Li Bing is a retired Chinese

Chinese people

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 International football player. Li played most of his career in his native China

China

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 for Sichuan Quanxing and was ever present in the Chinese national squad for just under 10 years. In 2000, Li was made a transfer target by Germany club Kickers Offenbach

Kickers Offenbach

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 and was then brought to the club on a short loan deal.

Club career

Despite being born in Guizhou

Guizhou

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 Li Bing would rise to prominence when he established himself with the northeastern

Northeast China

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 team Liaoning Yuandong. While he was playing for the most dominant team in the domestic league at the time he still made the move to Guangdong Hongyuan F.C.

Guangdong Hongyuan F.C.

Guangdong Hongyuan Football Club was a disfunct Chinese football club, established on September 15, 1992 by Guangdong Hongyuan Group and Guangdong Football Association...

 where he was brought in to help with them with their title push, however while they were close they only finished 4th in the 1995 league season. Unable to improve upon their performances the following season when they finished a disappointing 7th, Li Bing would be sold to Sichuan Guancheng

Sichuan Guancheng

Sichuan Guancheng was a Chinese Football Association Jia A League and Chinese Super League Club.Formed as Sichuan Quanxing in 8 November 1993, the football club was the football flagship of western China until Vanguard Huandao surfaced. In 2002, Sichuan Quanxing was sold to Dahe Group and was...

. With them he was able to find a team capable to consistently fighting for the league title, however the best they were able to achieve was 3rd position in the 1999 league season.

Coach career

Li Bing would guide Chengdu Blades F.C.

Chengdu Blades F.C.

Chengdu Blades F.C. is a professional football club based in Chengdu, PR China who currently plays in the 42,000 seater Chengdu Sports Centre in the Chinese Super league...

 to promotion to the Chinese Super League

Chinese Super League

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 after coming in during the 2007 league season, where he guided them to second in the league in the second tier. While he lead Chengdu to relative safety throughout the 2008 league season during the beginning of the 2009 league season they had a terrible start to the season and resigned after only six games into the season.

External links

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