Xie Hui (footballer)

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xie.

Xie Hui (Simplified Chinese: 谢晖) (born February 14, 1975) is a Chinese professional football player who currently plays as a striker for Shanghai Shenhua in the Chinese Super League. He is one-eighth English; his great-grandmother was English.

[edit] Professional career

After excelling with Shanghai Shenhua in the late 90s, Xie Hui transferred to Alemannia Aachen in January 2000. During the 2000/2001 season, Xie Hui was the top scorer for Aachen with fourteen goals in twenty-four league appearances. The following season Xie Hui netted only once in thirteen appearances. Because of this drop in performance, he went back to Shanghai Shenhua on loan in March 2002 to gain more first team experience and to keep his place on the China national football team. He later transferred to SpVgg Greuther Fürth in August 2002. After netting only once in eight league appearances for Greuther Fürth, Xie Hui came back to China to play for Chongqing Lifan in 2003. He rejoined Shanghai Shenhua in December 2004.

[edit] National team

Xie Hui was China'a top scorer during the 2002 World Cup qualifying stages, but he was dropped by head coach Bora Milutinović from China's final world cup squad.