Zhang Ouying (; November 2, 1975 – December 1, 2018) was a Chinese

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player who competed in the

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and in the 2004 Summer Olympics as well as the 1999, 2003, and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was a member of the Chinese team that won the silver medal at the 1999 World Cup.

Life

Zhang was born in

Zhangjiakou Zhangjiakou (; ; ) also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the south ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and 0 ...

in 1975. In 2000, she finished fifth with the Chinese team in the

. She played all three matches. Four years later she finished ninth with the Chinese team in the 2004 Summer Olympics. She played in one match. She married an American in 2006, and moved to the United States after retirement. From 2010 to 2012, she coached numerous teams at the San Diego Futbol Academy in Rancho Peñasquitos, California. After that, she coached teams for the

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Soccer Club and was often referred to as "Coach O". Zhang was diagnosed with

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from transformed, malign ...

in March 2018, and died in

on December 1, 2018, at the age of 43.

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1975 births 2018 deaths 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games medalists in football Women's association football forwards China women's international footballers Chinese emigrants to the United States Chinese expatriate sportspeople in the United States Footballers at the 1998 Asian Games Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Footballers from Hebei Olympic footballers of China People from Zhangjiakou San Diego Spirit players Women's United Soccer Association players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Chinese women's footballers Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Deaths from lung cancer in California {{PRChina-women-footy-bio-stub