Hao Haidong

Hao Haidong (simplified Chinese: 郝海东; traditional

Hao Haidong
Chinese: 郝 海 東 ; pinyin: Hǎo Hǎidōng; born 9 May
1970)[3] is a Chinese former international footballer. Personal information
He currently holds the record for being China's top Full name Hao Haidong
goalscorer. Date of birth 9 May 1970
Place of birth Qingdao, Shandong, China
As a player he represented Bayi Football Team, Dalian
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Shide and Sheffield United in a career that saw him
Position(s) Striker
win six league titles and two Chinese FA Cup. Along
with a Chinese Football Association Player of the Year Youth career

award and three Chinese Jia-A League Top goalscorer 1980–1986 Bayi
awards. Since retiring he had a brief spell at Senior career*
management with Dalian Shide and was the General Years Team Apps (Gls)
manager at Hunan Shoking before being Chairman of 1986–1996 Bayi 48 (19)
Tianjin Songjiang, which he left in 2012.[4][5] Hao 1997–2004 Dalian Shide 130 (78)
married former badminton champion Ye Zhaoying in 2005–2006 Sheffield United 0 (0)
summer 2019.[6] Total 178 (97)
International career
1992–2004 China 106 (39[2])
Club career Managerial career
2004 Dalian Shide (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Bayi Football Team
Hao Haidong would make a name for himself by rising through the ranks with Bayi Football Team.[7] On
31 July 1994, Hao was involved in an on-the-pitch brawl with Craig Allardyce, son of former English
manager Sam Allardyce, in Bayi's league match with Guangdong Winnerway. This resulted in Hao and
Allardyce receiving a half-year ban by the Chinese Football Association and thus Hao was not allowed to
play for the Chinese national team in the 1994 Asian Games.[8] While his personal performances with
Bayi remained impressive, the team were not genuine title contenders anymore due to the club's struggles
with professionalism and a requirement that all their players remain active People's Liberation Army
members.[9] With a significantly improved salary and a chance to win more silverware he would transfer
to reigning league champions Dalian Shide at the beginning of the 1997 league season for a club record
fee of 2,200,000 yuan at the time.[10]

Dalian Shide
His move to Dalian Shide would be a huge success and he would win the league title and Chinese FA
Super Cup as well as also personally winning the Golden Boot and Golden Ball award in the 1997
season.[11] The following season, Hao would continue to add to his medal collection with another league
title and more personal awards while barely losing the Asian Club Championship as well.[12] While Hao
would be applauded for his football achievements and was even starting to be known as the "Chinese
Alan Shearer", he would also show a darker aspect of his game after being fined for attacking a player on
15 March 1998 and was suspended for two games. This would also be followed by a year suspension by
the Asian Football Confederation for spitting at a referee during the Asian Cup Winners' Cup.[13] Due to
the suspension, Hao would miss out on much of the 1999 league season, however this wouldn't hinder
him at all and his prolific goalscoring would continue to see him win several more league titles, the
Chinese FA Cup and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup runners-up medal.[14] His stature within Dalian Shide
would be so high that when then manager Milorad Kosanović left the club, Hao was immediately brought
in as a caretaker to manage the team during the absence of a full-time manager.

Sheffield United
In January 2005, Hao was nearing the end of his career and received the chance to play abroad as English
Championship side Sheffield United were increasingly interested in gaining access to a potentially
lucrative footballing market and saw Hao as a symbolic first step in achieving this. Dalian Shide would
release him as a gesture of goodwill following his record of good service towards the club and Sheffield
United decided to make the transfer symbolic when Hao joined them for a record low transfer fee at the
time by signing for £1 in 2005.[15] In January 2005, Hao joined Sheffield United where he suffered from
injuries and worked mainly as a coach in Sheffield's academy. His only appearance came as a substitute in
the 2005–06 FA Cup on 7 January 2006 in a 2–1 loss against Colchester United.[6][16] With no further
opportunities, Hao retired and returned to China.[6]

International career
Hao enjoyed a stellar international career by playing at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and is the record top
goalscorer with 41 goals for the Chinese national team. Although China never made progress into Asia’s
final qualifying round 2006 (finished behind Kuwait), Hao led his country in a bid to reach Germany.[17]
Hao is considered to be the best striker from China in the past two decades.

Personal life
With his ex-wife Chen Yi, Hao has a son, Runze Hao ( 郝 润 泽 ), who is also a professional football
player,[18] and a daughter named Hao Runhan ( 郝 润 涵 ). Hao married former badminton champion Ye
Zhaoying in summer 2019.[6] As of present, Hao and Ye reside in Málaga, Spain.[19]

Political views
On 4 June 2020, on the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Hao Haidong and his
wife Ye Zhaoying publicly denounced the Chinese Communist Party, including for its mishandling of
professional sports, Tibet, Hong Kong, and the COVID-19 pandemic. "Football in China is a reflection of
the country ... it's not the players that make it worse, it's the bureaucrats that damage the whole business
by ignoring the rules", they said. They advocated the formation of a "New Federal State of China", a
proposal supported by Chinese dissident Miles Kwok and American political strategist Steve
Bannon.[20][21]
In response, the Chinese Communist Party first issued statements harshly criticizing Hao and Ye, and then
altered course to expunge all references to them from the Chinese-accessible internet—the Weibo
accounts of Hao and Ye were deleted, and their online profiles on major portals in China – Sina Sports
and Tencent Sport – were expunged.[6] Six days later, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Hao
and Ye reiterated their criticism of one-party rule in China and restated their willingness to advocate for
human rights despite potential political and personal costs: "There are many people who think the same
way as we do but they don't dare to speak up inside the country – and they are becoming less and less
willing to speak."[22]

It is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for a successful Chinese sports star to unleash such a blistering
public denunciation of the Communist Party and openly call for its downfall. Dissidents who publicly
criticize the party or demand democratic reforms often face lengthy prison sentences. Hao has been
outspoken on social and sports issues, but had not directly challenged the Communist Party prior to this
occasion.[23]
Career statistics

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition

Hiroshima
30
Big Arch, 2–2 1992 AFC
1 February United Arab Emirates 1–1
Hiroshima, (4–5 p) Asian Cup
1992
Japan
Al Hassan 1994 FIFA
22 May
2 Stadium, Pakistan 4–0 5–0 World Cup
1993
Irbid, Jordan qualifier
Chengdu
Sports 1994 FIFA
12 June
3 Centre, Pakistan 2–0 3–0 World Cup
1993
Chengdu, qualifier
China
Workers
26
Stadium, Friendly
4 October Colombia 1–0 2–1
Beijing, international
1995
China

30 Mong Kok 1996 AFC

5 January Stadium, Macau 6–1 7–1 Asian Cup
1996 Hong Kong qualifier
Mong Kok 1996 AFC
1 February
6 Stadium, Philippines 1–0 7–0 Asian Cup
1996
Hong Kong qualifier
Mong Kok 1996 AFC
1 February
7 Stadium, Philippines 2–0 7–0 Asian Cup
1996
Hong Kong qualifier
Mong Kok 1996 AFC
1 February
8 Stadium, Philippines 4–0 7–0 Asian Cup
1996
Hong Kong qualifier
28 June Beijing, Friendly
9 New Zealand 1–0 2–0
1996 China international
25
Seoul, South Friendly
10 September South Korea 1–0 1–3
Korea international
1996

26
Guangzhou, Friendly
11 November South Korea 1–1 2–3
China international
1996
16 Abu Dhabi,
1996 AFC
13 December United Arab Saudi Arabia 1–0 3–4
Asian Cup
1996 Emirates
 Merdeka
23 Stadium,
1997 Dunhill
13 February Kuala Finland 2–1 2–1
Cup
1997 Lampur,
Malaysia
Merdeka
Stadium,
2 March 1997 Dunhill
14 Kuala Bosnia and Herzegovina 3–0 3–0
1997 Cup
Lampur,
Malaysia
Workers
20 April Stadium, Friendly
15 Myanmar 2–0 5–0
1997 Beijing, international
China
Pamir
1998 FIFA
11 May Stadium,
16 Tajikistan 1–0 1–0 World Cup
1997 Dushanbe,
qualifier
Tajikistan
Thong Nhat
1998 FIFA
25 May Stadium, Ho
17 Vietnam 3–1 3–1 World Cup
1997 Chi Minh
qualifier
City, Vietnam
Workers
1998 FIFA
22 June Stadium,
18 Vietnam 2–0 4–0 World Cup
1997 Beijing,
qualifier
China

Jassim Bin
26 1998 FIFA
Hamad
19 September Qatar 1–1 1–1 World Cup
Stadium,
1997 qualifier
Doha, Qatar
Kazma SC
10 1998 FIFA
Stadium,
20 October Kuwait 1–0 2–1 World Cup
Kuwait City,
1997 qualifier
Kuwait
King Fahd
6 1998 FIFA
Stadium,
21 November Saudi Arabia 1–1 1–1 World Cup
Riyadh,
1997 qualifier
Saudi Arabia
Rajamangala
27 June Stadium, Friendly
22 Thailand 3–0 3–0
1998 Bangkok, international
Thailand
Supachalasai
10
Stadium, 1998 Asian
23 December Oman 1–0 6–1
Bangkok, Games
1998
Thailand
 Supachalasai
14
Stadium, 1998 Asian
24 December Turkmenistan 3–0 3–0
Bangkok, Games
1998
Thailand
Tianhe
16 2000 Four
Stadium,
25 January Uruguay 1–0 1–0 Nations
Guangzhou,
2000 Tournament
China
Thong Nhat
23 2000 AFC
Stadium, Ho
26 January Philippines 4–0 8–0 Asian Cup
Chi Minh
2000 qualifier
City, Vietnam
Thong Nhat
26 2000 AFC
Stadium, Ho
27 January Guam 1–0 19–0 Asian Cup
Chi Minh
2000 qualifier
City, Vietnam
Thong Nhat
26 2000 AFC
Stadium, Ho
28 January Guam 9–0 19–0 Asian Cup
Chi Minh
2000 qualifier
City, Vietnam
Thong Nhat
26 2000 AFC
Stadium, Ho
29 January Guam 10–0 19–0 Asian Cup
Chi Minh
2000 qualifier
City, Vietnam

Thong Nhat
26 2000 AFC
Stadium, Ho
30 January Guam 12–0 19–0 Asian Cup
Chi Minh
2000 qualifier
City, Vietnam
Shanghai
2001 Four
5 August Stadium,
31 Trinidad and Tobago 1–0 3–0 Nations
2001 Shanghai,
Tournament
China
Shenyang
Olympic
Sports 2002 FIFA
25 August
32 Center United Arab Emirates 3–0 3–0 World Cup
2001
Stadium, qualifier
Shenyang,
China
Shenyang
Olympic
13 Sports 2002 FIFA
33 October Center Qatar 3–0 3–0 World Cup
2001 Stadium, qualifier
Shenyang,
China
Tianhe
3 February Stadium, Friendly
34 Finland 2–1 2–1
2004 Guangzhou, international
China
 Tianhe
18 2006 FIFA
Stadium,
35 February Kuwait 1–0 1–0 World Cup
Guangzhou,
2004 qualifier
China
Siu Sai Wan
2006 FIFA
31 March Sports
36 Hong Kong 1–0 1–0 World Cup
2004 Ground,
qualifier
Hong Kong
TEDA
Football 2006 FIFA
9 June
37 Stadium, Malaysia 1–0 4–0 World Cup
2004
Tianjin, qualifier
China
Workers
21 July Stadium, 2004 AFC
38 Indonesia 2–0 5–0
2004 Beijing, Asian Cup
China
Workers
30 July Stadium, 2004 AFC
39 Iraq 1–0 3–0
2004 Beijing, Asian Cup
China
Correct as of 7 October 2015[24]

Honours
Bayi[25]

Chinese Jia-A League: 1986

Chinese FA Cup: 1990
Dalian Shide[25]

Chinese Jia-A League: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002

Chinese FA Cup: 2001
Chinese Super Cup: 1996,[26] 2000,[27] 2002[28]
Individual

Chinese Football Association Player of the Year: 1998[29]

Chinese Jia-A League Team of the Year: 2001[30]
Chinese Jia-A League Top goalscorer: 1997,[31] 1998,[29] 2001[30]
IFFHS Legends[32]

See also
List of top international men's football goalscorers by country
List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps
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External links
Hao Haidong's personal website (http://www.haohaidong.com.cn/) Archived (https://web.arc
hive.org/web/20170516051623/http://haohaidong.com.cn/) 16 May 2017 at the Wayback
 Machine
Hao Haidong (https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=20748) at
Soccerbase
International stats (http://teamchina.freehostia.com/en/player.php?id=haohaidong) at
teamchina
Player profile (https://web.archive.org/web/20110613164537/http://www.sodasoccer.com/se
arch/player/5F2A6D2C4BA512B0.html) at sodasoccer.com
Hao Haidong (https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/1444.html) at National-
Football-Teams.com

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