Li Gang (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | August 27, 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Dalian, Liaoning, China | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1.6 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Hainan Seamen | ||
| Number | 29 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2007 | Shanghai United F.C. | 67 | (3) |
| 2007–2009 | Shanghai Shenhua | 23 | (0) |
| 2009 | → Chengdu Blades (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Chengdu Blades | 32 | (4) |
| 2012–2013 | Wuhan Zall | 36 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | Jiangxi Liansheng | 22 | (1) |
| 2016– | Hainan Seamen | 28 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 October 2017. |
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Li Gang (Chinese: 李钢; Pinyin: Li Gāng; born 27 August 1981) is a Chinese football player who currently plays for China League Two side Hainan Seamen as a midfielder.
Li Gang would start his career in 2002 with one of the local football clubs in Dalian, Dalian Saidelong in the second tier where he would go on to establish himself as a regular within the team by playing in twenty three league games within the 2003 league season. He would then see the club move to Shanghai and rename themselves Shanghai United F.C. at the end of the 2004 league season when the club also won promotion to the Chinese Super League after coming second within the league. Li Gang would help establish himself and his team the following season when his team came eleventh in the league. However at the beginning of the 2007 league season Shanghai United F.C. and Shanghai Shenhua merged with Shanghai Shenhua keeping their name.
At Shanghai Shenhua Li Gang would make his debut on March 7, 2007 against Sydney FC in the 2007 AFC Champions League group game that saw Shanghai Shenhua lose 2-1. With the former Shanghai United coach Osvaldo Gimenez managing the team Li Gang would quickly established himself as a regular within the first team despite the significantly large squad and played in fifteen league games within the season as well as also winning the 2007 A3 Champions Cup, which was a mini tournament held during the summer break sanctioned by the East Asian Football Federation. At the beginning of the 2008 league season Wu Jingui was already brought back as Shenhua's manager and despite the large the exist of players at the beginning of the season Li Gang lost favour within the Shanghai team and saw his playing time significantly limited to only five league appearances throughout the season.
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