Li Haiqiang
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 3 May 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Meixian, Guangdong, China | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Guangdong Hongyuan | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2002 | Guangdong Hongyuan | ||
| 2002–2003 | Qingdao Hailifeng | 34 | (6) |
| 2003–2004 | Dongguan Dongcheng | 25 | (4) |
| 2004–2006 | Chengdu Wuniu | 4 | (0) |
| 2006–2012 | South China | 84 | (12) |
| 2012–2013 | Tuen Mun | 14 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | Eastern | 14 | (2) |
| 2016 | Shenzhen Baoxin | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 2008–2010 | Hong Kong | 5 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2015 | Shenzhen FC (caretaker) | ||
| 2017– | Meixian Hakka | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 June 2013. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 June 2012 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 李海強 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 李海强 | ||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Hǎiqiáng |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Lei5 Hoi2koeng4 |
Li Haiqiang (simplified Chinese: 李海强; traditional Chinese: 李海強) is a Hong Kong professional association football player. Li plays the role as a midfielder and is nicknamed "The Golden Left Foot" because of his brilliant free kick skills.
He signed for South China in 2006. He was appointed as the captain in the later half of the season as the team captain Au Wai Lun served as a reserve player for majority of matches.
On 21 May 2007, Li Haiqiang was awarded the Hong Kong Footballer of the Year after scoring 6 goals in the 2006–07 season. It was his debut season in Hong Kong First Division League and he was the first Mainland player to receive this award in its 30-year history.
On Tuesday 24 July 2007, he played an integral part of South China's Barclays Asia Trophy 2007 tournament when he scored a terrific free-kick from approximately 40-yards out against Liverpool. The goal embarrassed Liverpool goalkeeper Scott Carson and recalled memories of Ronaldinho's World Cup 2002 goal against England. South China eventually lost the game by 3–1.
In the 2007–08 season, Li scored 4 goals, and all of them came from free kicks. Li Haiqiang was named Hong Kong Footballer of the Year at the end of the season for the second year in a row, as well as being named a member of the Best Eleven.
In the 2009 AFC Cup second round match against Home United FC, Li Haiqiang scored two goals and helped South China win by 4:0 to progress to the quarter finals. On 1 August 2009, at the Panasonic Invitation Cup against Tottenham Hotspur, in the 68th minute, the referee pointed to the spot following a fairly innocuous challenge by Jake Livermore on Chao Pengfei and Li Haiqiang stepped up to chip the ball into the net, scoring the second goal which resulted in South China's 2–0 victory.
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