Fan Zhiyi
Shanghai Shenhua
['pune city', 'cincinnati reds', 'london broncos', 'mets', 'kalmar ff', 'aston villa', 'serbia national team', 'eintracht frankfurt', 'sale sharks', 'hamburg sv', 'sydney roosters', 'fiorentina', 'czech republic national football team', 'mohun bagan', 'llanelli', 'new york jets', 'malaysia national football team', 'blue bombers', 'llanelli rfc', 'sampdoria', 'houston astros', 'jacksonville armada', 'team sky', 'kaiserslautern', 'scarborough', 'kups', 'essendon', 'baltimore orioles', 'detroit', 'eastern suburbs', 'dodgers', 'minnesota vikings', 'indianapolis colts', 'richmond', 'athletic bilbao', 'ryazan vdv', 'wrexham', 'vfl wolfsburg', 'atlanta hawks', 'carlton football club', 'rosenborg', 'new zealand international', 'russia international', 'canada', 'dsk shivajians', 'geelong', 'tp mazembe', 'fijian', 'liverpool', 'genoa', 'kelantan', 'energie cottbus', 'rb leipzig', 'nigerian national team', 'trabzonspor', 'ac milan', 'lokomotiv yaroslavl', 'oldham athletic', 'natal sharks', 'portland trail blazers', 'huddersfield town', 'connacht', 'lokomotiv moscow', 'torino fc', 'chornomorets', 'werder bremen', 'landskrona bois', 'central coast', 'dundee united', 'scotland national team', 'buriram united', 'pyunik yerevan', 'crystal palace', 'joinville', 'san francisco', 'fortaleza', 'miami dade fc', 'brazilian international', 'ogc nice', 'ummc ekaterinburg', 'sandnes ulf', 'brisbane broncos', 'sweden', 'hobro ik', 'swedish national team', 'lionsxii', 'belgium national team', 'portsmouth', 'middlesbrough', 'denmark national team', 'panathinaikos', 'wolfsberger ac', 'england national football team', 'scotland', 'kansas city scouts', 'millwall', 'uzbekistan national football team', 'ipswich town', 'shanghai sipg']
Fan Zhiyi
Fan Zhiyi (Chinese: 范志毅; pinyin: Fàn Zhìyì; born 22 January 1970) is a former Chinese footballer who predominantly played for Shanghai Shenhua in the Chinese Jia-A League and Crystal Palace in the First Division. He was considered a trailblazer in his native homeland when he became the first Chinese footballer to play in the English leagues, joining Crystal Palace in 1998. Internationally, he would go on to play with the Chinese national team in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He has since gone on to become a football coach and had his first stint as manager at Shanghai East Asia.