Li Yan
Li Yan
Li Yan, born in Shanghai on June 20, 1980, is a Chinese football player. He is an avant-garde on the field. He has been selected into the National Olympic team and the national team.
On May 21, 2011, Li Yan retired from Zhejiang green city due to injury.
Sports career
Start in Shanghai
Li Yan graduated from Zhiyuan Road Primary School in Zhabei District of Shanghai traditional football primary school. He is a teammate with Shen Han and Zheng Kewei. He was a little star at that time and scored like a horse. Teachers and teammates like him. After graduating from junior sports school, Li Yan and Shen Han joined the A-B Shanghai Star team. In 1999, the team was demoted and merged with Shanghai Pudong team. At that time, Li Yan was still a small generation. But then the French coach leuva was very optimistic about Li Yan's prospects.
Over the past few years, Li Yan has grown up in this team, going through Shanghai Pudong, Shanghai COSCO, Shanghai International, Xi'an International and Shaanxi Zhongxin. With this team from Shanghai to Shaanxi.
Shaanxi complex
In 2008, Li Yan was the captain of the Chanba football team of Shaanxi Zhongxin. The head of the first team enjoys the prestige of the old players and the consistent trust of the coaches and teammates. But Li Yan doesn't belong to the leader of the dressing room. He is more willing to assist the coaching team to lead his teammates to charge from the action. This is also reflected in the football field, Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake, Li Yan is an active advocate of disaster relief donations within the team. With the continuous change of the disaster situation, some areas of Shaanxi Province have become earthquake stricken areas. Li Yan couldn't sit still. He generously donated 10000 yuan to the disaster area. At that time, Li Yan was not happy. He even wanted to go to the disaster area as a volunteer. He said that Shaanxi is his second hometown. He is working in his hometown and is duty bound to do everything.
In 2006, when Li Yan arrived in Shaanxi with the team, some fans couldn't identify with the team and the people who spoke Wu Nong's soft language for a while. Li Yan is even regarded as the representative of "Shanghai little man" by individual fans. Two years later, all these misunderstandings disappeared. In 2008, as an Olympic torchbearer, Li Yan naturally revealed the local complex of Shaanxi, "I represent Shaanxi, what I show is the style of contemporary Shaanxi.".
South to green city
In 2010, Wu Jingui rebuilt the green city team, and Li Yan was one of the first internal AIDS he managed. Although he is 30 years old, in Wu Jingui's opinion, Li Yan's ability and experience are bound to be of great help to the green city team. Last season, Li Yan played 27 times, scored two goals and seven assists, and once performed a corner kick to break the goal. Li Yan played a crucial role in the green city team's climb from adversity to the completion of the longest five rounds of the season.
Refutation of rumors
In the last round of A-A in 2003, Tianjin TEDA defeated Shanghai international and successfully relegated. It is reported that the international loss is because some of the team's international players were bought by Nan Yong, then vice president of the Chinese Football Association. With the arrest of the former manager of Tianjin and the investigation of international players such as Shen Si and Qi Hong, the match that Shanghai International lost to Tianjin in 2003 can almost be classified as match fixing. As a player who has participated in this game, Li Yan has also been suspected by the outside world.
On October 18, 2010, some media reported that Li Yan, a former Shanghai international player, was taken away by the ad hoc group for investigation. But shortly after the news came out, Li Yan immediately refuted the rumor, "I have not been investigated at all. The statements in the newspaper are all false, too false, irresponsible to our players, family members and friends, too unprofessional." Li Yan explained to the reporter that the reporter did make his own phone call, but he had to turn it off before the game, so there was a saying that he couldn't get in touch.
Speaking of the game that year, Li Yan said: "at that time, I felt that the game was very difficult. It was very difficult to play on the field. As for the substitution (Li Yan was replaced in advance in the game), I didn't have any injuries at that time. Maybe it was due to tactical arrangements."
Decommissioning
On July 16, 2011, Hangzhou Nobel green city met the visiting Premier League team Arsenal in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. For Li Yan, the No. 8 player of green city, this is a special game, because after this game, Li Yan will officially retire.
Because the injury is unsustainable, Li Yan put forward the retirement request to the team, and after the approval of the club, he carefully selected this match with Arsenal as his farewell match. Before today's match, coach Wu Jingui also specially let Li Yan start, and put on the armband of the captain. Affected by the injury, Li Yan's performance in the game was restrained. In the 28th minute of the game, Li Yan was replaced by Wu Wei.
When the host announced the replacement, all the Green City fans stood up and applauded for Li Yan. On the green city team's bench, all the staff stood in a row to show their respect for Li Yan. At this time, although the game is still going on, the focus of Green City fans is no longer in the field. After shaking hands with everyone one by one, Li Yan went to the North grandstand where the green spirit fans' meeting was located. The Green City fans called Li Yan's name, cheered and applauded. Li Yan waved goodbye to the fans and bowed to the Green City fans, who also applauded warmly.
Career data
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