Fang Renqiu
Fang Renqiu (
Biography
Fang was born on 11 September 1929 in
In 1952, he was selected to become a member of the China National Sports Association Football Team, which was the first national football team of the newly established
In 1957, Fang was a member of the China national team that played in the 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds. The team failed to qualify after narrowly losing to Indonesia,[1] but Fang was named as one of the ten most popular football players of China.[2]
In 1964, Fang succeeded Nian Weisi as the sixth head coach of the national football team, but was soon dismissed after the team lost a friendly match.[1] From 1972 to 1978, he was the head coach of the Shanghai municipal football team. After a stint in Burundi, he again served as head coach of the Shanghai team from 1981 to 1984, and led the team to win the gold medal in the 1983 National Games of China.[2] He retired from football afterwards.[1]
Personal life
Fang was married to Zhang Bei (张倍).[1] He died on 6 February 2019 in Shanghai, at the age of 89.[2]