Runze Hao ( zh, 郝润泽, born 3 May 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 ...

playing as a defender. The last team that he played for was Radnički Niš in the

Serbian SuperLiga The Serbian Super League ( sr, Супер лига Србије / Super liga Srbije), referred to as the Mozzart Bet Super League ( sr, Моцарт Бет Супер лига / Mozzart Bet Super liga) for sponsorship reasons, is a Serbian profes ...

. He is the son of

Hao Haidong Hao Haidong (; born 9 May 1970) is a Chinese former international footballer. He currently holds the record for being China's top goalscorer. As a player he represented Bayi Football Team, Dalian Shide and Sheffield United in a career that saw ...

, who is the all-time top scorer of the Chinese national team.

Career

Born in

Dalian Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the ...

, he played in the youth team of

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 ho ...

before he moved abroad in 2013 and joined the youth team of Spanish side

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where he played two seasons. In 2015, he joined Croatian side

NK Lokomotiva Nogometni klub Lokomotiva Zagreb ( en, Lokomotiva Zagreb Football Club), commonly known as Lokomotiva Zagreb or simply Lokomotiva, is a Croatian professional association football, football club based in Zagreb. It competes in the Croatian First ...

where, after spending a season playing with youth team, he was upgraded to the main team, but failed to make a debut. In 2017, he signed with Spanish side Recreativo Granada playing most of the time with their reserves team while there. He also spent half season on loan with Portuguese side Louletano D.C. in 2019 before returning to Granada and being signed in summer 2019 by Serbian side Radnički Niš. He made his debut in the

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on May 31, 2020, with a goal. Hao started for Radnički Niš in the

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quarter final against

FK Čukarički Fudbalski klub Čukarički () is a Serbian professional Football team, football club from Belgrade, more precisely from the Čukarica municipality, that currently plays in the Serbian SuperLiga, the top tier of Serbian football league system, Se ...

on June 4, 2020. He was replaced by Uroš Miloradović at half time.FK Čukarički - FK Radnički Niš
at SofaScore Radnički Niš lost the game 2-3. On June 9, 2020, it was confirmed that Hao was released by Radnički Niš. Amid media speculations that Hao was released due to

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from China, Radnički Niš denied the speculations and claimed that Hao left the club after his contract expired on May 30 despite appearing in two matches the following days after.

References

1997 births Living people Sportspeople from Dalian Chinese footballers Chinese expatriate footballers Association football midfielders Beijing Guoan F.C. players NK Lokomotiva Zagreb players Expatriate footballers in Croatia Albacete Balompié players Club Recreativo Granada players Expatriate footballers in Spain Louletano D.C. players Expatriate footballers in Portugal FK Radnički Niš players Serbian SuperLiga players Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate footballers in Serbia {{PRChina-footy-bio-stub