Liu Cheng is a Chinese

China

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 footballer currently playing for Changsha Ginde as a defender in the Chinese Super League

Chinese Super League

The Chinese Football Association Super League , commonly known as Chinese Super League or CSL, currently known as the Pirelli Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier of professional association football in China, operating under the auspices of the...

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Club career

Liu Cheng began his professional football career with Sichuan Quanxing in 2000 as a highly regarded seventeen year old youth player who made ten league appearances in his debut season. He would eventually go on to gradually establish himself as a regular within the team until the at 2005 league season saw second tier side Hunan Billows willing to pay 3.8 million RMB

Renminbi

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 for him. Liu Cheng left after only one season to go on to join reigning league champions Dalian Shide F.C.

Dalian Shide F.C.

Dalian Shide , also known as Dalian Haichang International Football Team Shide FC or previously as Dalian Wanda , is a Chinese Super League football club owned by Shide Group...

 where he struggled to hold down a regular place within the team. In the 2007 league season he would go on to join second tier side Chengdu Blades

Chengdu Blades

Chengdu Blades F.C. is a professional football club based in Chengdu, PR China who currently plays in the 42,000 seater Chengdu Sports Centre in the Chinese Super league...

 and quickly see them win promotion when they came second within the league. With Chengdu he would go on to establish himself as their first choice right-back and see the team become mid-table regulars until the team were relegated at the end of the 2009 league season. At the beginning of the 2010 league season Changsha Ginde brought him back to his hometown of Changsha on a swap deal with Song Zhenyu

Song Zhenyu

Song Zhenyu is a Chinese international football player who currently plays for Tianjin Teda F.C. as a goalkeeper in the Chinese Super League-Club career:...

 and club quickly made him their first choice right-back.

International career

In 2000 Liu Cheng was the surprise choice of Chinese Head coach Bora Milutinović's first squad despite the player having little to no first team experience. Liu did not go on to make his debut and after injury as well as a lack of form the following seasons saw his international career all but end until 2010 when Chinese Head coach Gao Hongbo

Gao Hongbo

Gao Hongbo is a Chinese retired football player and a current coach which managed China national football team from 2009 to 2011. Appointed in May 2009, Gao became the youngest man to take the helm in 30 years. Gao was a big name in his professional life as a footballer. He was a prolific striker...

 recalled into the squad.

External links

• Player profile at Sohu.com