Nian Weisi
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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 11 May 1933 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Beijing, China | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1951–1960 | North China | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1955–1957 | China | 7 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1963 | China | ||||||||||||||||
| 1963–1965 | Hunan | ||||||||||||||||
| 1965–1976 | China | ||||||||||||||||
| 1978 | China | ||||||||||||||||
| 1980 | China | ||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | China | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Nian Weisi (Chinese: 年维泗; born 11 May 1933) is a Chinese football manager and former player.
As a player he played for the North China team as well as the China national team before he moved into management. As a coach he intermittently managed the Chinese national team for over twenty years. Since retiring from professional football, he became the Chinese Football Association president in April 1988 and held on to this appointment until he retired in August 1994. He briefly came out of retirement with his participation and promotion of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Nian Weisi was born in Beijing. Having started his career with the Beijing team he was given the chance to be included in the newly formed North China team when the Beijing team and Tianjin team merged to play in the first fully national league in 1951.[1] In March 1952 he was considered a very promising young player and was selected into the national soccer training center despite already still being in school. Nevertheless, he would still develop as a footballer and was considered good enough to study in Hungary with the Chinese youth football team in April 1954. By 1957 Nian Weisi would be promoted to the senior side and take part in China's unsuccessful 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification.[2] His footballer career however was cut short on 25 July 1959, when he sustained a broken left leg.[3]
