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| Date of birth | 16 October 1905 | ||
| Place of birth | Tai Hang, Hong Kong | ||
| Date of death | 4 July 1979 (aged 73) | ||
| Place of death | Causeway Bay, Hong Kong | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 10.9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1922–1925 | South China | ||
| 1926–1930 | Loh Hwa | ||
| 1931–1947 | South China | ||
| Total | unknown | (1260[1]) | |
| National team | |||
| 1923–1941 | Republic of China[1] | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1954–1958 | Republic of China | ||
| 1966–? | Ming Chuan College (Women) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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| Chinese | 李惠堂 | ||||||||||||
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Lee Wai Tong (Chinese: 李惠堂; pinyin: Lǐ Huìtáng; Cantonese Yale: Lei5 Wai6 Tong4; born 16 October 1905; died 4 July 1979[2]) was a former Chinese international association football player and head coach. In his native country he is often regarded as the greatest footballer to play for China due to his accomplishments in winning several Far Eastern Games titles with the national team as well as captaining the national football squad to their first ever Olympic tournament in 1936, which was held in Berlin. This was also followed by having a extremely successful club career where he predominantly played for South China and helped establish the club in being the most successful team in Hong Kong history. After his retirement he would move into management where he would have a fairly successful career predominantly in coaching Republic of China where his greatest achievements was when he won the 1954 Asian Games
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When Lee was six, his father sent him back to their ancestral county, Wuhua, Guangdong, to study. He returned to Hong Kong at the age of eleven.
He died at the age of 73 in Hong Kong.
Lee Wai Tong would start his football career with South China where he quickly showed himself as being a highly talented striker and was included in the teams first team in 1922 despite being only 17 years old.[3]
Lee, born in Hong Kong, played for the China national team that won the 1925, 1927, 1930, and 1934 Far Eastern Games, and in 1936, he was the captain of the national squad that competed at the Olympic tournament in Berlin.
He was the head coach of South China AA after the World War II. In, 1948, he was appointed coach of the Chinese national team, and after the Chinese Civil War, he coached the Republic of China national football team He also coached the Hong Kong national teams. During 1960s, he became vice-chairman of the Chinese Taipei Football Association, and in 1965 he became vice-president of FIFA, being the first Chinese to reach that position.