Guan Zhirui
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| Full name | Guan Zhirui | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | April 12, 1953 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Guangzhou, Guangdong, China | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Full-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| –1971 | Zhanjiang | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1972–1983 | Guangdong | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1974–1976 | China | ||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Guangdong Sunray Cave | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Guan Zhirui | |||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 关至锐 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 关至锐 | ||||||||
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Guan Zhirui (Chinese: 关至锐; pinyin: Guān zhìruì; born April 12, 1953) is a retired Chinese football player and manager. He played as a full-back for Guangdong Hongyuan on a club level and was part of the club's first national title at the 1979 National Football League. He also represented his home country of China for the 1976 AFC Asian Cup, achieving third place in the country's Asian Cup debut.
Guan was born in Guangzhou on April 12, 1953, though his family would move to Zhanjiang three years later after the first modern port was established there by the newly founded People's Republic of China as a part of a 14-year-long project. He also lived in Hong Kong for fourteen years. Football was strong in the port city as he played the sport for Zhanjiang Port Authority Primary School, Zhanjiang Amateur Sports School and the Zhanjiang No. 2 Middle School football team. His success in youth football would result in him representing Zhanjiang in the 1971 youth football tournament.[1] He was then scouted by the coach of Guangdong play for the senior team as a full-back alongside Rong Zhixing, Du Zhiren and Chen Xirong.[2] Guan played in the 1st Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup and played in a friendly against Inter Milan. He would also see the club earn considerable success as they would win the 1975 National Games of China as well as the 1979 National Football League as captain where the club won both championships before his retirement in 1983.[3]
