Ma Sheng (; born 18 February 1997) is a Chinese

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

currently playing as a defender for

Nantong Zhiyun Nantong Zhiyun Football Club () is a professional China, Chinese Association football, football club that currently participates in the China League One division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Nant ...

Club career

Ma Sheng moved to

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from

Anqing Anqing (, also Nganking, formerly Hwaining, now the name of Huaining County) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhui province, People's Republic of China. Its population was 4,165,284 as of the 2020 census, with 804,493 living in the ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

to study before joining the

Hebei Elite Hebei Zhuoao F.C. is defunct Chinese football club. They were based in Qinhuangdao, Hebei. The Chinese Football School Stadium was their home venue. It had partnership with Brazilian football club Olé Brasil Futebol Clube through youth programs ...

youth training program, where they sent their youth players to study abroad in Brazil. He caught the attention of

Botafogo-SP Botafogo Futebol Clube, commonly referred to as Botafogo-SP, Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto or simply Botafogo, is a Brazilian association football club in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo. They currently play in the Série B, the second tier of Braz ...

's youth training director who kept him at the club throughout his youth development. He went on to return to Hebei and start his senior professional career with them. He remained with them for several seasons until he joined second tier club

on 18 March 2021. He then went on to make his debut in a league game on 1 May 2021 against

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in a 1-0 victory. Moving on, Ma Sheng went ahead to establish himself within the team and helped the club gain promotion to the top tier at the end of the

2022 China League One The 2022 China League One ( zh, 2022中国足球协会甲级联赛) was the 19th season of the China League One, the second tier of the Chinese football league pyramid, since its establishment in 2004. Format On 12 May 2022, the Chinese Football ...

season.

Career statistics

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* 1997 births Living people Chinese men's footballers Men's association football defenders China League Two players China League One players Nantong Zhiyun F.C. players {{PRChina-footy-bio-stub