Wang Tong ( zh, c=王彤, , p=Wáng Tóng; ; born 12 February 1993) is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Shandong Taishan in the

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Club career

Wang Tong started his football career playing with

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's youth academy where he impressed then manager

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during many training sessions. He was then included into the first team when he made his debut for the club on 31 October 2010 in a 2-0 win against Changsha Ginde. While he would have limited playing time throughout the season he was part of the squad that won the

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title. Wang cemented his place as a regular in the team's backline during the 2012 season and he continued to be a starter for the club in the 2013 season. The following season he would aid the club by winning the 2014 Chinese FA Cup with them. A consistent regular within the team, he would gain his second league title with the club when he was part of the team that won the 2021 Chinese Super League title.

International career

Wang made his debut for the Chinese national team on 5 August 2015 in a 2-0 win against

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Chinese FA Cup The Chinese FA Cup (, abbreviated as CFA Cup) is the national knockout cup competition in China organized by the Chinese Football Association. The current holders are Shanghai Port, having beaten Shandong Taishan in 2024 for their first title. H ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

* Chinese FA Super Cup:

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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at Sohu.com 1993 births Living people Footballers from Shenyang Chinese men's footballers Shandong Taishan F.C. players Chinese Super League players Men's association football defenders China men's international footballers China men's youth international footballers China men's under-20 international footballers 21st-century Chinese sportsmen {{PRChina-footy-defender-stub