Di You (; born 26 November 1983) is a retired

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Club career

Di You started his professional football career with top-tier Chinese club

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, a football team under the sport branch of the

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. With Bayi he would gradually establish himself as a squad player within the team; however, before he had a chance to further establish himself within the squad, the club were relegated at the end of the 2003 league season and decided to disband. Di would transfer to second-tier club

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in 2004 where he was reunited with his former manager at Bayi,

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. Di's time in Wuhan would be extremely productive and he was not only part of the team that won the 2004

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title and promotion to the

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but was also part of the team that went on to win the 2005 Chinese Super League Cup as well. Di's time at Wuhan would suddenly come to an abrupt end when the Wuhan management did not accept the punishment given to them by the

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after a scuffle broke out during a league game against

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on 27 September 2008 and the club quit the league for unfair punishment. Once again Di would have to find a new club to play for and joined second-tier football club

Shanghai Zobon Shanghai Zobon F.C. (Simplified Chinese: 上海中邦足球俱乐部) is a defunct football club that predominantly competed in the China League One division. Originally founded by Zhu Jun, the CEO of The9 Limited as an nondescript amateur club, ...

at the beginning of the 2009 league season. After a season with them Di had the chance to return to the top tier with Jiangsu Sainty as well as another reunion with Pei Encai, however after only a season at the club Di was allowed to leave. In 2011, he would join third-tier club Chongqing F.C. where he actually won promotion with them, however despite this he would leave the club to join another third-tier club in Shenzhen Fengpeng in 2012. In March 2014, Di transferred to

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side

Shenyang Dongjin Shenyang Dongjin Football Club () was a Chinese football club based in Shenyang, Liaoning and their home stadium is the Shenyang Urban Construction University Stadium that has a seating capacity of 12,000. History Founded as Jinan Fulu Football ...

. On 1 July 2015, Di transferred to

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. On October 13, 2018, Di You announced his retirement from professional football.

Honours

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: 2004 *Chinese Super League Cup: 2005

References

External links

Di You's MicroBlogPlayer stats
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