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Full name | Deng Xiaofei | ||
Date of birth | 31 May 1983 | ||
Place of birth | Qingdao, Shandong, China | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
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Current club | Jiangsu Sainty | ||
Number | 1 | ||
Youth career | |||
2000 | Shandong Luneng | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
2001–2006 | Shandong Luneng | 20 | (0) |
2007–2008 | Wuhan Guanggu | 43 | (0) |
2009– | Jiangsu Sainty | 49 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3:37, 5 April 2008 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
Deng Xiaofei (simplified Chinese: 邓小飞; traditional Chinese: 鄧小飛; pinyin: Dèng Xiǎofēi; born 31 May 1983) is a Chinese football goalkeeper, who plays for Jiangsu Sainty in the China Super League.
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A product of the Shandong Luneng youth team he would graduate to the senior team in 2001 and eventually established himself as the teams first choice goalkeepr in the 2003 league season. When the new manager Ljubiša Tumbaković came in at the beginning of the 2004 league season he would bring in Zong Lei as competition for the first choice goalkeeper position. Deng Xiaofei would see his playing time significantly drop, however during this period he would still aid the club to actually win the Chinese FA Cup and Chinese Super League Cup that season. The following season would see youth team player Yang Cheng immediately promoted as first choice goalkeeper, Deng Xiaofei lost favor within the team and was relegated to third choice goalkeeper. When Chinese international goalkeeper Li Leilei came into the team in 2006 Deng Xiaofei was allowed to leave the club.
He would transfer to Wuhan Guanggu in the beginning of the 2007 league season and would immediately establish himself as their first choice goalkeeper where he only missed one league match throughout the entire league season. He would continue to be a consistent regular within the team despite the teams differcult start to the season, however when the team decided to disband during the season he found himself without a club[1]
At the beginning of the 2009 China Super League season he transferred to the newly promoted Jiangsu Saintly after the disbanding of Wuhan Guangu. He would make his competitive debut for Jiangsu Sainty on the 22nd of March 2009 against Shanghai Shenhua, which Jiangsu Sainty lost 2-1.[2]
Shandong Luneng
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