Zheng Xiong
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Zheng Xiong | ||
| Date of birth | February 5, 1966 | ||
| Place of birth | Wuhan, Hubei, China | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1999 | Shanghai Pudong (assist) | ||
| 2000–2002 | Wuhan (assist) | ||
| 2003 | Wuhan reserve | ||
| 2004 | Wuhan U-17 | ||
| 2005 | Wuhan U-19 | ||
| 2005–2006 | China U-17 | ||
| 2008 | China U-20 (assist) | ||
| 2009 | Hubei CTGU Kangtian | ||
| 2009–2012 | Hangzhou Greentown (assist) | ||
| 2012–2013 | Wuhan Zall | ||
| 2014 | China U-20 (caretaker) | ||
| 2015–2016 | Wuhan Zall | ||
| 2019–2020 | Zhejiang Greentown | ||
Zheng Xiong (Chinese: 郑雄; born February 5, 1966, in Wuhan) is a Chinese football manager. In his youth he experienced organised football training in his hometown of Wuhan, however this would be as far as his playing career would take him before he went off the study to be a police officer. He would return to football in 1995 when he gained the position of deputy general manager for the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China financially backed club Qianwei Huandao. After leaving the club in 1998 he moved into assistant management and then youth coaching before he received his first senior management position with Hubei CTGU Kangtian and then Wuhan Zall.
Zheng Xiong received organised football training in his hometown of Wuhan with their youth team where he was trained as a goalkeeper. By the time he was 17 he was unable to make the transition into professional football after 4 years at Wuhan because his coach believed that he was too short to make it as a goalkeeper at 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in). Deciding to retire he went off to Wuhan Police Vocational College instead to be a police officer, which he became in the late 1980s.
