Wei Qun ( born 10 February 1971 in

Zigong Zigong (, ), formed by the merger of the two former towns of Ziliujing (Tzuliuching, literally "self-flow well") and Gongjing (Kungching, literally "offering well"), is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan, southwestern China. Demographics Accord ...

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) is a Chinese

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coach and a former player who spent the majority of his career with Sichuan Quanxing where he was a defender while internationally he represented

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in the

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Playing career

Wei Qun would start his career playing for the various youth teams for his hometown football team Sichuan before he was called up to the Chinese under-23 football team who happened to call themselves the Chinese Olympic team and were allowed to take part in the 1991 Chinese league campaign where they finished seventh. After an unsuccessful Olympics qualification campaign he returned to Sichuan to start his senior football career however it almost ended before it began when on May 1, 1993, he had an altercation with several men and was stabbed several times. Luckily he was able to make a full recovery and go on to establish himself as a vital member of the team, which soon saw him called up to the Chinese national team where he took part in the

and was part of the team that saw China reach the quarter-finals. After spending his whole career within Sichuan and nearing the end of his career the club decided to appoint him as their new part-time deputy general manager in 2002, however his perceived brash handling of several senior players negatively affected the club and he was loaned out

Yunnan Hongta F.C. Yunnan Hongta (Simplified () was a football club who played in the Chinese Jia-A League who were founded by the Shenzhen Kinspar Group in 1996 and named Shenzhen Kinspar (Simplified (). The club predominantly played within the lower leagues unti ...

for the rest of the season.魏群
at Sodasoccer.com Retrieved 2012-11-21 By the end of the 2003 league season Wei did not return to Sichuan and would instead decide to retire from football. He would eventually move into management and would join the second-tier football club Sichuan FC in October 2008.

International goals

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Team China Stats
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wei, Qun 1972 births Living people Chinese football managers Chinese footballers Footballers from Sichuan China international footballers Sichuan Guancheng players Yunnan Hongta players Association football defenders