Townsend Qin is a retired Chinese football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player who played professionally in the Western Soccer Alliance and American Professional Soccer League

American Professional Soccer League

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In 1989, Qin signed with the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks

San Francisco Bay Blackhawks

San Francisco Bay Blackhawks was a professional soccer team which came into existence in 1989 as a team in the Western Soccer League . The Blackhawks spent time in the American Professional Soccer League and the United States Interregional Soccer League...

 of the Western Soccer League

Western Soccer League

Western Soccer Alliance was a professional soccer league featuring teams from the West Coast of the United States and Western Canada. The league began in 1985 as the Western Alliance Challenge Series. In 1986, it became the Western Soccer Alliance...

. In 1990, the WSL merged with the American Soccer League

American Soccer League

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 to form the American Professional Soccer League

American Professional Soccer League

The American Professional Soccer League is a former professional men's soccer league which featured teams from both the United States and Canada. It was the first outdoor soccer league to feature teams from throughout the United States since the demise of the original North American Soccer League...

. Qin continued to play for the Blackhawks in the new league. He was a 1990 and 1991 First Team All Star and continued to play for the Blackhawks through the 1992 season. He also played for the Chinese national team.