| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lu Jiang | ||
| Date of birth | June 30, 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Beijing, China | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Beijing Guoan | ||
| Number | 18 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1996-2000 | Beijing Guoan | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2000- | Beijing Guoan | 119 | (5) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1999 | China U-23 | ? | (?) |
| 2002 | China | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of December 2009. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Lu Jiang (Chinese: 路姜; pinyin: Lù Jiāng) (born June 30, 1981 in Beijing) is a Chinese football player. He currently plays for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super League.
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Lu Jiang started his professional football career with Beijing Guoan in 2000 as a highly promising young midfielder who came from the clubs youth team.[1] He would progress within the team establishing himself as a squad regular until the beginning of the 2002 league season when new Beijing Guoan Head coach Ljupko Petrović promoted Lu Jiang as a first choice regular within the team. Beijing could not improve upon their 2002 league standing and when Shen Xiangfu came in as Head coach in 2005 Lu Jiang would find himself increasingly dropped from the team during the end of the season. Lu Jiang's performances saw him relegated to a squad player throughout the 2006 league season, however when Lee Jang-Soo came in to manage the team in 2007 he was able get some more playing time. Under Lee Jang-Soo's reign he would become a versatile player able to play as a right back and with the sudden retirement of the teams right back Zhang Shuai at the end of the 2008 league season Lu Jiang would establish himself as a first choice regular once more within the team.[2]
A promising youngster, Lu Jiang would be called into the Chinese U-21 team and would be promoted to the senior team once he established himself within the Beijing Guoan on December 7, 2002 for a friendly against Syria in a game that China won 3-1 .[3]
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