Ji Mingyi

Ji Mingyi
季铭义
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-12-15) December 15, 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Dalian, Liaoning, China
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2007 Dalian Shide 192 (3)
2008–2009 Chengdu Blades 45 (0)
2017 Hainan Boying 9 (0)
International career‡
2003–2007 China 20 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 October 2017
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 October 2012
In this Chinese name, the family name is Ji.

Ji Mingyi (simplified Chinese: 季铭义; traditional Chinese: 季銘義; pinyin: Jì Míngyì; born December 15, 1980, in Dalian) is a Chinese footballer. He spent the majority of his career with Dalian Shide where he won four league titles and two Chinese FA Cups.

Club career

Ji Mingyi started his career with Dalian Shide in 1999 where he quickly made an impact within the team establishing himself with 21 appearances in his first season. Injecting fresh blood into the dominant Dalian team, during his career with Dalian he won four league titles and two Chinese FA Cups.[1] After nine seasons with Dalian where he was eventually named captain he transferred to the newly promoted Chengdu Blades. At his new club he would immediately establish himself as vital player within the team for the next two seasons until at the end of the 2009 Chinese Super League campaign it was discovered that the club had fixed a game during their promotion to the Chinese Super League and were subsequently relegated as punishment.[2]

With the club unable to hold on to Ji, there was speculation that he would join Korean K League side Jeju United FC, however this fell through and he decided to retire from the game. Ji failed to pass the trail with newly established club Dalian Transcendence in 2014.[3] He became the assistant coach of Dalian Yifang as well as the head coach of reserve team of the club.[4] Ji returned to professional football in January 2017, joining China League Two club Hainan Boying as player and general manager.[5]

International career

Ji Mingyi was named in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup where he was selected as back up for Zhang Yaokun and Zheng Zhi in central defence as China came runners-up within the tournament.[6] Throughout Ji Mingyi international career he has continued to be a reserve choice in defence, the following 2007 AFC Asian Cup he was again selected in the squad however did not play any games.

Career statistics

Last update: 14 October 2017

Season Team Country Division Apps Goals
1999 Dalian Shide  China 1 21 0
2000 Dalian Shide  China 1 26 0
2001 Dalian Shide  China 1 24 2
2002 Dalian Shide  China 1 11 0
2003 Dalian Shide  China 1 23 0
2004 Dalian Shide  China 1 18 0
2005 Dalian Shide  China 1 26 0
2006 Dalian Shide  China 1 24 1
2007 Dalian Shide  China 1 9 0
2008 Chengdu Blades  China 1 24 0
2009 Chengdu Blades  China 1 21 0
2017 Hainan Boying  China 3 9 0

Honours

Dalian Shide[7]

References

  1. ^ Seven China Jia A Championships won by Dalian Archived 2009-01-11 at the Wayback Machine at english.runsky.com 2004-03-24 Retrieved 2012-07-27
  2. ^ Chengdu Blades demoted at fifa.com 23 February 2010 Retrieved 2013-03-20
  3. ^ 大连超越增加投入超1700万 季铭义:因家乡球队坚持
  4. ^ "季铭义加盟一方教练组". Archived from the original on 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  5. ^ 前国足队长季铭义加盟海南博盈 复出任老总+队员
  6. ^ Asian Cup 2004 China .:. Finale at weltfussball.de 7 August 2004 Retrieved 2012-07-27
  7. ^ "Ji, Mingyi". National-football-teams.com. 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2019-08-22.