Li_Chun_Yip
Li Chun Yip
Hong Kong footballer
Li Chun Yip (Chinese: 李圳業) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Li Chun Yip | ||
| Date of birth | (1981-09-18) 18 September 1981 (age 42) | ||
| Place of birth | Hong Kong | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 0000–1998 | Rangers (HKG) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2000 | Rangers | ||
| 2000–2001 | Instant-Dict FC | ||
| 2001–2006 | Happy Valley | ||
| 2006–2007 | Citizen | ||
| 2007–2009 | Telecom | (28) | |
| 2009–2010 | Happy Valley | ||
| 2010–2012 | Tai Po | ||
| 2012–2014 | Happy Valley | 8 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2001–2003 | Hong Kong U-23 | ||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 August 2011 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 August 2011 | |||
Early career
Li played his first league match for Rangers. He was a member of the Hong Kong national under-23 football team. Subsequently, he moved to Instant-Dict.
After Instant-Dict was disbanded, Li joined Happy Valley. In 2004, he was also called up for the Hong Kong national football team.
In 2006, he moved to Citizen, but due to a serious injury, his contract was not renewed at the end of the season.
Telecom
In 2007, Li gave up being a professional footballer and went to work for PCCW. He played amateur football in the Hong Kong Third Division League for Telecom. He was too good at this level and scored 28 goals in two seasons.[1]
Li scored 19 goals in the 2007–08 season to finish second in the goal scorers chart.[2]。
Happy Valley
In the 2009–10 season, Happy Valley recruited Li and appointed him as the club's captain.[3]
Tai Po
After Happy Valley was relegated, Li joined Tai Po. He scored 4 goals for his new club in his first four games, 3 of them are free kicks, helping the team defeat fellow New Territories rivals Pegasus[4] and Tuen Mun.[5] Tai Po's coach Cheung Bo Chun also claimed his performances have been phenomenal.[6]
- 李圳業：冀踢得更好 Archived 23 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Ta Kung Pao. 1 October 2010
- 愉園友賽勝公民3：2 Happy Valley AA website
- 大埔挫天水圍開勝門 Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine Ta Kung Pao. 19 October 2010.
- 屯門派超額外援或判輸0:3[permanent dead link]，The Sun, Hong Kong
- 明报:大埔擒飛馬半場已開4:3 Ming Pao.