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Article: Striker Yang Chen might retire from Chinese national team
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 24, 2004
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Striker Yang Chen might retire from Chinese national team
By Sportswriter Wang Zijiang
BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- He became China's most famous
footballer in 1998 after joining Bundesliga side Frankfurt, the first
Chinese to play in Europe's top leagues.
With a handsome face in a gental manner, Yang Chen was also one of
the most idolized man for years in the world's most populous country.
But now, at 30, Yang is struggling to find his form and has fell
out of the favor of Chinese national coach Arie Haan of the
Netherlands. And he considers that it might be the time to end his
international career and concentrate on his club.
"I have talked many times to officials of the Chinese ...