First Division League season. As he has already spent 3 years in Hong Kong as a student, he qualifies as a Hong Kong player. On 18 September 2011, he score his first goal in the Hong Kong First Division League in his club's 4:2 win over Tai Po FC.