Song Zhenyu

Song Zhenyu

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Club career

Despite being born in Dalian, Liaoning Song Zhenyu would move to Chengdu in the Sichuan province as a boy where he achieved his dream in becoming a professional footballer when he joined top-tier side Sichuan Quanxing in 1999. For the next two seasons he played understudy to Gao Jianbin and made thirteen league appearances during the periods that Gao Jianbin was injured; however, being unable to permanently claim the first-choice goalkeeping position, Song was loaned out to Chongqing Lifan and his hometown football team Dalian Shide. After his loan period expired with Dalian Shide the club would decide to make a permanent move for Song where he played understudy to An Qi and made nine league appearances. At the beginning of the 2005 league season Song rejoined his first club Sichuan Quanxing (who had renamed themselves Sichuan Guancheng) and immediately became the team's first-choice goalkeeper and helped guide the club to a ninth-place finish at the end of the season; however this wasn't enough for Sichuan in stopping them disbanding the team. In the 2006 league season Song moved to Shenyang Ginde where he rose to prominence by becoming their first choice goalkeeper. The following season would see him continue his establishment within the team despite the club's decision to move to Changsha and rename themselves Changsha Ginde. In 2008 Song became his country's first choice goalkeeper, then he tended to his wife while she battled and recovered from a brain tumor while also…

International career

Song Zhenyu would be called up to the Chinese senior team in 2007 after recently appointed manager Vladimir Petrović decided he was looking for a new goalkeeper. He would fight for the goalkeeping position against Zong Lei and would eventually make his first full international cap for China against Mexico on April 16, 2008 in a 1-0 defeat. Under Petrović's reign Song would become his countries first choice goalkeeper until Gao Hongbo became the Chinese new manager and decided to drop Song from the squad.

Club
Changchun Yatai F.C. (2013–)
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Sichuan First City F.C. (1999–2001)
Club
Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic F.C. (2002–2002)
Club
Dalian Shide F.C. (2003–2003)
Club
Dalian Shide F.C. (2004–2004)
Club
Sichuan First City F.C. (2005–2005)
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Guangzhou City F.C. (2006–2009)
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Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. (2010–2011)
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Tianjin Jinmen Tiger F.C. (2011–2012)
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China men's national football team (2007–2009)

Legacy

Honours

Tianjin Teda

Chinese FA Cup: 2011

Clubs

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Identifiers & aliases
Description

Chinese footballer

Position

goalkeeper

Extract from Wikipedia

Song Zhenyu is a Chinese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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