Wang Fei (female footballer)

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

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Wang Fei
王飞
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At the 2015 Algarve Cup
Personal information
Full name Wang Fei[1]
Date of birth (1990-03-22) 22 March 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Dalian, Liaoning, China
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Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Olympique Lyonnais
Number 40
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Dalian Shide
2012–2013 Liaoning Ladies
2014 Dalian Aerbin
2015 Turbine Potsdam 9 (0)
2015– Olympique Lyonnais 1 (0)
International career‡
2012– China 60 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 August 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 August 2015

Wang Fei (simplified Chinese: 王飞; traditional Chinese: 王飛; pinyin: Wáng Fēi; born 22 March 1990) is a Chinese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for French Division 1 Féminine club Olympique Lyonnais and for the China national team.

Club career

After spending years playing for several Chinese clubs, Wang signed for Frauen-Bundesliga team Turbine Potsdam in December 2014. She became the first ever Chinese footballer to play in the Frauen-Bundesliga.[note 1] Turbine's veteran manager Bernd Schröder praised the impact made by Wang and compared her to respected German goalkeeper Nadine Angerer. However, Schröder surprisingly selected departing goalkeeper Anna Felicitas Sarholz ahead of Wang for the 2015 DFB-Pokal final which Turbine lost 3–0 to VfL Wolfsburg.[2][3]

In September 2015 the German press reported that Wang was leaving Turbine for the French Division 1 Féminine champions Lyon, whose usual goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi was injured.[4] In January 2016 Wang terminated her contract with Lyon, only for the French club to demand her return when Méline Gérard was struck down with appendicitis.[5]

International career

Wang played at the 2011 Summer Universiade and kept goal for China's gold medal-winning run.[6] She made her debut for the Chinese women's national team on 24 November 2012 in a 2–1 win against Australia at the 2013 EAFF Women's East Asian Cup.[7]

Wang was also included in China's squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.[1] During the tournament, Wang was described by FIFA as tall, agile, and one of China's "most impressive performers" in the team's progress to the knockout stages. This was despite playing through the pain of an injured shoulder which was sustained in the 1–0 win over the Netherlands.[8]

Notes

  1. ↑ Although Chou Tai-ying, from Taiwan, played for SV Bergisch Gladbach 09 in the West German Deutsche Fußballmeisterschaft der Frauen before the Frauen-Bundesliga started in 1990.

References

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