Xie Hui (footballer)

Xie Hui
谢晖
Personal information
Full name Xie Hui
Date of birth 14 February 1975 (1975-02-14) (age 37)
Place of birth Shanghai, China
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Striker
Youth career
1992-1994 Shanghai Shenhua
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994-2000 Shanghai Shenhua 104 (25)
2000-2002 Alemannia Aachen 50 (19)
2002 Shanghai Shenhua (Loan) 4 (0)
2002-2003 Greuther Fürth 8 (1)
2003-2004 Chongqing Lifan 11 (2)
2005-2008 Shanghai Shenhua 61 (18)
2008 SV Wehen (Loan) 5 (0)
National team
1996-2005 China 22 (9)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC).

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 3:30, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Xie Hui (simplified Chinese: 谢晖; traditional Chinese: 謝暉; pinyin: Xiè Huī; born February 14, 1975 in Shanghai) is a retired Chinese professional football player who currently is hired as an assistant manager for Shanghai Shenhua. He is one-eighth English; his great-grandmother was English.

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Professional career

Xie Hui started his professional football career with Shanghai Shenhua in the 1994 season. After excelling with Shanghai Shenhua for six seasons in the late 90s where he won, one top tier league title and a Chinese FA Cup Xie Hui transferred to Alemannia Aachen in January 2000.[1] 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.

After 2 years in China with Shanghai Shenhua, Xie Hui headed back to Germany. He joined SV Wehen Wiesbaden on January 1, 2008 on a 18 month contract.,[2] he returned to Shanghai Shenhua on 6 January 2009. He then retired at the club and became an assistant manager at Shanghai Shenhua.

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.

Personal

Xie was married to a Chinese supermodel, Tong Chenjie (佟晨洁). Divoced recently. [3]

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