Tang Yaodong (; born 17 February 1962 in

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), is a Chinese football manager and former Chinese international

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. He mainly played as a

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for

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Playing career

Club career

Tang Yaodong began his football career playing for his hometown football club

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's youth team and would later graduate to the senior team in the 1983 league season. After several seasons he would later rise to prominence when he would help them win the 1985 league title. This was to be the first of many trophies that were to follow and Tang Yaodong would play an integral part in a dominant Liaoning team that also saw them win the 1990

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. Despite winning another league title he would transfer to a second tier Japanese club

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in the 1992 league season. After only one season with them he would return to

until he retired.

International career

Tang Yaodong would make his senior debut in a friendly against

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on August 24, 1986, in a 0–0 draw. Under head coach

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he would quickly become an integral member of the Chinese team and score his first goal against

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in a friendly on September 1, 1986, in a 3–0 win. Tang played all three games for China at the 1988 Olympics in

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as they were eliminated in the first round. He appeared also in the

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and help China come 4th within the tournament, however when China were unable to qualify for the

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Tang Yaodong's appearances became limited and effectively ended once Gao Fengwen left the Chinese team.

International goals

Management career

Liaoning Liaoqing and Liaoning Xingguang

After he retired he would take the position of head coach for the Liaoning Liaoqing, the youth team of

, in 1996 until 2001 when the youth team were allowed to participate in the third-tier

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. However, in 2002, they're forbidden to play in the second-tier

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after their promotion to it, and as a result they transferred their place in Jia B to a newly created club named Liaoning Xingguang, which Tang also moved to. He was allowed to stay with the team throughout the 2002 league season to help the team in their transition within the professional league system and took them to a respectable 6th within the league. The 2003 league season would see the team sold off to SVT Group and move to

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, Tang Yaodong did not follow them and remained in

with

where he was offered an assistant position within the team.

Liaoning FC

After spending a short period as an assistant he was promoted to head coach after Liaoning's poor start to the

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season. In his first season at Liaoning he was unable to achieve much success except to stabilize the club and lead them to midtable in his first attempt at managing a top-flight team. Liaoning's relatively poor performance even saw Tang Yaodong willing to step down before the beginning of the

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season, however the club stood by him throughout the season even though results did not improve throughout the season. This would continue once more throughout the

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season, however Liaoning lost patience at the end the season and with Tang Yaodong's contract up for renewal they decided not to renew it.

Henan Construction F.C.

On January 7, 2008, new head coach Jia Xiuquan brought in Tang Yaodong as his assistant for ambitious

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club Henan Construction, however their reign was considered unsuccessful and Jia Xiuquan resigned on June 15 while Tang Yaodong left soon after. When

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Head coach

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was sacked during the 2008 league season Tang Yaodong was brought back into the club as a short-term solution to help salvage the season. At the beginning of the 2009 league season he remained as their manager and surprisingly the team's form dramatically improved. His reign would see Henan achieve their best ever league position of third and he would personally win the Coach of the year award.

Chongqing Lifan F.C.

On 19 April 2012, Tang was appointed as the new manager of

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side

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, replacing

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who was sacked from the club five days before.

Honours

Player

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: 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991 *

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: 1986 *

: 1990

Manager

: 2009 3rd Place

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tang, Yaodong 1962 births Living people Footballers from Shenyang Chinese football managers Chinese footballers China international footballers Liaoning F.C. players Chinese expatriate footballers Tokushima Vortis players Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics 1988 AFC Asian Cup players Olympic footballers of China Liaoning F.C. managers Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic F.C. managers Henan Songshan Longmen F.C. managers Footballers at the 1986 Asian Games Expatriate footballers in Japan Footballers at the 1990 Asian Games Shenzhen F.C. managers Association football forwards Asian Games competitors for China Wuhan F.C. managers Chinese Super League managers