Fan Zhiyi
Fan Zhiyi
Fan Zhiyi, born on November 6, 1969 in Yangpu District, Shanghai, China, is a former Chinese professional male football player and coach. He once served as the captain of China's national men's football team and is now the vice president of Shanghai Football Association.
Fan Zhiyi was elected China's football player of the year for two consecutive times in 1995 and 1996, and won the Asian football player of the year in 2001. He played 90 times for the Chinese national team and scored 14 goals.
Fan Zhiyi was originally a member of Shanghai Shenhua Football Team. In 1998, he played for the Crystal Palace team of the English first Division League. He became the best player of the year and served as the captain of the team. He once played for the Hong Kong Group a league team, Hong Kong Rangers, as well as a player and coach. He once served as the technical director of the Chinese group B league team Suzhou jupusi. In 2006, Fan Zhiyi announced his retirement.
In July 2015, he was the director of Shanghai Shenhua youth training + U18 coach.
On August 17, 2018, he was suspended by the Football Association for one year for beating and abusing the referee.
On May 11, 2020, Fan Zhiyi was appointed Vice President of Shanghai Football Association.
Sports career
Club career
1994-1998 Shanghai Shenhua;
On January 18, 1998, he and Zhang Enhua went to Britain for a 10 day trial training.
In March 1998, he went to Tottenham Tottenham for his second trial training in the English Premier League and returned home at the end of this month because he was unable to take part in the formal competition.
In August 1998, he and Dalian Wanda team Sun Jihai joined the League one team Crystal Palace and signed a contract for four years. The dues for the dues totaled 1 million pounds.
1998-2001 Crystal Palace, England;
2001-2002 Dundee Scotland (loaned to COSCO Shanghai in 2002);
2002-2003 England Cardiff team;
In the second half of 2003, he played for Hong Kong pengma Rangers;
In 2004, he returned to China to join Zhuhai Zhongbang team and helped the team surpass successfully at the end of the year.
He worked in Shanghai Zhongbang from 2004 to 2005.
He announced his retirement in 2006.
National team career
At the end of 1987, Fan Zhiyi was selected into the second national football team established by Xu Genbao.
In 1988, Fan Zhiyi began to represent the second national team to participate in the unprofessional Chinese Football Group A League, and ranked first in the scoreboard over Liaoning team, which won the fifth consecutive championship. Only because of the bonus points of Liaoning team, did he take the second place.
In 1989, Fan Zhiyi scored the only goal in the first leg of the match with Liaoning team, and finally helped the second national team to win the League a championship.
In 1990, Fan Zhiyi was selected into the Chinese National Olympic football team established by Xu Genbao.
In 1991, Fan Zhiyi was selected into the Chinese national men's football team coached by Klaus schlapner.
In October 1992, Fan Zhiyi participated in the 1992 Japan Asian Cup on behalf of the Chinese national team and kept full attendance in five matches to help the national football team win the third place.
In October 1994, Fan Zhiyi participated in the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games on behalf of the Chinese national team. He was twice elected the best player of the match, helping the national football team win the silver medal and creating the best record in the history of the Asian Games.
In 1996, he was selected as the captain of Qi wusheng's national football team;
In March 1997, he was selected into Qi wusheng's national football team for the third time to prepare for the 16th World Cup;
In February 1998, he was selected into the national football team coached by the British Houghton;
In October 1998, he was selected into the National Asian Games football team. In December 1999, he was selected into the national football training team in charge of Jin Zhiyang;
In February 2000, he was selected as the national team coached by Yugoslavian Milutinovic to help China win the right to participate in the world cup for the first time, and participated in the finals of the 2002 World Cup between South Korea and Japan;
After the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, he announced his formal withdrawal from the national team and participated in 109 international class a competitions on behalf of the national team.
Teaching career
In 2003, Fan Zhiyi returned from the Scottish Premier League and began his transformation from a player to a coach. He plans to start with Shenhua team and become a player and assistant coach. No, Shanghai COSCO is an alternative. However, both teams rejected Fan Zhiyi.
Later, Fan Zhiyi worked as a coach in pengma vagrant, Hong Kong, and chuppus, Suzhou. From time to time, there were negative news such as beating the field workers and being sued by his ex-wife.
2007: he was employed as the head coach of Suzhou yupushi team and started his coaching career. He led Suzhou team for five months and resigned because of the salary dispute.
On the morning of January 17, 2009, the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau held a press conference in Dongya building, announcing the establishment of the Shanghai Men's football team (group B) for the 11th National Games. Team leader Dai Chunhua, head coach Fan Zhiyi, assistant coaches Qiu Jingwei, Chen Lin, Li Yuehong, Zhang Zhigang and Shi Guanglun. The players come from Genbao football base, Pudong youth football club, Shenhua Football School, Zhabei private Jingwen school and Yangpu Baiyangdian football field.
In January 2009, Fan Zhiyi led Shanghai U16 men's football team to the final eight.
In the second half of 2009, Hong Kong businessman Yang Ka Shing successfully acquired Birmingham, hoping to bring Fan Zhiyi to the Premier League, and even to join the Birmingham coaching staff. Before that, Fan Zhiyi also said in an interview with a Shanghai TV station that his greatest wish is to become "the first Chinese to coach in the Premier League".
Yu Chen, Secretary of the Party committee and director of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of sports, chairman of Shanghai Football Association, and Qiu Weichang, deputy director of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of sports and executive vice chairman of Shanghai Football Association, attended today's press conference. Sui Guoyang, director of Shanghai football management center and Secretary General of Shanghai Football Association, introduced the formation process of men's football team (group B). After the meeting, the team immediately went to Shanghai Sports Bureau Oriental Green Boat training base to start training. The team will take part in the group B preliminaries of the 11th National Games in June 2009.
According to the general rules of the 11th National Games of the people's Republic of China newly issued by the State General Administration of sports, in the 11th National Games held in Shandong Province in 2009, football will be added to men's group B (Group under 16) and women's group B (Group under 18). At the same time, the general provisions also stipulate that the teams in the top three of these two groups will be counted according to 2 gold medals, 1 gold medal and 0.5 gold medals respectively. The top three teams in the men's group A (Group under 20 years old) and women's adult group will still be counted according to the medal statistics method of the last National Games, that is, the top three teams will be counted according to two gold (silver, copper) medals respectively. This move of the State General Administration of sports aims to promote the local sports administrative departments to pay attention to the cultivation of youth football reserve talents, hoping to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of local governments through the reform of football project setting in the National Games, and jointly promote the improvement of China's football level.
In October 2009, he led Shanghai U16 men's football team into the final eight.
After the 11th National Games, Fan Zhiyi followed his mentor Xu Genbao as the head coach of the East Asian team.
In 2010, due to the failure of leading the team to surpass, he no longer served as the head coach of the East Asian team.
Member of the Executive Committee of the 9th Shanghai Football Association.
On the afternoon of May 11, 2020, Shanghai Football Association held the second member congress of the ninth session, and Fan Zhiyi was appointed Vice President of Shanghai Football Association.
Personal life
On June 9, 2016, Fan Zhiyi married his girlfriend Zhang Mengjin, who had been in love for five years and was 17 years old. Before that, they had been in love for five years.
On the morning of August 13, 2018, Zhu Junwei and Fan Zhiyi, executive vice presidents of Shanghai Greenland Shenhua Football Association, came to Shanghai Football Association to apologize to referee Jin Yifei for their irrational behavior in the match between Shanghai Shanggang and Shanghai Greenland Shenhua reserve team on August 12. Lin Yi, vice chairman and Secretary General of Shanghai Football Association, attended the meeting.
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social activities
On the evening of February 7, 2017, Fan Zhiyi attended the foundation's 2017 charity dinner and donated the No. 5 Jersey he wore in the only world cup (2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan) on behalf of the Chinese national team during the auction.
Character controversy
Divorce property dispute
Fan Zhiyi, who used to be a "rich player" in the era of players, is now facing the embarrassing situation of being forced to go bankrupt by his ex-wife. The property dispute between former Chinese football star Fan Zhiyi and his ex-wife Li Qian has entered the implementation stage. Li Qian has recovered 2.41 million yuan from Fan Zhiyi for the outstanding divorce fee, but "general fan Dajun" says that he has no financial ability to pay for it.
Divorce costs up to $3 million
At the end of 1995, Fan Zhiyi married Li Qian, a flight attendant. At that time, they were once an enviable couple and were once regarded as a model of the marriage of Chinese football stars and stewardesses. However, the marriage lasted only a little more than 10 years. In May 2006, Fan Zhiyi's marriage to Li Qian came to an end. Later, Fan Zhiyi made friends and married another stewardess with the same name as Hong Kong sexy star Li longyi. At that time, he and Li Qian agreed to divorce, and reached an agreement on daughter support and property division: after the divorce, the man should pay 3 million yuan to the woman, and pay 1 million yuan to the woman within 10 days after going through the divorce procedures; pay another 1 million yuan before April 30, 2007; and pay 1 million yuan before April 30, 2008
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