Wu Xi
Wu Xi
Wu Xi, born on February 19, 1989 in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, is a Chinese football player. He is now playing for Shanghai Shenhua Football Club.
At the beginning of her career, Wu Xi represented Hebei team in China B League and national games. At the end of 2009, Wu Xi signed a contract with Shanghai Shenhua Football Club to play as the main right back of the team in the Chinese Super League, and was selected into the Chinese national team for the first time in July 2011, helping the Chinese team to advance to the top 8 of the 2015 Australia Asian Cup.
At the end of 2012, Wu Xi transferred to Jiangsu Shuntian football club and became the main front waist of the team, helping the team win the 2013 Super Cup championship, the 2014 FA Cup runner up and other honors. In January 2020, he was selected into the technical archives of excellent Chinese players in the league. On November 12, 2020, Wu Xi won the 2020 Ping'an China Football Association Super League Championship with Jiangsu Suning football club. On March 11, 2021, Wu Xi returned to join Shanghai Shenhua Football Club.
Early experience
Wu Xi was born in an intellectual family in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. Her father is a university professor and her mother is a middle school teacher. However, Wu Xi's father is also a football fan. As a child, Wu Xi gradually fell in love with football under the influence of his father. According to his father, "in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Wu Xi, who was less than two years old, was staring at TV.".
Because of her outstanding ability, 9-year-old Wu Xi once became the cover character of "youth sports training". In the end, because of her love, Wu Xi decided to give up the college entrance examination and go to a sports school to take a professional road. She convinced her mother, who was against her, and finally joined the football career.
With a good performance, Wu Xi soon attracted the attention of football coaches in Shijiazhuang sports school, and began semi professional training. But because Shijiazhuang city has no professional team, until 2008, Wu Xi, who has become the main force of Hebei National Games team, joined Hebei team in the National Second Division League that year.
Sports career
Club career
Hebei Tiangong
In 2008, Wu Xi joined Hebei Tiangong football club, which is based on Hebei National Games team, and joined the team in the second division of Chinese Football League. At the beginning of her career, Wu Xi, who is an avant-garde, showed excellent passing and cutting skills and a sense of positioning, and became the captain of the team. In this season, Wu Xi scored seven goals, and had two goals, penalty shoot outs and other highlights.
In 2009, Wu Xi participated in the U-20 men's football competition of the 11th National Games with Hebei National Games team. Wu Xi fully demonstrated the characteristics of daring to plug in, decisive shooting and excellent footwork in this competition. She scored five goals in a single event and became the number one shooter in the team, leading the team to the seventh place. In the group match against Hubei National Games team, Wu Xi headed the goal to help the team level the score at the last moment. In the final match against Zhejiang team, he also staged a hat trick to help Hebei team beat the opponent 4-2.
Shanghai Shenhua
On November 17, 2009, due to his excellent performance in the National Games, Zhu Jun, owner of Shanghai Shenhua club, announced that Wu Xi had signed a contract to join the Shenhua team, and was chosen by Shenhua along with his teammate Jia Xiaochen and goalkeeper sun le.
In the 2010 season, Wu Xi changed to play right back under the command of blazevich, the then Shenhua coach, and completed the first show of CSL in the 2-1 away defeat of Nanchang Bayi in the second round of CSL on April 3, 2010. On April 17, 2010, when Shanghai Shenhua defeated Tianjin TEDA 2-0 in the fourth round of CSL, Wu Xi scored the first goal in his career with a low shot in the 74th minute, helping the team to win.
In the two seasons of 2011 and 2012, Wu Xi gradually became the core of the team with her excellent performance. On October 23, 2011, in the 28th round of the CSL, Shanghai Shenhua defeated Dalian Shide 1-0 at home. Wu Xi seized the opponent's error and headed the goal in the 11th minute to help the team win two rounds of relegation ahead of time.
On September 15, 2012, in the 24th round of China Super League match, Shanghai Shenhua won 2-1 at home over Henan Jianye, Wu Xi received the challenge of Youde Roba in the 13th minute, and then volleyed the goal to help the team open the first record. This wonderful goal also entered the international famous football website Goal.com The top five goals in world football this week.
Jiangsu sainty
At the end of 2012, Shanghai Shenhua suffered from economic pressure, and Shun Tian won the second place in the league and entered the Asian Championship directly. On December 18, 2012, Jiangsu Shuntian Football Club officially announced that Wu Xi officially transferred to Jiangsu Shuntian and signed a contract with Shuntian for four years. According to people familiar with the matter, Wu Xi's transfer fee is between 15 million and 20 million.
In 2013, Wu Xi took two positions as the back waist and right back under the account of Dragan, the then head coach of suntian, and completed the first official game of representing suntian in the first round of the Asian Champions League group match when Jiangsu suntian lost to FC Seoul 1-5 away.
On March 3, 2013, the 2013 China Football Association Super Cup started in Guangzhou Tianhe Sports Center. In the 2-1 away defeat of Guangzhou Evergrande by Jiangsu Shuntian, Wu Xi started the match and played all over the match, helping Shuntian win the first top Chinese football tournament in history. On July 2, 2013, in the warm-up match of Jiangsu Shuntian's 2-1 home defeat of CSKA Moscow, Wu Xi seized the corner opportunity to shoot the goal at the end of the game. While scoring his first goal after joining Shuntian, he also helped the team to win. Eight days later, in the fourth round of the FA Cup, Jiangsu Shuntian defeated Guangzhou Fuli 4-1 at home. Wu Xi picked up the ball from his teammate Zhou Yun in the 18th minute and headed the goal.
In 2014, Gao Hongbo took over the coach of Jiangsu Shuntian. Due to his teammate Deng Zhuoxiang's general condition, Wu Xi's position gradually moved forward, and in the second half of the season, he was in the front waist position. Wu Xi, who has become the core of the team's attack, has got more space to play. He has also become the team's third shooter along with his teammate arielson, who has scored four goals in the single season.
On September 21, 2014, in Jiangsu Shuntian's 1-1 draw with Henan Jianye, Wu Xi helped his teammate Elias to level the score in the 58th minute, almost relying on one person's strength to change the situation on the field. In addition, in the CFA cup, Wu Xi also has an excellent performance. On October 1 and 23, 2014, in the semi-final of the FA Cup, Jiangsu Shuntian scored twice in the home and away matches against Shanghai Shenhua, and in the Second World War, Shenhua guard Tao Jin was sent off with a red card, eventually helping Shuntian to eliminate his opponent 5-0 and advance to the final.
On November 9, 2014, in the first leg of the FA Cup final, Jiangsu Shuntian lost 2-4 to Shandong Luneng in the away game. Wu Xi scored a goal in the 72nd minute to bring back the hope of the team in the second round. However, due to Wu Xi's yellow card in the game, the team's offensive strength was affected by the two yellow cards accumulated in the second round. Finally, he was defeated by Shandong Luneng and won the runner up of 2014 China Football Association Cup.
On September 30, 2015, the first leg of the 2015 FA Cup semi-final started. Relying on the two goals in the first and second half of carltensen and Wu Xi, Jiangsu Shuntian defeated Shandong Luneng 2-1 away. This game is Wu Xi's 100th game on behalf of Jiangsu Shuntian. He scored in a hundred milestone battles. This night is absolutely significant for Wu Xi.
On December 7, 2019, the award ceremony of China Super League in 2019 season was held in Shanghai. According to the result of fans' voting, Jiangsu Suning player Wu Xi beat Hao Junmin and Wei Shihao as the most popular local players of China Super League in 2019.
On November 12, 2020, the second round of the 2020 CSL championship competition started. Wu Xi started the competition and finally helped Jiangsu Suning win Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 2-1 to win the first CSL championship in the history of the team.
Return to Shenhua
On March 11, 2021, Wu Xi officially returned to join Shanghai Shenhua Football Club.
National team career
In November 2007, Wu Xi was drafted into China's national youth men's football team. On August 4, 2007, in the match of "Weifang Cup" Invitational football match, Chinese National Youth beat Iran National Youth 2-0, Wu Xi came on as a substitute in the second half and scored a goal, completing his own national brand debut and helping the team finally win the "Weifang Cup" runner up. Since then, Wu Xi entered the 25 people's Congress list of the national youth team for the Asian Youth preliminary competition, and scored a goal in the 10-0 defeat of China's Macao team.
In January 2008, Wu Xi followed the national youth team to participate in the Qatar eight youth championship, and finally won the fourth place. In November 2008, Wu Xi, as the main right back of the national youth team, participated in the final of the Asian Youth Championship in Saudi Arabia. In the 6-0 defeat of Tajikistan in the first round of the group match, Wu Xi led the back line to play a stable opponent, and he also had the performance of sending assists. However, in the quarter final against Uzbekistan, Wu Xi missed the penalty in the penalty war against center back irom tutahuhayev, who was the guest goalkeeper of the other side. In the end, the team lost 3-4 to the opponent and missed the final four, and also lost the chance to participate in the 2009 World Youth Championship in Egypt
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