Gao Feng (

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: 高峰) (born 22 April 1971) is a

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former international

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who played as a striker for

Beijing Guoan Beijing Guoan Football Club () is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in the Chaoyang District in Beijing and their hom ...

, Qianwei Huandao, Shenyang Sealion before retiring with

Tianjin TEDA Tianjin Jinmen Tiger Football Club is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Tianjin, and their home stadium is t ...

. In his personal life was also married to Chinese vocalist

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and had a son together, but the couple divorced in 2005.

Biography

Gao Feng started his football career playing for the Beijing Football Team until the 1994 league season saw full professionism within the league and the club renamed themselves

. Throughout his time at Beijing, Gao showed a highly efficient goal scoring ability with excellent stamina, which saw him as their first choice striker when they won the 1996

Chinese FA Cup The Chinese FA Cup (, abbreviated as CFA Cup) is the national knockout cup competition in China organized by the Chinese Football Association. Its current holders are Shandong Taishan, having beaten Shanghai Port in 2021 for a record seventh tit ...

. His goal-scoring ability soon saw him be included in the Chinese national team and he was called up to the team that went to the

1996 AFC Asian Cup The 1996 AFC Asian Cup was the 11th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international association football, football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in the United Arab Emirates be ...

, where China were knocked out in the quarter-finals against

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on December 16, 1996 in a 4-3 defeat. By the 1997 league season he transferred to top tier side Qianwei Huandao and was part of the team that gained mid-table mediocrity. By the 1999 league season he was also part of the team that decided to move to Chongqing and renamed themselves

Chongqing Longxin Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic () is a defunct Chinese football club. The team was based in Chongqing. The club was founded in 1995 as Wuhan Qianwei before making their debut in the newly developed fully professional Chinese football league system ...

before transferring to Shenyang Sealion and then

, where he retired. Gao Feng took part in the Chinese version of Dancing with the Stars in 2014. On March 9, 2015, Gao Feng was arrested after an assault on a taxi driver.

International goals

Honours

: 1996

References

External links

Gao Feng's Blog

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gao, Feng 1971 births Living people Footballers from Shenyang Chinese footballers China international footballers 1996 AFC Asian Cup players Beijing Guoan F.C. players Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic F.C. players Changsha Ginde players Tianjin Jinmen Tiger F.C. players Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in football Association football forwards Footballers at the 1994 Asian Games