Han Wenhai

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Han Wenhai
韩文海
Personal information
Full name	Han Wenhai
Date of birth	(1971-01-28) 28 January 1971
Place of birth	Dalian, China
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper (Retired)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1994–2000	Dalian Shide	159	(0)
2001	Zhejiang Lücheng	18	(0)
2002–2004	Shenyang Ginde	53	(0)
National team^‡
1996–2004	China	0	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12:28, 1 April 2009 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12:28, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Han Wenhai (Simplified Chinese: 韩文海) (born 28 January 1971) is a former Chinese football goalkeeper, currently at Dalian Aerbin F.C. as a goalkeeping coach. The Chinese female football goalkeeper Han Wenxia is his sister.

Biography

Han Wenhai began his professional football career with Dalian Shide and was one of the first goalkeepers in China to accept the guidance of British coaches to aid players achieve professionalism.^[1] This would greatly help him rise to prominence during the 1996 league season when he established himself as Dalian's first-choice goalkeeper and aided the team to win the league title.^[2] His performances would see him included in the Chinese squad that took part in the 1996 AFC Asian Cup where he played understudy to Ou Chuliang. This was then followed by several FIFA World Cup qualifying games, however he struggled to replace Ou as the teams goalkeeper and despite being called up to several squads he found another goalkeeper Jiang Jin pushing ahead of him for the goalkeeper position. At Dalian he remained the teams number one goalkeeper for the next several years and won three more league titles until he left at the end of the 2000 league season when he was replaced by Chen Dong.

Han Wenhai would join second tier side Zhejiang Lücheng in 2001 and would go on to play eighteen league games, however he only stayed for one season before joining top tier Shenyang Ginde at the beginning of the 2002 league season. Han stayed with Shenyang for three seasons before retiring at the end of the 2004 league season.

Honours

Club

Dalian Shide

Chinese Jia-A League: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000

Individual

China Team of the year: 1996, 1997

Personal life

His sister Han Wenxia was a goalkeeper for China women's national football team.

References

↑ "姓名：韩文海". sports.sina.com.cn. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
↑ "China League 1996". rsssf.com. 19 Jun 2003. Retrieved 2012-07-25.

External links

Player profile at Sina.com

v t e China squad – 1996 AFC Asian Cup

1 Jiang Hong 3 Wei Qun 4 Zhang Enhua 5 Xu Hong 6 Fan Zhiyi 7 Hao Haidong 8 Ma Mingyu 9 Cao Xiandong 10 Li Bing 11 Peng Weiguo 12 Su Maozhen 13 Sun Jihai 14 Jiang Feng 15 Han Jinming 16 Li Ming 17 Gao Feng 19 Wu Chengying 20 Ou Chuliang 21 Liu Yue 22 Han Wenhai 23 Xie Hui Coach: Qi Wusheng

Persondata
Name	Han Wenhai
Alternative names
Short description	Footballer
Date of birth	1971-01-28
Place of birth	Dalian, China
Date of death
Place of death

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