Chinese footballer
Liu Ailing
??玲
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Full name
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Liu Ailing
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Date of birth
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(
1967-05-02
)
2 May 1967
(age 57)
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Place of birth
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Baotou
, China
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Height
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1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
[1]
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Position(s)
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Midfielder
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Years
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Team
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Apps
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(
Gls
)
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1985?1993
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Beijing
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1994?1997
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Tasaki Perule FC
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1998?2000
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Beijing
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2001?2002
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Philadelphia Charge
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39
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(12)
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1987?2002
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China
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:45, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:45, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
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Liu Ailing
(
simplified Chinese
:
??玲
;
traditional Chinese
:
劉愛玲
;
pinyin
:
Liu Ailing
; born 2 May 1967) is a Chinese former
footballer
who played for the
China national team
at the
1991
,
1995
and
1999
editions of the
FIFA Women's World Cup
. She won a silver medal at the
1996 Atlanta Olympics
and participated at the
2000 Sydney Olympics
. A
playmaking
midfielder, she played for
professional
club football in Japan and the United States.
Club career
[
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]
Born in
Baotou
,
Inner Mongolia
,
[1]
Liu excelled in basketball and athletics but did not play football until she was 17 years old. Her parents were initially reluctant to let her play what they saw as a masculine sport.
[2]
In 1994, Liu joined Japanese second-tier club
Tasaki Perule FC
. She won
promotion
in her first season and remained with the club until 1997.
[3]
At the
2000 WUSA Draft
, Liu was selected by
Philadelphia Charge
in the first round, second overall behind compatriot
Sun Wen
.
[4]
In the United States, Liu experienced a
culture shock
; she bought only raw fruit and vegetables from the supermarket as in China she had been in regimented training camps for so long that she never learned to cook.
[5]
In the
2001 WUSA season
, as a 34-year-old veteran, Liu was a success and led the team on goals (10) and points (22). She was the first woman to win WUSA's Player of the Week in two consecutive weeks, and the first woman to win it three times.
Coach
Mark Krikorian
who was in charged said of Liu: "She has been one of the greatest center midfielders in the world".
[6]
In
2002
, Liu was less effective, contributing two goals and two assists for six points in her 20 regular season appearances (11 starts). She retired at the end of the season.
[7]
International career
[
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]
At the
1991 FIFA Women's World Cup
, Liu played the full 80 minutes in all four of China's games. The hosts reached the quarter-finals before losing 1?0 to
Sweden
.
[8]
In the first ever
FIFA Women's World Cup
match, Liu scored twice in China's 4?0 win over eventual finalists
Norway
on 16 November 1991.
In 1996, she won the silver medal with the Chinese team when she played all five matches and scored one goal.
At the
1997 AFC Women's Championship
, Liu scored four goals in China's 10?0 semi-final win over
Taiwan
and two goals in the 2?0 final win over obdurate
North Korea
. She was named tournament
MVP
.
[9]
Liu was named in the 16-player All-Star team at the
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
.
[10]
She scored the winning goal in the 2?1 first round win over Sweden and two more in the 5?0 semi-final rout of defending champions Norway, securing China's place in the
final
, where they lost a controversial
penalty shootout
to the United States.
[11]
In 2000, she was a member of the Chinese team which finished fifth in the
Olympic women's tournament
. She played all three matches.
In 2003, Liu took a role as deputy secretary general of the Beijing Football Association.
[12]
Following the playing retirement of Liu and influential contemporaries like Sun Wen and
Zhao Lihong
, the Chinese national team went into sharp decline, culminating in an 8?0 defeat by
Germany
at the
2004 Athens Olympics
.
[13]
In June 2007, Liu was running the only girls' football school in Beijing, when it closed through lack of interest.
[14]
International goals
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]
No.
|
Date
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Venue
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Opponent
|
Score
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Result
|
Competition
|
1.
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21 December 1989
|
Kowloon
,
Hong Kong
|
North Korea
|
4
?1
|
4?1
|
1989 AFC Women's Championship
|
2.
|
26 December 1989
|
Hong Kong
|
?
?0
|
7?0
|
3.
|
16 November 1991
|
Guangzhou
,
China
|
Norway
|
2
?0
|
4?0
|
1991 FIFA Women's World Cup
|
4.
|
3
?0
|
5.
|
21 November 1991
|
Foshan
, China
|
New Zealand
|
2
?0
|
4?1
|
6.
|
4
?0
|
7.
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5 December 1993
|
Kuching
,
Malaysia
|
South Korea
|
?
?0
|
6?0
|
1993 AFC Women's Championship
|
8.
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7 December 1993
|
Malaysia
|
?
?0
|
7?0
|
9.
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10 December 1993
|
Japan
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1
?1
|
1?1
|
10.
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12 December 1993
|
North Korea
|
1
?0
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3?0
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11.
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2
?0
|
12.
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3
?0
|
13.
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8 June 1995
|
Vasteras
,
Sweden
|
Australia
|
4
?2
|
4?2
|
1995 FIFA Women's World Cup
|
14.
|
26 September 1995
|
Kota Kinabalu
, Malaysia
|
Hong Kong
|
11
?0
|
12?0
|
1995 AFC Women's Championship
|
15.
|
23 July 1996
|
Miami
,
United States
|
Denmark
|
2
?0
|
5?1
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1996 Summer Olympics
|
16.
|
5 December 1997
|
Guangdong
, China
|
North Korea
|
1
?0
|
3?1
|
1997 AFC Women's Championship
|
17.
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3
?1
|
18.
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12 December 1997
|
Chinese Taipei
|
3
?0
|
10?0
|
19.
|
5
?0
|
20.
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6
?0
|
21.
|
10
?0
|
22.
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14 December 1997
|
North Korea
|
1
?0
|
2?0
|
23.
|
2
?0
|
24.
|
19 June 1999
|
San Jose
, United States
|
Sweden
|
2
?1
|
2?1
|
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
|
25.
|
4 July 1999
|
Foxborough
, United States
|
Norway
|
2
?0
|
5?0
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26.
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3
?0
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27.
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9 November 1999
|
Bacolod
,
Philippines
|
Guam
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3
?0
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15?0
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1999 AFC Women's Championship
|
28.
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6
?0
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29.
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19 November 1999
|
North Korea
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2
?0
|
3?0
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Honors
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]
International
[
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]
- China
[15]
Individual
[
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]
- Asian Player of the Month: December 1997
[16]
References
[
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]
- ^
a
b
"Liu Ailing"
.
Sports Reference
. Archived from
the original
on 18 April 2020
. Retrieved
23 November
2016
.
- ^
Fan Hong, J. A. Mangan (2004).
Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation: Kicking Off a New Era
. Frank Cass Publishers. p. 58.
ISBN
0-7146-8408-2
.
Liu Ailing, another famous player, has stated that her parents once confronted her coach and told him that they did not want their daughter, 'such a lovely girl to play a boy's sport'.
- ^
"Players featured on FIFA's 100 Best Goals who played in Japan"
. Full Bloom: A Guide to Women's Football in Japan. 21 April 2015
. Retrieved
23 November
2016
.
- ^
"China's Sun Wen Selected by Atlanta with Top Pick"
.
People's Daily
. 11 December 2000
. Retrieved
23 November
2016
.
- ^
Jensen, Mike (13 April 2001).
"For soccer's Liu Ailing, a new country means new rules and new league"
.
Knight Ridder
. Archived from
the original
on 21 November 2018
. Retrieved
26 November
2016
.
- ^
"Charge's Liu showing moxie down the stretch"
.
WUSA
. Archived from
the original
on 27 December 2002
. Retrieved
26 November
2016
.
- ^
Narducci, Marc (3 July 2002).
"Charge's Liu Ailing planning to retire"
.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
. Retrieved
26 November
2016
.
- ^
"FIFA Women's World Cup China '91 - Technical Report & Statistics"
(PDF)
.
FIFA
. p. 66. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 27 December 2011
. Retrieved
23 November
2016
.
- ^
"LIU Ailing"
.
FIFA
. Archived from
the original
on 16 April 2000
. Retrieved
23 November
2016
.
- ^
"WWC99: Hamm, Sissi, Sun among 16 players selected to Mastercard All-Star Team"
.
FIFA
. 8 July 1999. Archived from
the original
on 2 July 2015
. Retrieved
26 November
2016
.
- ^
Farley, Maggie (15 July 1999).
"Chinese upset by 'tainted' World Cup loss"
.
The Buffalo News
. Retrieved
26 November
2016
.
[
dead link
]
- ^
"??玲要?安?日子 正式出任北京足?副秘??"
(in Chinese).
Sina Corp
. 8 April 2003
. Retrieved
26 November
2016
.
- ^
"Rusty Steel Roses leave the past behind"
.
FIFA
. 8 September 2004. Archived from
the original
on 27 November 2016
. Retrieved
26 November
2016
.
- ^
"Fewer and fewer Chinese girls play football"
.
Xinhua News Agency
. 3 November 2007
. Retrieved
26 November
2016
.
- ^
"?煌??"
(in Chinese).
Sina Corp
. Retrieved
27 November
2016
.
- ^
"Awards for Saudi and China"
.
Asian Football Confederation
. 14 May 1998. Archived from
the original
on 14 May 1998.
External links
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