Li Tie
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| Date of birth | 18 May 1977 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Shenyang, Liaoning, China | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defensive midfielder | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1992–1998 | Liaoning Youth | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1998 | → Jianlibao Youth (loan) | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1998–2003 | Liaoning FC | 82 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | → Everton (loan) | 29 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Everton | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Sheffield United | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | Chengdu Blades | 24 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Liaoning Whowin | 46 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 186 | (2) | |||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 1995–2007 | China | 92 | (6) | ||||||||||||
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| 2012–2015 | Guangzhou Evergrande (assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014– | China (assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Hebei CFFC (assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Hebei CFFC | ||||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 August 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 6 April 2016 |
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Li Tie (simplified Chinese: 李铁; traditional Chinese: 李鐵; pinyin: Lǐ Tiě; born 18 May 1977) is a former Chinese footballer who predominantly played for Liaoning FC in the Chinese Jia-A League and Everton in the Premier League and was most recently the head coach of Chinese Super League side Hebei China Fortune F.C. and assistant coach of the Chinese national team.
Li Tie began his football career at the age of fifteen, joining Liaoning FC's youth academy system in 1992. The following year he was sent to Brazil for a five-year training programme sponsored by Jianlibao and became the captain of the newly organized youth football team. Li started his professional career by playing for Liaoning FC and rose to prominence during the 1999 league season when Liaoning finished as runners-up within the league.
One of the highest regarded Chinese players of his generation, Li secured a loan transfer in a deal brokered between sponsor Kejian and Premier League side Everton in August 2002. Despite initial skepticism at Merseyside, his first season as an Everton player was a surprising success. Then manager David Moyes played him in twenty-nine league games and started him in most of his appearances where his displays as a defensive midfielder helped the club achieve a seventh-place finish during the 2002-03 season.
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