Xu Xiaofei (; born March 7, 1982, in

Zhengzhou Zhengzhou (; ), also spelt Zheng Zhou and alternatively romanized as Chengchow, is the capital and largest city of Henan Province in the central part of the People's Republic of China. Located in north-central Henan, it is one of the National ...

), is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Minami Club in the Shikoku Adult League.

Club career

Career in Japan

While Xu Xiaofei grew up in the city of

in the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

, his mother would move him to

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

as a 10-year-old child. He would continue to live and study sports in Japan where he would graduate from university and then start his football career with second division side Consadole Sapporo in the 2005 J. League season. This was, however, short-lived, and he would move to fourth-tier side Kamatamare Sanuki, where he gained more playing time and caught the eye of third-tier teams

Gainare Tottori are a Japanese football club, based in Tottori, Tottori. They play in the J3 League. Their team colour is green. Their team name ''Gainare'' derives from the Tottori dialect word ''gaina'' meaning "great" and Italian ''sperare'' meaning "to hop ...

and then

Mitsubishi Mizushima FC are a Japanese football club based in Kurashiki, Okayama. They play in the Chūgoku Soccer League. History The club was founded in 1946 to provide recreational activities in the war-torn Mizushima area of Kurashiki city. They joined the Okayama ...

, yet none of these moves were particularly successful.

Return to China

Xu Xiaofei would return to China and move to his local football team Henan Construction halfway through the

2009 Chinese Super League The 2009 Chinese Super League season was the sixth season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, the sixteenth season of a professional football league and the 48th top-tier league season in China. Beijing Guoan won their first eve ...

season. But in a medical examination after the 2009 league season, he was diagnosed with

cardiac arrhythmia Arrhythmias, also known as cardiac arrhythmias, heart arrhythmias, or dysrhythmias, are irregularities in the heartbeat, including when it is too fast or too slow. A resting heart rate that is too fast – above 100 beats per minute in adults ...

, then he announced his retirement in his blog.もうサッカーが....
at ameblo.jp 2009-12-16 Retrieved 2012-09-11

Club statistics

References

External links

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j-league #23

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Player stats at sohu.com
1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Zhengzhou Chinese men's footballers Footballers from Henan Chinese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Japan Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players Kamatamare Sanuki players Gainare Tottori players Mitsubishi Mizushima FC players J2 League players Japan Football League players Henan F.C. players Chinese Super League players Men's association football midfielders {{PRChina-footy-bio-stub