Hao Haidong

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Personal information
Hao Haidong 郝海东
Full name	Hao Haidong
Date of birth	August 25, 1970 (1970-08-25) (age 37)
Place of birth	Qingdao, China
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	retired
Youth clubs
1986	Bayi FC
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986-1996 1996-2005 2005-2007	Bayi Zhengbang Dalian Shide Sheffield United	048 (19) 130 (78) 000 0(0)
National team
1992-2004	China	115 (41)[1]
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:30, 2 September 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

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

Hao Haidong (郝海东, May 9, 1970, in Qingdao, Shandong) is currently helping out at Chengdu Blades, the Chinese club recently purchased by Sheffield United Football Club in the Football League Championship. Although transferred to the Sheffield outfit in January 2005, he made little impact, suffering from injury, and worked mainly as a coach at the Academy.

Hao is widely regarded as the best striker China has ever produced. His goals were crutial to China qualifying for the 2002 World Cup.

He held the record for the cheapest ever transfer fee, joining Sheffield United from Dalian Shide for a pound in 2005. [2] This record was broken in 2007, when Chelsea paid a symbolic 1€ buy-out clause to purchase Brazilian defender Alex from PSV, where he was playing until he could get a work permit to play in England.

He played over 90 times, including the 2002 FIFA World Cup for the Chinese national team, and is the record goalscorer with 41 goals for his country. Hao is known for his extraordinary pace and goal scoring instincts as a striker. He is widely considered to be the best striker in China in the past two decades.

He was transferred from Bayi FC to Dalian Shide after the 1996 season, where he played 9 seasons and eventually became the head coach before his transfer to England in January 2005. Known as the "Chinese Alan Shearer", he has won many titles and honours with Dalian Shide, notably Jia "A" Championship, the Chinese Superleague, the Chinese Super Cup and the Chinese F.A. Cup.

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Hao Haidong career stats at Soccerbase

Preceded by new creation	AFC Champions League Top Scorer 2002-03	Succeeded by Kim Do-Hoon
Preceded by Jorge Luis Campos	Chinese Football Association Footballer of the Year 1998	Succeeded by Qu Shengqing
Preceded by Fan Zhiyi	Chinese Football Association Golden Ball awardee 1997,1998	Succeeded by Qu Shengqing
Preceded by Casiano Wilberto Delvalle Ruiz	Chinese Football Association Golden Boot awardee 2001	Succeeded by Li Jinyu

v • d • e China squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup

1 An Qi • 2 Zhang Enhua • 3 Yang Pu • 4 Wu Chengying • 5 Fan Zhiyi • 6 Shao Jiayi • 7 Sun Jihai • 8 Li Tie • 9 Ma Mingyu • 10 Hao Haidong • 11 Yu Genwei • 12 Su Maozhen • 13 Gao Yao • 14 Li Weifeng • 15 Zhao Junzhe • 16 Qu Bo • 17 Du Wei • 18 Li Xiaopeng • 19 Qi Hong • 20 Yang Chen • 21 Xu Yunlong • 22 Jiang Jin • 23 Ou Chuliang • Coach: Milutinović