Wei Qun
Chinese footballer and coach
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Wei Qun (Chinese: 魏群 born 10 February 1971 in Zigong, Sichuan) is a Chinese football coach and a former player who spent the majority of his career with Sichuan Quanxing where he was a defender while internationally he represented China in the 1996 Asian Cup.
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 10 February 1971 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zigong, Sichuan, China | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1984–1990 | Sichuan | ||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | China Olympic team | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–2002 | Sichuan Quanxing | 177 | (28) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | → Yunnan Hongta (loan) | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1998 | China | 17 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Sichuan FC | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Playing career
Wei Qun would start his career playing for the various youth teams for his hometown football team Sichuan before he was called up to the Chinese U23 who happened to call themselves the Chinese Olympic team and were allowed to take part in the 1991 Chinese league campaign where they finished seventh.[1] After an unsuccessful Olympics qualification campaign he returned to Sichuan to start his senior football career however it almost ended before it began when on May 1, 1993, he had an altercation with several men and was stabbed several times.[2] Luckily he was able to make a full recovery and go on to establish himself as a vital member of the team, which soon saw him called up to the Chinese national team where he took part in the 1996 Asian Cup and was part of the team that saw China reach the quarter-finals.[3]
After spending his whole career within Sichuan and nearing the end of his career the club decided to appoint him as their new part-time deputy general manager in 2002, however his perceived brash handling of several senior players negatively affected the club and he was loaned out Yunnan Hongta for the rest of the season.[4] By the end of the 2003 league season Wei did not return to Sichuan and would instead decide to retire from football. He would eventually move into management and would join the second-tier football club Sichuan FC in October 2008.
In March 2018, Wei became the team manager and vice general manager of new established football club in Sichuan, Chengdu Better City.[5]
International goals
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 4 February 1996 | Mong Kok Stadium, Kowloon, Hong Kong |  Hong Kong | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1996 AFC Asian Cup qualification |
