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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Have there ever been any Chinese football/soccer players that have succeeded abroad?
I can really only think of one... Sun Jihai - used to play for Manchester City back in the early 2000s. Any others?
Not to my knowledge, no! The only players from Asia that succeeded abroad from what I know were from either Korea or Japan. (!
He he, I said: "players"!
Fu kin ace - Forward, Borussia Munchenhardcock
Cristiano Wumaoldo - Real Madrid
王克 (aka wayne Rooney) - Manchester United
As a fan of the first club to bring Chinese players to the UK (England to be precised), I can tell you we bought Sun Jihai and Fan Zhiyi. Both were successful but Fan stayed with Palace longer. We went in to administration and had to sell Sun Jihai to Manchester City, but, it was Palace who brought them to England.
Both were a success. Fan is sort of a mini cult-hero at Palace still.