Zhao Yanming
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | January 16, 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Tianjin, China | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 0.8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Tianjin Songjiang | ||
| Number | 16 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1998-2003 | Tianjin Teda | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2003-2012 | Tianjin Teda | 57 | (0) |
| 2013-present | Tianjin Songjiang | 14 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 November 2014. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Zhao Yanming (Chinese: 赵燕明; born January 16, 1981 in Tianjin) is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Tianjin Songjiang as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Zhao Yanming began his football career playing for the Tianjin Teda's youth team before he eventually graduated permanently to the senior team by Giuseppe Materazzi in the 2003 league season where he spent the majority of the season playing as the team's third choice goalkeeper.[1] For the next season he would work his way up as the team's second choice goalkeeper until Liu Yunfei left at the beginning of the 2006 league season to join Shanghai Shenhua, which left the goalkeeping spot up for grabs. The Tianjin coach Liu Chunming would let Zhao fight for the spot against fellow goalkeeper Tian Xu at the beginning of the season and on March 19, 2006 in the second league game of the season against Shenzhen Kingway Zhao was given his chance to establish himself within the team, which he did when he kept a clean sheet in a 3-0 victory.[2] By the end of the season he was firmly established as the team's first choice goalkeeper and Tianjin finished sixth at the end of the season.[3] Despite having a respectable campaign for a young goalkeeper the club brought in a new manager in Jozef Jarabinský as well as a new goalkeeper in Yang Jun who Jarabinský preferred. While Zhao may have been relegated back to the bench he stayed positive for the next several seasons until Arie Haan came to Tianjin as their manager at the beginning of the 2010 league season and promoted Zhao as the team's first choice goalkeeper once again after Yang Jun left the club after a contract dispute. Taking full advantage of his second opportunity Zhao would play through the whole campaign and help guide the club to a runners-up position at the end of the season.[4]
References
- ↑ "赵燕明". sodasoccer.com. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
- ↑ "奥里欧一传一射建奇功 天津主场3-0完胜武汉 评". sports.sohu.com. 2006-03-19. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
- ↑ "China 2006". rsssf.com. 8 Mar 2007. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
- ↑ "China 2010". rsssf.com. 21 Jun 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
External links
- Player stats at Sohu.com