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| Full name | Tang Yaodong | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1962-02-17)17 February 1962 (age 63) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Shenyang,China | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1982 | Liaoning team | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1983–1991 | Liaoning team | ? | (?) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Otsuka Pharmaceutical | ? | (?) | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1995 | Liaoning FC | ? | (?) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1990 | China | 37 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2001 | Liaoning Liaoqing | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Liaoning Xingguang | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Liaoning FC (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Liaoning FC | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Henan Jianye (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Henan Jianye | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Chongqing Lifan | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Henan Jianye | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Shenzhen FC | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Wuhan Zall | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Tang Yaodong (Chinese:唐尧东; born 17 February 1962 inShenyang,China) is a Chinese football manager and formerChinese internationalfootballer. He mainly played as acentre forward forLiaoning FC.
Tang Yaodong began his football career playing for his hometown football clubLiaoning's youth team and would later graduate to the senior team in the 1983 league season. After several seasons he would later rise to prominence when he would help them win the 1985 league title. This was to be the first of many trophies that were to follow and Tang Yaodong would play an integral part in a dominant Liaoning team that also saw them win the 1990Asian Club Championship. Despite winning another league title he would transfer to a second tier Japanese clubOtsuka Pharmaceutical in the 1992 league season. After only one season with them he would return toLiaoning FC until he retired.
Tang Yaodong would make his senior debut in a friendly againstKorea DPR on 24 August 1986, in a 0–0 draw.[1] Under head coachGao Fengwen he would quickly become an integral member of the Chinese team and score his first goal againstSingapore in a friendly on 1 September 1986, in a 3–0 win.[2]Tang played all three games for China at the1988 Olympics inSeoul,Korea as they were eliminated in the first round.[3] He appeared also in the1988 AFC Asian Cup and help China come 4th within the tournament, however when China were unable to qualify for the1990 FIFA World Cup Tang Yaodong's appearances became limited and effectively ended once Gao Fengwen left the Chinese team.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 28 February 1989 | National Stadium,Bangkok,Thailand |  Thailand | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 2. | 17 October 1989 | National Stadium,Kallang,Singapore |  United Arab Emirates | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification |
After he retired he would take the position of head coach for theLiaoning Liaoqing, the youth team ofLiaoning FC, in 1996 until 2001 when the youth team were allowed to participate in the third-tierChina League Two. However, in 2002, they're forbidden to play in the second-tierJia B after their promotion to it, and as a result they transferred their place in Jia B to a newly created club namedLiaoning Xingguang, which Tang also moved to. He was allowed to stay with the team throughout the 2002 league season to help the team in their transition within the professional league system and took them to a respectable 6th within the league.[4] The 2003 league season would see the team sold off to SVT Group and move toNanjing, Tang Yaodong did not follow them and remained inLiaoning withLiaoning FC where he was offered an assistant position within the team.[5]
After spending a short period as an assistant he was promoted to head coach after Liaoning's poor start to the2005 Chinese Super League season. In his first season at Liaoning he was unable to achieve much success except to stabilize the club and lead them to midtable in his first attempt at managing a top-flight team. Liaoning's relatively poor performance even saw Tang Yaodong willing to step down before the beginning of the2006 Chinese Super League season, however the club stood by him throughout the season even though results did not improve throughout the season.[6] This would continue once more throughout the2007 Chinese Super League season, however Liaoning lost patience at the end the season and with Tang Yaodong's contract up for renewal they decided not to renew it.[7]
On 7 January 2008, new head coachJia Xiuquan brought in Tang Yaodong as his assistant for ambitiousChinese Super League club Henan Construction, however their reign was considered unsuccessful and Jia Xiuquan resigned on 15 June while Tang Yaodong left soon after.[8] WhenPortuguese Head coachAcácio Casimiro was sacked during the 2008 league season Tang Yaodong was brought back into the club as a short-term solution to help salvage the season.[9] At the beginning of the 2009 league season he remained as their manager and surprisingly the team's form dramatically improved. His reign would see Henan achieve their best ever league position of third and he would personally win the Coach of the year award.
On 19 April 2012, Tang was appointed as the new manager ofChina League One sideChongqing Lifan, replacingLawrie McKinna who was sacked from the club five days before.[10]
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