Xie Hui (footballer)

Xie Hui
谢晖
Personal information
Full name Xie Hui
Date of birth (1975-02-14) February 14, 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth Shanghai, China
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1992–1994 Shanghai Shenhua
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–2000 Shanghai Shenhua 104 (25)
2000–2002 Alemannia Aachen 50 (19)
2002 → Shanghai Shenhua (loan) 4 (0)
2002–2003 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 8 (1)
2003–2004 Chongqing Lifan 11 (2)
2005–2008 Shanghai Shenhua 61 (18)
2008 → SV Wehen Wiesbaden (loan) 5 (0)
International career‡
1996–2005 China 22 (9)
Managerial career
2009 Shanghai Shenhua (Assistant)
2016-2019 Shanghai SIPG (Assistant)
2020-2021 Nantong Zhiyun
2022–2023 Dalian Professional
2024– Changchun Yatai
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:13, May 20, 2008 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3:30, February 20, 2008 (UTC)

Xie Hui (simplified Chinese: 谢晖; traditional Chinese: 謝暉; pinyin: Xiè Huī; born February 14, 1975, in Shanghai) is a former professional Chinese football player and coach. He is currently the manager of Chinese Super League club Changchun Yatai.

As a player Xie Hui represented Shanghai Shenhua throughout the majority of his career, having several spells with them and winning a Chinese league title and Chinese FA Cup with the club. He also represented Chongqing Lifan and German clubs Alemannia Aachen, SpVgg Greuther Fürth and SV Wehen Wiesbaden throughout his career. While internationally he would play in the 1996 AFC Asian Cup and 2000 AFC Asian Cup.

Club career

Xie Hui started his professional football career with Shanghai Shenhua in the 1994 season. After excelling with Shenhua for six seasons in the late 90s where he won one top-tier league title and a Chinese FA Cup, Xie Hui transferred to 2nd Bundesliga club Alemannia Aachen in January 2000.[1] During the 2000–01 season, Xie Hui was the top scorer for Aachen with fourteen goals in twenty-four league appearances. The following season Xie Hui netted only once in thirteen appearances and because of this drop in performance, he went back to Shanghai Shenhua on loan in March 2002 to gain more first team experience and to keep his place on the China national football team. When his loan finished he transferred to another German second-tier club in SpVgg Greuther Fürth in August 2002, however after only netting only once in eight league appearances for Greuther Fürth, Xie Hui came back to China to play for Chongqing Lifan in 2003.

For the third time he rejoined Shenhua in December 2004 on a permanent basis where he once again revived his career and after two years with Shenhua, Xie headed back to Germany when he joined another second tier German club SV Wehen Wiesbaden on January 1, 2008, on an 18-month contract. When his contract ended Xie would once again return to Shenhua on January 6, 2009, for a testimonial.

Managerial career

After the game he officially retired from football and soon became an assistant manager at Shenhua.[2] He was hired by Shanghai SIPG Football club as an assistant coach.

On August 18, 2021, while Xie Hui was the manager of Nantong Zhiyun, a leaked video of him dining with colleagues revealed his controversial comments towards management and coaching staff of other competing teams.[3] He later was suspended by Nantong Zhiyun.[4] After apologizing on his comments, he resigned from his manager role at the club.[5]

Dalian Professional

On March 19, 2022, Xie was appointed as the manager of Dalian Professional.[6] During the first year of his management, the team was initially planning to play in the China League One (the second level of professional soccer in China) due to the relegation from Chinese Super League in previous season. However, as Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic in the Chinese Super League dissolved before the start of the 2022 season, Dalian Professional was allowed to play in the Chinese Super League as a substitute for Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic for the 2022 season.[7] On 4 November 2023, Dalian was once again relegated after a 3-2 home defeat against Shanghai Port in the final game of the season, and the club was subsequently disbanded in January 2024.

Changchun Yatai

On 17 April 2024, Xie was appointed as the manager of Chinese Super League club Changchun Yatai. [8]

International career

Xie Hui was China's top scorer during the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying stages, but he was dropped by head coach Bora Milutinović from China's final world cup squad.

Honours

Shanghai Shenhua[1]

Personal

Xie's paternal great-grandfather, Xie Ruiying, was a doctor that was sent to Germany to study medicine after First Sino-Japanese War and briefly worked in England, where Ruiying met Julia Traver, an English nutrition nurse. Xie and Traver got married in 1918 and gave birth to Xie Hui's grandfather, Xie Dihua, who once served as a police officer in Shanghai International Settlement.[9] Therefore, Xie Hui is of one-eighth English descendant.

On December 9, 2004, Xie married his long-term girlfriend and Chinese supermodel, Tong Chenjie (佟晨洁), however the couple divorced on June 27, 2011.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Xie Hui". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  2. ^ "谢晖：还不到正式挂靴时 09年身份申花助教兼队员". sports.sina.com.cn. January 8, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  3. ^ "前国脚谢晖酒后言论被偷拍后…". finance.sina.com.cn. August 19, 2021. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  4. ^ "刚刚！南通支云足球俱乐部发布重要公告：暂停谢晖主教练职务…… | 每经网". www.nbd.com.cn. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  5. ^ 世界新聞網. "上海上港中超奪冠原來是花120億人民幣？謝暉酒後吐實". 世界新聞網 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  6. ^ "观察："大连人"聘请上海人谢晖任主帅，足球城强力释放重新崛起的信号？_上观新闻". www.shobserver.com. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  7. ^ "大连人递补重庆回中超，"一悲一欢"的底色还是悲剧-中新网". www.chinanews.com.cn. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  8. ^ "亚泰官方：谢晖担任球队主教练，带队征战24年中超和足协杯". Dongqiudi. April 17, 2024. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  9. ^ ""双重间谍"的潜伏生涯--谢晖：我一直觉得亏欠爷爷". 东方体育日报. May 27, 2009. Archived from the original on February 20, 2023. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  10. ^ "谢晖、佟晨洁举行婚礼 名流云集佳丽众多(组图)". sports.sohu.com. December 8, 2004. Retrieved September 11, 2012.

External links

  • Xie Hui at National-Football-Teams.com