Ma Mingyu
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| Date of birth | 10 August 1972 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Chongqing, Sichuan, China | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1990–1994 | Sichuan Quanxing | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Guangdong Hongyuan | 42 | (9) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–2000 | Sichuan Quanxing | 88 | (8) | ||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Perugia | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Sichuan Guancheng | 65 | (5) | ||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 1996–2002 | China | 86 | (12) | ||||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ma Mingyu (simplified Chinese: 马明宇; traditional Chinese: 馬明宇; pinyin: Mǎ Míngyǔ; born 10 August 1972, in Chongqing, Sichuan) is a retired Chinese International football player. He was predominantly remembered for his time at Sichuan Quanxing who he played for several times in his career as well as spells at Guangdong Hongyuan and Italian Serie A side Perugia. While internationally he would play in the 1996 AFC Asian Cup, 2000 AFC Asian Cup and captain China's campaign during the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Ma Mingyu predominately played for top tier Chinese club Sichuan Guancheng where he spent several spells with them throughout his football career. In his first spell with them he would attract attention from Guangdong Hongyuan after Ma had a prolific 1994 league season that saw him play 21 games and score 3 goals. Ma would move to Guangdong Hongyuan at the beginning of 1995 league season, however despite a promising start that saw Guangdong come 4th in the league his time with Guangdong saw him win nothing with them and after a disappointing 1996 league season that saw Guangdong come 9th, Ma returned to Sichuan.
Ma Minyu's second spell at Sichuan Guancheng was to prove considerably more successful with Sichuan as they were genuine title contenders during this period and came 3rd in the 1999 and 2000 league seasons. With Ma firmly established as a permanent fixture within Sichuan's left midfield and becoming a member of the Chinese national team he would attract attention from Italian team Perugia Calcio in the Serie A in the 2000–01 season. His time at Perugia, however was a disaster as he played in no games for them and he returned to Sichuan Guancheng where he has started to play first team football on a regular basis in preparation for the World Cup. At the end of the 2003 league season he would decide to retire from professional football.
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